Kenneth E. Corey, Ph.D.
Professor of Geography, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
124 Geography Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1117
Tel: 517-432-4750
Fax: 517-432-1671
E-mail: kenneth.corey@ssc.msu.edu
Web: http://www.msu.edu/~corey/

Research Interests: Global Knowledge economy planning; international comparative approaches to national and urban & regional policy analysis and planning; information and communications technologies - facilitated development; Asia; economic and urban geography

For over a generation, Kenneth E. Corey, AICP has been working on the role of, and planning for technology-facilitated advanced services and knowledge-economy factors at the regional and local scale of development. His focus has been on planning. This has included explicit and continuous concern for planned change, policies and program planning, planning organization and methods of planning that are based on behavioral and social science and spatial-organizational theory and concepts. His approach to these topics and methods is comparative, international and global. This includes the incorporation of networking, linkages and connectivities among the economic factors of production, consumption and quality of life amenities. The venues for Corey's planning and policy work and observations have included Southeast Asia, Korea, Sri Lanka, Western Europe and North America. Corey's research and writing have been characterized by continuing interest for enhancing the reinforcing relationships and interdependencies between planning practice and planning scholarship.

He has held academic leadership and research positions as follows. He has been Senior Research Advisor to the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, Michigan State University. He was Dean of the College of Social Science at Michigan State University. At the University of Maryland, College Park, he served as Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Geography, and Director of the Institute for Urban Studies. He was Head of the Graduate Department of Community Planning and Professor at the University of Cincinnati. At the University of Rhode Island, he was Associate Professor of Community Planning and Geography in The Graduate School.

Corey has been Fulbright Research Scholar at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. He has held Visiting Professor appointments at Peking University, People's Republic of China and at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom.