Stefan Chavez-Norgaard

Scrivner Institute of Public Policy

Public Policy

Center for Community Engagement to Advance Scholarship and Learning (CCESL)

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2026. “Contesting Urban Geopolitical Hegemony through Local-Level Land-Use Regulation.” Urban Geography. Under review.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2026. “Social Constructivism in Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Planning: Social Actors and Their Contestations in Reshaping Denver’s East Area.” Urban Studies. Revise & Resubmit.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2024. "Repurposing Racial Modernism: Specters of Planning's Past, a Contested Present, and Alternative Planning Futures." Journal of Planning Literature. OnlineFirst: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/088541222412563.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2024. "Place Renaming, Jurisdictional Integration, and Political Representation: Lessons from South Africa." Planning Perspectives. OnlineFirst: 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2024.2324010.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2023. "A Narrow View of Planning, with Enduring Consequences: The Case of California High-Speed Rail." In Interface: Resistance and Response in Planning, Susan S. Fainstein and John Forester, eds. Planning Theory and Practice. 24(2): 264-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2023.2190681.

Meyer, Miranda and Stefan Norgaard. 2022. "Mnemonic Land War: Memory Constellations Through Lebanon and South Africa." Memory Studies, 15(6): 1393-1405. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221133516.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2022. "From 'Citizen Jane' to an Institutional History of Power and Social Change: Problematizing Urban Planning's Jane Jacobs Historiography." Journal of Planning History, 22(2): 95-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/15385132211070512.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2022. "Planning, Violence, and Crisis in Sociohistorical Perspective: Crime, Capital, Commodities, and Cartelization in Tancí­taro, Michoacán." Critical Planning, 25: 147-168. https://doi.org/10.5070/CP825051413.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2021. "Violence as a Genre of Urban Life: Urban Sustainability and (in)Security in South African Cities." Journal of Urban Affairs, 45(3): 630-646. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2021.1977140.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2021. "Modernization through Capitalization: The Hidden costs of Ethiopia's Gibe III Dam and NESTown Initiative." Human Geography, 14(3): 381-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786219991.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2026 (Expected). “Cataloguing Toward a Place-Based Atlas: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene in Biosphere 2.” In: Urban Humanities 2: An (Un)Volume on Place, Pedagogy, and Practice. Jonathan Banfill, Jacqueline Barrios, Matthew Bernstine, Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, Aaron Shkuda, Jonathan Stitelman, Gus Wendel, and Kenny H. Wong, eds. New York and London: Routledge. Forthcoming.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2025. “Bottom-up Governance for Resilient Urban Futures? Intersections and Tensions from Mahikeng, South Africa.” In Resilient Futures for Small and Medium-Sized Cities. Pp. 359–374. Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Asare Okyere, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Stephen Leonard Mensah, and Matthew Abunyewah, eds. New York and London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003588801.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2024. "Chapter 10: Speculative Desire and Residential Reappropriation: Johannesburg's Ponte City from Apartheid to the Present." In In Whose Place? Confronting Vestiges of Colonialism and Apartheid. Ali Hlongwane, Hilton Judin and Arianna Lissoni, eds. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. https://jacana.co.za/product/in-whose-place-confronting-vestiges-of-colonialism-and-apartheid/.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2023. "Chapter 11: On the Need for Sustainable Digital Urban Infrastructure in 21st Century South African Cities." In Reimagining Urban Planning in Africa. Cobbinah, Patrick B. and Eric Gaisie, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/reimagining-urban-planning-africa.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan, and Miranda Meyer. 2025. ‘“Introduction to the Special Forum: Remembering Territory, Territorializing Memory,’ In: Territorial Memory: Political Interventions, Spatial Contestations.” GeoHumanities. Vol. 11(2): 245–253. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2025.2514275.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan, Leah Montange, Jah Sayers, and Megan Ybarra. 2022. "Introduction:' Making Abolition in Geography." Society + Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/forums/making-abolition-in-geography.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2024. "Review of: Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory." Journal of Cultural Geography. 41(2): 209-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2024.2357890.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2023. “Review of: Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898–1940 by Sarah Deutsch.” Historical Geography. Vol. 51, 73–76. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/963914.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2023. "Review of: America's Frozen Neighborhoods: The Abuse of Zoning, by Robert C. Ellickson." Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA). 89(4): 598-599. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2023.2206325.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2022. "Review: The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era, by Howard Gillette, Jr." Journal of the American Planning Association, 89(1): 151-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2022.2109927.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2021. "Review of: Safari Nation, by Jacob Dlamini." Historical Geography. Vol. 49. 84-87. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/896239.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan, Jennifer Greenfield, and Kaitlyn Sims. 2025. “Colorado Cash Dividend Pilot Program Parameters, Costs, and Potential Benefits.” A white paper prepared by the Scrivner Institute of Public Policy produced for Thinking Forward LLC and the Denver Basic Income Project. December. Available at: https://korbel.du.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Scrivner_Colorado_Cash_Dividend_White_Paper_December_2025.pdf.

