Faculty
David Sloane
Professor
Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis
Education
Ph.D. in History, Syracuse University
Expertise
Urban history
Community health planning
Health disparities
Cultural landscapes
Biography
David Sloane, Ph.D., teaches courses in urban planning, policy, history, and community health planning. He facilitates Borthwick George Washington Lecture Series, a USC Price project in collaboration with the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon. His research examines urban planning and public health, health disparities and community development, 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), and editor of Planning Los Angeles (2012), as well articles and book chapters on related research topics. His newest book, Is the Cemetery Dead? was published in 2018.
Selected Publications
- United for health to improve urban food environments across five underserved communities: a cross-sector coalition approach. BMC public health, 22(1), 1-9. (2022).
- 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.
- 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.
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