Gerrit-Jan Knaap, professor of Urban Studies and Planning and executive director of the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland, will present Exploring Alternative Futures for the Baltimore-Washington Region: The Maryland Scenerio Project. The project is based on input obtained from an expert scenario advisory group, a set of loosely coupled econometric, transportation, land use, and environmental models, and the quantitative analysis of several alternative futures for the region.

Knaap will discuss preliminary results suggesting that high energy prices and the continued growth of the federal government could lead to a much more compact pattern of development in the region in the absence of impediments imposed by local land use controls.

Knaap's research interests include the economics and politics of land use planning, the efficacy of economic development instruments, and the impacts of environmental policy. He serves on the State of Maryland's Smart Growth Subcabinet and on the Science and Technical Advisory Committee to the Chesapeake Bay Commission.

A reception will follow the lecture.

The lecture will be available on podcast following the event.
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Location:	1021 Prince Street, 3rd Floor conference room, Alexandria, VA
Price:	free, open to the public
Sponsor:	Urban Affairs and Planning
Contact:	Kris Wernstedt krisw@vt.edu (703) 706-8132
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