Rex LaMore
- Director, Senior Specialist
- Environmental Planning, Circular Economy, Domicology, Community Development, Economic Development
- Center for Community and Economic Development
- Urban and Regional Planning Program
WEBSITE
https://ced.msu.edu/about-cced/staff/rex-lamore
BIOGRAPHY
Rex LaMore is Director of Michigan State University’s Center for Community Economic Development, and an affiliated member of the faculty in the Urban and Regional Planning Program. Dr. LaMore has over 40 years of experience in Community and Economic Development and has focused his career on the challenges of revitalizing distressed communities and promoting equitable and sustainable development. https://ced.msu.edu/
His teaching encompassed over 20 years of teaching in environmental planning, urban policy, ethics and the field-based planning practicum course that brought students and community partners together in community and economic development projects. In the fall of 2024, he is co-teaching MSU’s first honors college section on Circular Economy.
He is the founding director of the U.S. Department of Commerce, EDA University Center at Michigan State University, which co-creates, disseminates, and applies innovative economic development tools, models, policies, and practices and is the founder of the “Science of Domicology” a fundamentally new conception of the built environment and the circular life cycle of structures. https://domicology.msu.edu/
In 2022-23 Dr. LaMore and a team of researchers completed a feasibility study on institutional investments in community and economic development that advance community revitalization in distressed communities. More recently Dr. LaMore has provided leadership in advancing circular economy research, outreach and instruction at MSU.
Dr. LaMore received his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
AREA OF EXPERTISE
- Private property abandonment
- Arts and culture in entrepreneurial creative capacity
- Sustainability in community planning and development