Sy Adler

Expert in Urban Planning in Portland and Oregon

Urban and Public Affairs

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Interim Dean, College of Urban and Public Affairs

Professor Adler conducts research about urban planning in the city, region, and state. In 2012, he published Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land-Use Revolution, a dissection of the political history of the Oregon statewide land-use planning program. He has been at Portland State since 1982. 

Sy Adler
Education
  • Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley
  • M.C.P., City Planning, Harvard University
  • B.A., Urban Studies, University of Pittsburgh