Richard K. Norton
Professor
Urban and Regional Planning Program Program in the Environment
Professional SummaryRichard K. Norton is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning. He also holds a joint
appointment as Professor with the University of Michigan's Program in
the Environment, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. He
earned his Ph.D. in city and regional planning and his J.D. at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, along with master
degrees in public policy studies and environmental management from Duke
University. Dr. Norton teaches and conducts research in the areas of
planning law, sustainable development, land use and environmental
planning, and coastal area management. His most recent research has
focused on the challenges of managing shorelands along the Laurentian Great Lakes. He contributes actively to public
service through community-engaged research and teaching, and by serving on the planning law committee of the the Michigan Association of Planning (MAP). In that role he has taken the
lead in preparing draft legislation for the Michigan Legislature to
reform the state's planning and zoning enabling laws. He has also written
friend-of-the-court appellate briefs to the Michigan Court of Appeals
and the Michigan Supreme Court on behalf of the American Planning
Association and MAP regarding planning and zoning disputes in the state.
Prior to completing his graduate studies, Dr. Norton worked in
professional practice as a consulting environmental policy analyst and
planner in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.
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