David Sloane

Biography

David Sloane, Ph.D., teaches courses in urban planning, policy, history, and community health planning. He served as the founding moderator of the Borthwick George Washington Lecture Series, in collaboration with the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon. He served as Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis for the last three years. His research examines urban planning and public health, health and public and private commemoration. He is author of The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History (1991), co-author (with Beverlie Conant Sloane) of Medicine Moves to the Mall (2003), editor of Planning Los Angeles (2012), and Is the Cemetery Dead? (2018), as well articles and book chapters on related research topics. His newest book, a collaboration with Brettany Shannon and Anne Bray, Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles was published in 2024.

Selected Publications

• Payán, D. D., Lewis, L. B., Illum, J., Hawkins, B., & Sloane, D. C. (2022). United for health to improve urban food environments across five underserved communities: a cross-sector coalition approach. BMC public health, 22(1), 1-9.
• DC Sloane. 2021. Nature’s beauty to industrial pollutant: The Changing perception of the Americancemetery. C. Staudt and K Rothstein, eds., The Future of the Corpse: Our Changing Places and Perceptions of the Dead and Mourning. ABC-CLIO.
• Lowery, B., Sloane, D. C., Payan Dias, D., Illum, J., & Lewis, L. B. (2016). Do Farmers’ Markets Increase the Availability of Healthy Foods in Underserved Communities? Assessing the nutritional environment at 19 markets in Los Angeles. Journal of American Planning Association, 82, 252-266.
• Curtis, J. W., Shiau, E., Lowery, B., Sloane, D., Hennigan, K., & Curtis, A. (2014). The prospects and problems of integrating sketch maps with geographic information systems to understand environmental perception: a case study of mapping youth fear in Los Angeles gang neighborhoods. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 41(2), 251 – 271. Winner, Michael Breheny Prize for best article of the year