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H. Wayne Huizenga
College of Business and Entrepreneurship
College of Business and Entrepreneurship
Adjunct
Decision Science/Marketing/Property Management/Public Administration and Real Estate Development
Fort Lauderdale/Davie
Dr. Shelby holds a PhD in Environmental Studies and Design from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research sits at the intersection of rural planning, economic development, creative economy, and policy evaluation, examining the impacts of creative communities in rural areas.
As an academic and practitioner of community planning, she balances cutting edge research with practical applications, grounded in local experience. Drawing on her own interdisciplinary approach, she encourages students to think across systems and from multiple perspectives to create great places.
Dr. Shelby begins as an adjunct professor in the School of Real Estate Development in Fall 2026. She is also a community planner at the USDOT/Volpe Center, where she leads innovation, research, and evaluation projects. At the Volpe Center, Dr. Shelby’s work focuses on public lands transportation, rural planning, innovative finance, transit planning, and discretionary grants. This supports portfolios with the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and the Office of the Secretary of Transportation. Her work has resulted in reports, case studies, and whitepapers on a range of transportation planning topics as well as learning events, peer exchanges, and web content.
REE 5882 Land Use Planning and Project Design
Remaking Grove in “Becoming Basque: ethnic heritage on Boise's Grove Street”. Eds.
Bieter, John, Dave Lachiondo, and John M. Ysursa: 186-203
Shelby, Jennifer A. 2014.
Market to Market in “Local, simple, fresh: sustainable food in the Boise Valley” Eds.
Burke, Larry, and Guy Hand: 47-58
Shelby, Jennifer A. 2013.
“Re-creating the rural American West: comparing historic and current development of
arts and culture in rural Colorado”
Paper presentation at the Society for American City and Regional Planning History
conference
October 2019. Arlington, VA
“Evaluation Tactics to Understand Local Creative Economies.”
Colorado Creative Industries Summit.
May 2019. Salida, CO
“Creating Opportunities and Confronting Tradition: An Investigation of Amenity Migration
and Creative Industries in Small Towns of the Mountain West”
Paper presentation at the American Collegiate Schools of Planning conference
October 2018, Buffalo, NY
“Creative District Evaluation Research Findings”
Fall Creative District Convening – Building Communities Colorado Style
October 2018, Boulder, CO
“Connecting with Creatives: A Conversation on Supporting Creativity”
Roundtable at the Colorado Creative Industries summit
May 2018, Breckenridge, CO
“Creative District Evaluation: Findings from Additional Research”
Fall Creative District Convening – Building Communities Colorado Style
October 2017, Boulder, CO
“Creative Rural Placemaking: From Cowboys to Creatives in the Rural American West”
Paper presentation at the American Collegiate Schools of Planning conference
October 2017, Denver, CO
“Creative District Evaluation”
Presentation of research at the Colorado Creative Industries summit
May 2017, Breckenridge, CO
“Place Identity and Authenticity: Caught Between Nostalgia and Contemporary Design
Paradigms in the American West”
Paper presentation at the American Collegiate Schools of Planning conference
October 2016, Portland, OR
Shelby, Jennifer, Lindsay, Georgia and Claire Derr. 2022, "Contested identities, contested building: planning for a glocal future ", Archnet-IJAR, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-09-2021-0257
Samper, Jota, Shelby, Jennifer, and Dean Behary. 2020. “The Paradox of Informal Settlements Revealed in an Atlas of Informality: Findings from Mapping Growth in the Most Common Yet Unmapped Forms of Urbanization.” Sustainability 12(22) (Special Issue).