Craig T Olwert
Associate Professor

Brief Biography

Craig Olwert is a Professor in Urban Studies and Planning and joined the department in Fall 2011. He has been the undergraduate advisor since Spring 2013 and the faculty advisor for the Urban Planning Students of Northridge since Fall 2011. His research interests revolve around the general idea of city form and sustainability. Past research includes modeling city form, cycling transit users, and retail uses around mass transit. Current research includes resilience plans for cities and Airbnb effects on housing prices.

Craig has always been quantitatively inclined, having developed a computable general equilibrium model of a city for his dissertation at The Ohio State University. During his 2020 sabbatical, he drafted a quantitative research methods book. His application of technical skills have extended to include wildlife and wilderness studies while working for the U.S. Forest Service in Montana and Wyoming where, as a wilderness ranger, he was involved with studies on campsite deterioration across wildernesses and changes and determinants of grizzly bear habitat.

With an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering, Craig was employed by ExxonMobil for seven years as a process contact engineer, an environmental engineer, a financial analyst and as an internal auditor. These positions increased the depth and understanding of bureaucracies and environmental issues.

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