Personal Statement

Professor David L. Phillips has been interested in how data can help inform planning issues. He has taught quantitative methods and information technology applications in urban and environmental planning at the University of Virginia. He has taught the application of Geographic Information Systems to planning problems. Over the past twenty-five years he has collaborated with William H. Lucy on the changes that have been occurring in the nation’s suburban places and cities. He has coordinated the Undergraduate Planning Program. He has been active in a non-profit organization linking volunteers with individuals and inner-city families with need. This helps put real faces to the numbers!