Claude Gruen

Claude Gruen brings his 40 + years of experience in all aspects of urban and regional land use economics to a review of the consequences of American land use policies during the last 200 years. In "New Urban Development: Looking Back to See Forward" he offers remedies to the many unintended consequences of the contemporary land use policies that he dissects. As the Principal Economist for Gruen Gruen + Associates, he has led over 1,300 consulting assignments, including marketing studies, feasibility analyses, economic and fiscal impact studies, the implementation of mixed use land development and real estate asset enhancement projects. Clients served include municipal, county and state planning and economic development agencies, major real estate development firms and the United States District Court. A frequent lecturer, he has served on the faculties of Xavier University in Cincinnati and the University of California at Berkeley. Over the last 21 years, he has written a column for "The Institutional Real Estate Letter," a publication that serves the pension fund industry, as well as numerous articles in scholarly and professional journals. Dr. Gruen co-authored "Low and Moderate Income Housing in the Suburbs" (Preager, 1972) with Nina J. Gruen.