John Keene
Biography
B.A., Yale University
J.D., Harvard University
M.C.P., University of Pennsylvania
Professor Keene's teaching and research interests focus on the legal aspects of city and regional planning, land development regulation, environmental planning and law, legal and policy issues relating to brownfield remediation, and management of urban growth.
Professor Keene has advised local governments on the legal aspects of environmental and farmland protection, and is currently working on a study of urban sprawl and popular attitudes toward "walkable communities" and other alternatives to standard single family detached residential subdivision development.
Professor Keene chaired the Department of City & Regional Planning from 1988 to 1992 and served two terms as Chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, which administers the Ph.D. Degree program in City and Regional Planning. During 1999, 2000, and 2001, he served consecutively as Chair-Elect, Chair, and past Chair of the Faculty Senate of the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2004, Professor Keene was awarded the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was awarded the G. Holmes Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2005.
Dr. Keene is currently serving as the University Ombudsman.
Publications
He is the co-author of Saving American Farmland: What Works?; Guiding Growth: A Primer on Growth Management for Pennsylvania Municipalities; The Protection of Farmland: A Reference Guidebook for State and Local Governments; and Untaxing Open Space: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Differential Assessment of Farms and Open Space, along with numerous articles and reports. His article, "When Does Regulation Go Too Far? The Supreme Court's Analytical Framewoork for Drawing the Line Between an Exercise of the Police Power and an Exercise of the Power of Eminent Domain" was published in Volume 14 of the Penn State Environmental Law Review in 2006.
Courses
Professor Keene teaches Law and Urban Development.
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