Assistant Professor Harley Etienne, Ph.D.
Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 2007
M.A., Urban Studies, Temple University, 2002
B.A., Sociology, Morehouse College, 1996
Harley Etienne is an Assistant Professor, jointly appointed to the City and Regional Planning Program and the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches in the areas of urban community development, inner-city revitalization, neighborhood change, urban poverty and qualitative research issues in planning. Harley’s research focuses primarily on the intersection of social institutions and their relationship to processes of urban neighborhood change. He is keenly interested in the role that colleges and universities play in contributing to neighborhood-level change and regional economic development. Prior to graduate school, Harley worked in Philadelphia in the public policy and economic development sectors for Greater Philadelphia First (now merged with the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce) and the Pennsylvania Economy League.
Harley is currently writing, “Pushing Back the Gates: Neighborhood-Level Perspectives on University-Driven Change in West Philadelphia,” which is based on his dissertation. That project was a mixed method study of the areas immediately adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania campus that have experienced a dramatic transformation since the early 1990s. This project is currently under contract with the Temple University Press.
Courses Taught:
CP 6052 – Applied Planning Studio
CP 6442 -- Equity, Diversity and Economic Development (Spring—offered every other year)
CP 8863 – Special Topics: Theory, History and Practice of Community Development (Fall)
POL 1101 – US Government
PUBP 3201 – Introduction to Social Policy