Linda McCarthy, Associate Professor

Office: Bolton 449
Phone: 414-229-6405
Fax: 414-229-3981
Email: lmccarth@uwm.edu

Mailing Address:
Professor Linda McCarthy
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201

Education:
Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 1997
A.I.C.P., (Certified Planner, American Institute of Certified Planners), 2000
M.A., Geography, University of Minnesota, 1992
B.A., Geography and Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland, 1989

Current Courses: Spring 2007
Geography (GEOG) 330
M W 2:00-3:15 pm

Geography (GEOG) 742
M 5:30-8:10pm

Office Hours:
Mon. 3:30-4:20pm and by appointment

Research and Teaching Interests:
Comparative Urban and Regional Economic Development and Planning the U.S.A. and Europe
Brownfield Redevelopment
Automobile Industry
Globalization of the Economy

Representative Publications:
In the Dark about Brownfields. Applied Geography Papers & Proceedings, 29, 2006, pp. 292-301.

Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography, 2nd edition (with P. Knox), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2005.

The Keep Jeep in Toledo Campaign: A Lost Opportunity for the Wheels of Change? Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 95(4), 2004, pp. 392-404.

European Geography (with B. Koulov, D. Knudsen, and A. Gosar), in Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century, edited by G. Gaile and C. Willmott, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2004, pp. 679-90.

The Geography of the World Economy, 4th edition (with P. Knox and J. Agnew), Hodder Arnold, London, 2003.

The Good of the Many Outweighs the Good of the One: Regional Cooperation instead of Individual Competition in the USA and Western Europe? Journal of Planning Education and Research, 23(2), 2003, 140-52.

Cities of Europe (with D. Danta), in Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development, 3rd edition, edited by S. Brunn, J. Williams, and D. Zeigler, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2003, pp. 168-221.

The Brownfields Dual Land Use Policy Challenge: Reducing Barriers to Private Redevelopment while Connecting Reuse to Broader Community Goals, Land Use Policy, 19(4), 2002, pp. 287-96.

European Economic Integration and Urban Inequalities in Western Europe, Environment and Planning A, 32(3), 2000, 391-410.

European Integration, Urban Economic Change, and Public Policy Responses, The Professional Geographer, 52(2), 2000, 193-205.