Zenia Kotval

Zenia Kotval (born 1964), is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Michigan State University, specializing in community engagement and economic development.[1][2][3]

Education

Kotval earned her Bachelor's in Architecture (1987) at the Academy of Architecture in Mumbai, India,[4] followed by a Masters in Regional Planning (1989), and a PhD in Regional Planning (1994), at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[5]

Career

Kotval is a researcher and a practitioner on community engagement, economic development and brownfield development.[6] Her research includes multiple territorial contexts, from the United States[7] to Estonia,[8] and in multiple teaching settings.[9] 2003 research by Prof Kotval was pivotal in the promotion of the visions of Frank Lloyd Wright for Pittsfield and how its industrial worker housing shaped the city in particular using Wright’s “Cloverleaf” design.[10]

Building on the work of Sherry Arnstein and Patsy Healey, she advocates that economic development should be seen as a tool at the service of community improvements and inclusion, a role this is particularly important in declining areas as a means to include local populations left behind by the development process.[7][11]

Her work in aid of communities facing economic hardship includes expert support to a 2017 agreement between the Kewaunee School District, Kewaunee County and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and Dominion Energy Kewaunee Inc.[12]

Honors and awards

She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners,[13] a Scholar of the Fulbright Programme,[14] and a member of the Planning Accreditation Board that is one of the recognized higher education related accreditation organizations that accredits planning programs across all American planning studies.

References
  1. "School of Planning, Design and Construction — Zenia Kotval FAICP". Michigan State University. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  2. "Fulbright Scholar List > Zenia Kotval". Fulbright Scholar Program. Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  3. "Zenia Kotval - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  4. ":::Academy Of Archictecure:::". aoamumbai.in. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  5. "Zenia Kotval, PhD, FAICP". Planning Accreditation Board. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  6. White, Sammis B.; Kotval, Zenia Z. (2014-12-18). Financing Economic Development in the 21st Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-70432-6.
  7. Crawford, Pat; Kotval, Zenia; Rauhe, Warren; Kotval, Zeenat (2008-09-01). "Social capital development in participatory community planning and design". Town Planning Review. 79 (5): 533–554. doi:10.3828/tpr.79.5.5. ISSN 0041-0020.
  8. Tintěra, Jiří; Kotval, Zenia; Ruus, Aime; Tohvri, Epi (2018-12-02). "Inadequacies of heritage protection regulations in an era of shrinking communities: a case study of Valga, Estonia". European Planning Studies. 26 (12): 2448–2469. doi:10.1080/09654313.2018.1518409. ISSN 0965-4313.
  9. KOTVAL, ZENIA (2003-11-01). "Teaching Experiential Learning in the Urban Planning Curriculum". Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 27 (3): 297–308. doi:10.1080/0309826032000145061. ISSN 0309-8265.
  10. Levulis, Jim. "Frank Lloyd Wright And Pittsfield: What Could've Been". www.wamc.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  11. Kotval, Zenia; Mullin, John; Karamchandani, Zeenat (2008-11-01). "Partnerships and the Fiscal Implications of Planning and Development: A Case Study of Maynard, Massachusetts". Planning Practice & Research. 23 (4): 461–478. doi:10.1080/02697450802522749. ISSN 0269-7459.
  12. Schneider, Doug. "Kewaunee nuke plant is due $12M in tax refunds". Green Bay Press-Gazette. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  13. "Introducing the AICP College of Fellows Class of 2016". American Planning Association. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  14. "Zenia Kotval | Fulbright Scholar Program". www.cies.org. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
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