Mickey Lauria is Professor of City and Regional Planning. He is the immediate President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. He has edited the Journal of Planning Education and Research and currently serves on the editorial boards of six planning research journals. He has published articles on community-based development organizations, urban redevelopment, and politics and planning in planning, geography, and urban studies journals. His recent research interests include patterns and impacts of housing foreclosures and abandonment; planning practices and smart growth; historical analysis of preservation conflicts; neighborhood conditions and planning issues involving race and class, and planning for growth and change in the Southeastern U.S. He has taught and researched planning issues throughout the United States including Minneapolis, Chicago, Pittsburgh and the Monongahela valley, small towns in Iowa, New Orleans and its surrounding parishes, upstate South Carolina, and in Europe including England, Austria, and France.