Professor Hollander is interested in the role of planning and public policy in managing land use and environmental changes associated with economic decline and shrinking cities. He also studies the intersection between technology and planning using virtual, Internet-based communities as laboratories. He has worked in the areas of brownfields redevelopment, sustainability indicators, eco-industrial development, smart decline, and military base reuse. Professor Hollander has written over 50 articles, book chapters, and reports on these topics including three books: "Polluted, and Dangerous: America's Worst Abandoned Properties and What Can Be Done About Them" (University of Vermont Press, 2009) (click here to watch Professor Hollander discussing the book on C-SPAN.) "Principles of Brownfield Regeneration: Cleanup, Design, and Reuse of Derelict Land", with Harvard professor Niall Kirkwood and UEP alum Julia Gold (Island Press, 2010), and "Sunburnt cities: The Great Recession, Depopulation and Urban Planning in the American Sunbelt" (Routledge, 2011). He is regularly called upon as an expert for a variety of media sources on planning and policy issues, including The New York Times, TIME Magazine, USA Today, NPR, and Slate Magazine.