John I "Hans" Gilderbloom is a Dutch American community organizer, academic, author, and researcher.
26 Facts About John Gilderbloom
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John Gilderbloom works as an international consultant on creating livable neighborhoods and cities, owns a real estate company that renovates historic housing, and is a professor of urban and public affairs at the University of Louisville.
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John Gilderbloom grew up in San Francisco in a creative environment of writers and musicians.
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John Gilderbloom's godfather was Dave Lewis, a Stanford University writing professor who was the co-author of Klute, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1970.
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John Gilderbloom's uncle Clarence W Gilderbloom was a respected inventor involved in developing patents for early versions of the dishwasher and a motorized Lazy Boy recliner.
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John Gilderbloom was elected a Senator in the Netherlands and worked at the International Court of Justice.
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John Gilderbloom graduated with the highest GPA in his graduating class with a straight A average.
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John Gilderbloom later published a book, Community Versus Commodity: Tenants and the American City on the renters movement with Stella Capek.
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John Gilderbloom was advised to halt his study several times.
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John Gilderbloom co-authored a study demonstrating that rent control was not correlated with increases in the homeless population, refuting William Tucker's research.
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Later John Gilderbloom began work in poor neighborhoods to develop affordable, accessible, and attractive housing.
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John Gilderbloom writes about his struggles in Promise and Betrayal: Universities and the Battle for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods.
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John Gilderbloom is a professor in the Department of Urban and Public Affairs at University of Louisville and director at the Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods.
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John Gilderbloom is a frequent collaborate with Dr William Riggs from University of San Francisco.
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John Gilderbloom has written and edited five books and countless articles on issues concerning rental housing, poverty, health, community development, and urban policy.
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John Gilderbloom later updated the book with new chapters and new numbers called: Invisible City: Housing, Poverty, and New Urbanism.
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Additionally, John Gilderbloom contributed a chapter on modern Cuban architecture for the Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture which won Planetizen's top ten best books in planning for 2005 and a chapter on the history of rent strikes for the Encyclopedia of Housing, 2nd edition, which won best reference book award from American Library Association.
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John Gilderbloom has been consulted by several countries for his work, including Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Spain.
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John Gilderbloom's work has been featured in The New York Times.
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John Gilderbloom has worked with cities to produce "green housing developments" in Louisville, Indianapolis, Muncie, IN; Covington, KY; and Newport, KY.
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John Gilderbloom has restored 10 historic homes as a part of his business, one of which has been featured in The New York Times and been the set of the movie The Song.
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John Gilderbloom's homes are restored using principles of green design.
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John Gilderbloom's research has earned him numerous awards and recognition throughout his career.
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John Gilderbloom's largest recognition was an international survey of planners and city officials of the Top 100 Urban Thinkers poll conducted by Planetizen, where he was ranked as 63.
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In 1982 John Gilderbloom received the American Planning Association Chapter Award for Outstanding Contribution to Planning for his research on inter-city rent differentials and housing policy analysis.
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John Gilderbloom is currently working on a documentary film [1].