Author: Gary Sands

Gary Sands is professor emeritus of urban planning at Wayne State University. Sands is the author or co-author of seven books and symposia, more than fifty book chapters and journal articles, and numerous technical reports and working papers. His research has focused on how local housing markets are influenced by government development regulations, and on the costs and benefits of economic development strategies. Laura A. Reese is professor of political science and the founding director of the Global Urban Studies Program (GUSP) at Michigan State University. She is the editor of the Global Urban Book Series for Routledge Publications. Her main research and teaching areas are in urban politics and public policy, economic development, and local governance and management in Canada and the United States. She has written eleven books and over one hundred articles and book chapters in these areas as well as public personnel administration focusing on the implementation of sexual harassment policy.