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David Allen Plane
Dr. Plane is Professor of Geography and Regional
Development at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he has served on the
faculty since 1981, and as Department Head from 1990 to 1997. He is a Fellow of
the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Western Regional
Science Association. In 2013 he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award
of the AAG Population Specialty Group.
His research focuses on population geography and
regional science, U.S. migration and settlement patterns, the role of the life
course in affecting mobility, and methods for modeling activity patterns and temporal
change in spatial interaction systems. Professor Plane is active in many panels
and committees for the National Science Foundation, the National Academies, and
the U.S. Census Bureau.
Professor Plane has published widely in leading
journals of geography, regional science, planning and demography, and is
coauthor of The Geographical Analysis of Population: With Applications to Planning
and Business. “Plane and Rogerson” is both a widely acclaimed textbook and a
highly cited reference work. He currently serves on the editorial boards of ten
scholarly journals.
He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Regional
Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
