My job has given me a unique opportunity to teach an array of courses at a variety of levels – from college freshmen to PhD students. As the director of the Carolina Planning PhD program, I lead our Doctoral Seminar series, which I have redesigned to focus on areas that are important for both academic and non-academic careers. I also get the opportunity to advise some incredibly talented graduate students in turning ideas and questions into meaningful, substantive, and applied research.
Current Courses
PLAN 721: Advanced Planning Methods. Mostly DCRP master’s students. Spring | SYLLABUS
PLAN 722: Systems Thinking and Modeling for Planners. Mostly DCRP master’s students. Spring | SYLLABUS
PLAN 745: Development Impact Assessment. Mostly DCRP master’s students. Spring | SYLLABUS
PLAN 641: Ecology and Land Use Planning. Mix of undergraduate and graduate students. Spring | SYLLABUS
PLAN 911: PhD Seminar (Spring and Fall), rotating topics: “Academic Publication 101,” “Grant and Proposal Writing,” and “Career Development.”
Past Courses
PLAN 055: First Year (Freshman) Seminar – Sustainable Cities. Spring | SYLLABUS
PLAN 799(2): Planning Seminar: Urban Modeling Workshop. Taught Spring 2008 | SYLLABUS
UP 116: Analytical Planning Research Methods (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Taught Spring 2006 | SYLLABUS
Short Courses
UNC Odum Institute: Agent-Based Modeling: 1-day short course
UNC Odum Institute: Systems Thinking and System Dynamics Modeling: 1- or 2-day short courses
UNC Odum Institute: Academic Publication 101: 1-day short course
Data Matters: Simulation Strategies in Data Science: System Dynamics and Agent-based Modeling: 2-day short course focusing on data use in SD and ABM.
Master’s Advising
2018
Kaley Huston – “From Gas Station To Gastro Pub: The Potential for Petroleum Brownfield Redevelopment through the North Carolina Brownfields Program”
2017
Maureen Devlin – “Before Bike Share: Bolstering the 2014 Bike Plan”
2015
Mikey Goralnik – “Resource Resiliency: preparing rural America for an uncertain climatic future through community design and ecosystem service provision.”
- *Received UNC City and Regional Planning Best Master’s Project Award – published in short form in The Carolina Planning Journal.
Avery Livengood – “Integrating Green Stormwater Infrastructure into the Built Environment”
Ryan Boivin – “Building a Fact Base for Local Decision Support: A Test of the NC Coastal Federation Watershed Restoration Planning Guidebook”
Nate Baker – “The Graham 2035 Comprehensive Plan”
2014
Daniel Hedglin – “What are the current factors that affect risk distribution and structure around emerging ecosystem markets in China? ”
Fredy Grefa – “Do local comprehensive plans support the Kichwa of the Ecuadorian Amazon in reaching their collective rights?”
2013
Tania Jordanova – “Space/Time Estimation of Fecal Coliform in North Carolina using Land Use Regression to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Stormwater Management Policies”
Daniel Widis – “Improving the Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program’s Spatial Decision Support System: A literature review of GIS-based wetland identification and prioritization models” (In review as peer reviewed article)
2011
Jeffrey Rissman – “Characterizing the Air Quality and Demographic Impacts of Aircraft Emissions at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport” (published as two peer reviewed articles).
- *Received UNC City and Regional Planning Best Master’s Project Award – published in short form in The Carolina Planning Journal.
- Published as: Rissman, Jeffrey*, Sarav Arunachalam, Todd BenDor, Jason West. 2013. Equity and Health Impacts of Aircraft Emissions at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Landscape and Urban Planning 120: 234-247 | LINK
- Published as: Rissman, Jeffrey*, Sarav Arunachalam, Matt Woody, Jason West, Todd BenDor, H. Wong, and F. Binkowski. 2013. An Enhanced Sub-grid Scale Approach to Characterize Air Quality Impacts of Aircraft Emissions at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 13: 9285–9302 | LINK (Free – Open Access)
Kathleen Oppenheimer – “Oh the Huge Manatee! Biofouling Poses Sticky Problems for Manatees that Require Attention Under the Federal Endangered Species Act”
- Published as: Berkey, Kathleen Oppenheimer, and Todd BenDor. 2012. A Comprehensive Solution to the Marine Biofouling Problem for the Endangered Florida Manatee and other Species. Environmental Law 42(2):415-467 | LINK (Free – Open Access).
- Also published as: Berkey, Kathleen Oppenheimer and Todd K. BenDor. 2013. A Comprehensive Solution to the Biofouling Problem for the Endangered Florida Manatee & Other Species. Planning and Law (Summer 2013): 7. Planning and Law Division of the American Planning Association.
Dylan Sandler – “Assessing the Disaster Recovery Planning Capacity of the State of North Carolina”
2010
Lyle Leitelt – “Developing a Solar Energy Potential Map for Chapel Hill, NC” (to be published as Planning Advisory Service Memo)
- Published as: Leitelt, Lyle and Todd BenDor. 2010. Developing a Solar Energy Potential Map for Chapel Hill, NC. Planning Advisory Service Memo. (November/December 2010: http://www.planning.org/pas/memo/2010/nov/)
Katherine Hebert – “Keeping it Green: A Study of open Space Conservation Efforts in the Triangle”
Aaron Bland – “Review of University Policies for Sustainability at UNC-Chapel Hill”
Megan Culler – “Recreation, Tourism Development, and Watershed Protection in the Dan River Basin”
2009
Hannah Berg – “Retrofitting Solutions for Urban Stormwater Runoff: A case study of the Jordan Nutrient Strategy”
- Published as: Berg, Hannah and Todd K. BenDor. A Case Study of Form-Based Solutions for Watershed Protection. Environmental Management 46(3):436-51. | LINK.
Nora Lenahan – “Evaluation of Studies Related to Urban Growth and Land Use Models to Incorporate into the Development of a Sustainable Eastern North Carolina”
- Published as: BenDor, Todd K., Philip Berke, Dave Salvesen, Yan Song, and Nora Lenahan. 2011. Assessing Local Government Capacity to Manage and Model Military-Induced Growth in Eastern North Carolina. Planning Practice and Research26(5):531-553 | LINK
Chandler Van Schaack – “Can Town and Country Both be Green? A Comparative Study of Green Building Policies and Regulations in Rural Versus Urban Counties in North Carolina.”
- Published as: Van Schaack, Chandler and Todd K. BenDor. 2011. A Comparative Study of Green Building in Urban and Rural North Carolina. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 54(8):1125-1147 | LINK
- See op-ed: BenDor, Todd and Chandler Van Schaack. 2010. Greener building for a growing rural NC,” Op-Ed in Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC: April 20, 2010). [Also Online]: http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100419033
Audrey Stewart – “Examining North Carolina’s Environmental Enhancement Program from the Perspectives of Land Use Planning and Social Equity”
- Published as: BenDor, Todd K. and Audrey May Stewart. 2011. Land Use Planning and Social Equity in North Carolina’s Compensatory Wetland and Stream Mitigation Programs. Environmental Management 47(2):239-253 | LINK
2008
Zoe Hamstead – “Water Quality Trading in the Neuse River Basin: A Case Study of the Neuse River Compliance Association”
- Published as: Hamstead, Zoe and Todd K. BenDor. Nutrient Trading for Enhanced Water Quality: A Case Study of North Carolina’s Neuse River Compliance Association. Environment and Planning: C 28(1):1-17. | LINK.