Terry Grundy
Teacher, Citizen, Urbanist
Meet Terry Grundy
Teacher
Long associated with the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati, Terry Grundy teaches popular courses on Ethics, Social Justice, Urbanism, and Intellectual History. He has been affiliated faculty in the university's Political Science Department and Honors Division and is recognized as one of the university's most effective teachers. He provides private tutorials in Intellectual History, Ethics, and Social Justice to motivated learners.
Citizen
Grundy is deeply engaged in the work of community building. He is founder/co-founder/board member of several organizations engaged in high-impact community development and civic improvement work in the Cincinnati area. He is a Fellow of the London-based Royal Society of Arts, a global network of change-makers that has been at the forefront of significant social impact for 270 years.
Urbanist
Grundy founded The Urbanists, a movement of civic and community leaders that advocated for an asset-based approach to the revitalization of historic American cities. In recognition of that effort, he was named Resident Urbanist at the University of Cincinnati's Niehoff Urban Studio. In 2021, he joined with community leaders and urban scholars to launch an online conversation series called The Case for Cities, with a book of the same title published by Routledge.