Brian Godfrey
Office: Ely Hall 116
Ext: 5544
Email: godfrey@vassar.edu
Brian Godfrey specializes in comparative urban and regional studies. Favoring a historical-geographical approach, he focuses especially on the social and spatial evolution of cities in the Americas. His interests also include global city-regions, community and neighborhood change, urban redevelopment, and sustainable development. He has carried out research in both the United States and Latin America, including extensive fieldwork in Brazil and the Amazon Basin. In addition to his work as a geographer, he participates in Vassar's multidisciplinary programs in Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies, and Urban Studies.
Most Recent Publications
2003: "Barrio under Siege: Latino Sense of Place in San Francisco." Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places, edited by Daniel Arreola, Austin: University of Texas Press (at press).
2003: "Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Americas: A Historical-Geographical Approach to Urban Morphology." Ciudades y Urbanismo en las Americas [Cities and Urbanism in the Americas], edited by Robert Kent, Publicacions de la Universitat Jaime I, Barcelona, Spain (at press).
2003: "Cities of South America." Contemporary World Urbanization (3rd edition), edited by S.D. Brunn, J.F. Williams, and D.J. Zeigler. Roman and Littlefield Publishers (Co-authored with Maureen Hayes-Mitchell; at press).
2002: "Waterfronts of New York State." New York State Encyclopedia, Syracuse University Press (at press).
2002: "Tragedy and Transformation in New York City." Geographical Review 92 (at press).
2001: "Redeveloping the Manhattan Waterfront." From the Hudson to the Hamptons: Snapshots of the New York Metropolitan Area, pp. 49-60, edited by I.M. Miyares, M. Pavlovskaya, and G.A. Pope. New York: Association of American Geographers.
1997: Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization ofthe Brazilian Amazon. New York: Columbia University Press, 429 p. (Co-authored with John O. Browder; ISBN 0-231-10654-8 cloth; ISBN 0-231-10655-6 pbk.)