Casey, Alex, Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, Susan Daggett, Arian Dehnow, and Luke Teater. 2025. “Examining Relationships between Eliminating Parking Minimums and New Housing Construction Using a Terner Housing Simulator Tool.” A white paper produced by the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Scrivner Institute of Public Policy, and TernerLabs. Available at: https://www.law.du.edu/sites/default/files/2025-07/Examining%20Relationships%20between%20Eliminating%20Parking%20Minimums%20and%20New%20Housing%20Construction%20Using%20a%20Terner%20Housing%20Simulator%20Tool%20-%20August%202025%20r2.pdf .

Norgaard, Stefan and Victor Chen. 2023. "Denver, CO" and "Pueblo, CO." Essays on City Histories of Redlining. Support from the American Council of Learned Societies Mapping Inequality Project. Available at: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/map/CO/Pueblo/context and https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/map/CO/Denver/context.

Norgaard, Stefan et al. 2020. "In The Weeds: Securing a Grass-Mowing Contract in Stockton, CA"; "You Get What You Pay For: Reforming Procurement in Naperville, Illinois"; and "In The Green: Negotiating Rail Expansion in Somerville, MA." Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. Cases each include written research manuscript, educator and practitioner teaching guides, and slideshows. 22 June. https://www.cityleadership.harvard.edu/cases/negotiation-teaching-case-set.

Scott, Amy. 2026. “To Spur More Housing Construction, Denver Changed Its Parking Rules.” Marketplace. September 2. Accessed September 4, 2026. https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/09/02/denver-changed-parking-rule-to-spur-more-housing. [Interviewed and story-segment subject].

Greenfield, Jennifer C., Kaitlyn Sims, and Stefan Chavez-Norgaard. 2025. “A Colorado Guaranteed Income Program Could Help Families, but the Costs are High.” The Conversation. 12 December. Available at: https://theconversation.com/a-colorado-guaranteed-income-program-could-help-families-but-the-costs-are-high-269082.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan and Susan Daggett. 2025. “Denver Study Shows Removing Parking Requirements Results in More Affordable Housing Being Built.” The Conversation. 16 October. Available at: https://theconversation.com/denver-study-shows-removing-parking-requirements-results-in-more-affordable-housing-being-built-263889.

Slay, Elisabeth. 2025. “In Denver, Simulator-Run Study Says Parking Rule Change Could Boost Home Construction by 12.5%.” November 5. Available at: https://www.homes.com/news/in-denver-simulator-run-study-says-parking-rule-change-could-boost-home-construction-by-12-5/1545357744/. Quoted.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2025. “From West Harlem to Manhattanville: Columbia University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer.” Progressive City: Radical Alternatives. Part of Progressive City’s “Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer” series. September 30. https://progressivecity.net/from-west-harlem-to-manhattanville-columbia-university-as-planner-occupier-and-developer/.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan, Katharina Liesenberg, and Michael Lucas. 2025. “Problem-Solving at the Community Scale: A Deweyan Approach to the Democratic Practices of Minoritized Groups within the United States, South Africa, and Australia.” Ash Center Occasional Paper Series. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. 1–30. Available at: https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/problem-solving-at-the-community-scale-a-deweyan-approach-to-the-democratic-practices-of-minoritized-groups-within-the-united-states-south-africa-and-australia/.

Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2024. "Grover Cleveland (1885-1889, 1893-1897): Regulating Railroads and Intervening in Labor Disputes." The Eno Center for Transportation. 16 August. https://enotrans.org/article/grover-cleveland-1885-1889-1893-1897-regulating-railroads-and-intervening-in-labor-disputes/.

Moreno, Juan, Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, and Mia Winther-Tamaki. 2023. "Mesh Together." Urban Omnibus. 4 May. https://urbanomnibus.net/2023/05/mesh-together/.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2021. "Transformations and Continuities: Historicizing America's National Interest in Cities." Columbia GSAPP URBAN Magazine. December. https://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/reader/823-urban-mag-fall-2021/#reader-anchor-2.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2018. "Distant Neighbors: Innovative Approaches to Development across Geographies." The Harvard Kennedy School Review. Cambridge, MA: Vol. 18: 153-162. https://studentreview.hks.harvard.edu/distant-neighbors-innovative-approaches-to-development-across-geographies/.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2018. "In South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa Can Save the ANC." The Harvard Kennedy School Review. 30 March. https://studentreview.hks.harvard.edu/in-south-africa-cyril-ramaphosa-can-save-the-anc/.

Norgaard, Stefan. 2016. "Why We Need to Build Just and Inclusive Cities." The Ford Foundation Equals Change Blog. 10 June. https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/why-we-need-to-build-just-and-inclusive-cities/."