Jesus J. Lara

Jesus J. Lara is an Associate Professor in the City and Regional Planning Section at the Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning from Arizona State University (2006), and prior roles include Assistant Professor at Knowlton (2007-2013) and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico (2007). His research focuses on sustainable urban design, Latino Urbanism, and community development, with a particular emphasis on emergent immigrant communities and pedagogic approaches to urban revitalization.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, California State Polytechnic University (1994)
• Master’s in Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Southern California (2001)
• Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning, Arizona State University (2006)

Research Interests:

• Sustainable urban design practices
• Cultural resiliency in placemaking
• Sociocultural influences on urban planning
• Community development via service-learning

Awards:

• Fulbright Fellow (Delft University of Technology & Wageningen University, 2003-2004)

His work includes co-editing Remaking Metropolis: Global Challenges of the Urban Landscape (2012) and authoring Latino Placemaking and Planning (2018). He has also curated literature on Latino Urbanism for Oxford Bibliographies and served as a visiting professor at Bauhaus Universität, Weimar (2014-2015).