William A. V. Clark
Department of Geography
1255 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524
t: 310.825.1071
f: 310.206.5976
email: WCLARK@GEOG.UCLA.EDU
office: 1255 BUNCHE

EDUCATION

B.A. University of New Zealand, 1960
M.A. (First Class Honours) University of New Zealand, 1961
Ph.D. University of Illinois (Geography),
1964 D.Sc. University of Auckland, 1994

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research over the past two decades has been concerned with the internal changes in US cities, especially in the changes that occur in response to residential mobility and migration. I have conducted both micro scale and individual studies of tenure choice, and large scale studies of demographic change in the neighborhoods of large metropolitan areas. The latter studies examine the nature of the population flows between cities and suburbs, white flight and the impact of legal intervention on the urban mosaic. I have also been particularly concerned about the relative roles of residential preferences and housing affordability in the way in which segregation has emerged in metropolitan areas. I am currently investigating the interaction of class, race and geography in metropolitan areas, as well as continuing my studies of international migration.

AWARDS

Honors Award of the Association of American Geographers in 1987;
Belle van Zuylen Professorship of the University of Utrecht in 1989,
Doctorem Honoris Causis, University of Utrecht in 1992;
Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences 1993;
John Simon Guggenheim fellowship 1994-95;
Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1997.
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2003

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

W.A.V. Clark (2003) Immigrants and the American Dream: Remaking the Middle Class. New York: Guilford Press

W.A.V. Clark (1998) The California Cauldron: Immigration and the Fortunes of Local Communities. New York: Guilford Press.

W.A.V. Clark, Youqin Huang and Suzanne Withers (2003) Does commuting distance matter? Commuting tolerance and residential change. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 33: 199-221.

W.A.V. Clark and Youqin Huang (2003) The life course and residential mobility in British Housing markets. Environment and Planning A.35: 323-339

W.A.V. Clark (2002) Ethnic preferences and ethnic perceptions in multi-ethnic settings. Urban Geography 23:237-256

W.A.V. Clark (2002) School desegregation and demographic change. In C. Rossell, D. Armor and H. Walberg, School Desegregation in the 21st Century. Greenwood Press, pp. 119-145.