H.V. Savitch, Brown and Williamson Distinguished
Research Professor, School of Urban and Public Affairs, University
of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Hank Savitch is a former co-editor at the Journal of Urban Affairs and former President
of the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science
Association. He has published thirteen books,
monographs or edited editions on various aspects of urban development, public
policy and regional governance. His co
authored volume, Cities in the International Marketplace (Princeton
University Press) received the best book award in the urban field by the
American Political Science Association and is translated into Spanish as Ciudades en el Mercado Internacional. His most recent work consists of a multi-authored
volume, Struggling Giants: City-Region Governance in London,
New York, Paris and Tokyo (2012, University of Minnesota Press) as well as an authored article
titled, “Neighborhood Decline and
Regrowth: Forging the French Connection” (Urban Affairs Review, November 2011). His more than 80 articles have appeared in leading
journals, collected works and research outlets.
Professor Savitch has received numerous awards both in
the United States and abroad. He served as a Visiting Scholar at the London
School of Economics (United Kingdom) as well as being named a Lady Davis Fellow
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). He has been the recipient of awards
which has allowed him to do extensive research in France for more than 20
years. These research assignments in France include
an award by the National
Center for Scientific Research (Bordeaux, France) and a Fulbright award at the
Maison Mediterranean des Sciences de l’Homme (Aix-en-Provence, France). Most
recently Savitch was a Fulbright Scholar at the University
of Chile, in Santiago.
Savitch has also served as a consultant to former mayor
of New York City, David Dinkins, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development, the Mayors’ Urban Summit and the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development.