Professor Hollander studies how cities and regions manage, design, and plan for change and the cognitive, health, and social dimensions of community well-being.
As the director of the Urban Attitudes Lab, Hollander leads research at the intersection between technology, planning, and design through social media data analysis and psychological research.
Professor Hollander has written eleven books and over 75 articles, book chapters, and reports on urban planning, community design, legacy cities, spatial data analytics, brownfields, and real estate development, including Urban Social Listening: Potential and Pitfalls for Using Microblogging Data in Studying Cities, An Ordinary City: Planning for Growth and Decline in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Urban Experience and Design, Supporting Shrinkage,, and the 2023 books The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner's Guide to Settling the Red Planet and Buildings for People: Responsible Real Estate Development and Planning.
He serves as an Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Planning Education and Research and on the Editorial Boards of several other journals.
He is regularly called upon as an expert for a variety of media sources on planning and policy issues, including:
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RECENT WORK
You can view a portfolio of urban planning and design projects he has led, working with Tufts students. He hosts an Apple podcast “Cognitive Urbanism”, a Substack , and produces the web series “Hubbub"