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Introduction
Bruce Stiftel is investigating international development planning, including urban planners' roles in climate change response.
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January 2019 - present
August 2008 - July 2018
August 1983 - July 2008
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August 1981 - December 1986
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This report examines ways to better support international students in U.S. and Canadian planning schools based on a survey and focus groups conducted by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Global Planning Education Committee (GPEC). Findings show that international students often face alienation and structural barriers to navigating u...
The United Nation’s New Urban Agenda has created a playbook for planning advocates. It opens possibilities for building inclusive, integrated urban planning in countries where planning has been top-down and limited in scope. Yet it raises concerns about ignoring the power of industry and imposition of global ideas inappropriate to national contexts...
p>The importance of learning from practice is underscored by the analysis in the articles on innovation and development in urban planning of this journal’s thematic issue.</p
The population of the US is forecast to reach 340 million by the year 2050. As efforts by planners to formulate policy and plan at this new spatial scale gain momentum, mobility is often recognized as the crucial element in the successful integration of these spatial agglomerations. Alternative approaches suggest sustainable development may be acco...
This paper explores the following questions.
• How are urban regions in the United States confronting the challenge
of sustainable transportation?
• Are Economy, Environment, and Equity necessarily in conflict with
each other in achieving regional transportation sustainability?
• How can we improve the measurement and implementation of sustainable...
To grow and prosper in an era when university departments are increasingly assessed comparatively and critically by national systems of accountability and ranking, planning schools need data that reflect the wide range of activities undertaken by planning educators. Recent developments surrounding planning school assessment in U.S. planning schools...
The national affiliations of authors in twenty-five English-language planning journals over a recent five-year period are examined in order to assess the degree of internationalization in the scholarship published. Regional patterns of authorship are then correlated with internationalization of editorial boards, national homes of journals, and cita...
SummarySAGE, a proposed method for environmental assessment, focuses on eliciting and incorporating value weights in multiple-objective decision making. In this method, the value weights are inferred from the tradeoffs that people make in choices about alternatives. These weights are applied to scaled scores for accounts based on measurable attribu...
Recent changes in the availability of online literature and the speed with which it can be located could greatly alter planners' use of prior research. We intend this guide to lead planners and planning researchers to more effectively use online bibliographic tools and content. We outline the recent changes, including online electronic abstracting...
Changes in Florida's mobile home landlord-tenant mediation program afford the opportunity to compare two different program designs: one using novice mediators, the other using experienced mediators; one effectively mandating mediation, the other allowing voluntary use of mediation. The comparison shows higher settlement rates when experienced media...
Urban planners are often viewed as weak voices of reason in a violent sea of power responsive to speculators, developers and business interests. Planners' influence seems tied to their ability to command information and to foster consensus among interested stakeholders. Indeed, theories of planning in the past twenty years have focused on planners...
Hailed as a route to improved public decision making, civic engagement, and power sharing in an increasingly contentious world, collaborative decision making (CDM) has become an important mainstay of contemporary environmental planning and policy practice. As described by CDM theorists, collaborative decision making not only improves substantive ou...
Faculty quality assessment methods of the National Research Council study of research doctorate programs are applied to U.S. urban and regional planning graduate programs. Findings suggest that about one-half of planning faculty actively publish and that there is considerable concentration of both publication and citation activity among a relativel...
Faculty quality assessment methods of the National Research Council study of research doctorate programs are applied to U.S. urban and regional planning graduate programs. Findings suggest that about one-half of planning faculty actively publish and that there is considerable concentration of both publication and citation activity among a relativel...
Developing the best professional talent is critical to the success of planning. Graduate school admissions procedures often rely heavily on prior grade point averages and standardized test scores to determine who is allowed to study toward planning degrees. The efficacy of these credentials in predicting graduate school performance is examined. Fin...
The essays in this symposium refect many of the old tensions remaining about planning theory, as well as recent concerns. Arguments about whether planning theory should be normative or predictive are presented. A conception of planning theory as being about good practice is described as rendering universalized planning knowledge impossible. Another...
Much has been written about benefits of using mediation to resolve environmental disputes, however little empirical research exists to substantiate these claims. Using 19 mediated environmental enforcement cases involving Florida's primary environmental regulatory agency, we examine settlement rates, settlement quality, and participant satisfaction...
Author characteristics, manuscript characteristics, review processes, and manuscript review outcomes were examined for submissions to the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER) over a two-year period. Findings suggest that JPER is, to a high degree, an outlet for research for faculty of urban and regional planning programs only and that,...
Die Regulierung von Umweltproblemen stellt eine höchst konfliktgeladene Aktivität dar. Institutionen, die beauftragt sind, solche Umweltregeln oder -regulie-rungen zu entwickeln und durchzusetzen, müssen sich mit vielfältigen Zwängen auseinandersetzen, die von Seiten der Industrie oder von Verbrauchergruppen ausgeübt werden. Außerdem unterliegen si...
Overrepresentation of private interests and underrepresentation of public interests has been endemic in citizen participation in water planning in the USA for many years. Attempts to correct imbalance in interest representation have not been successful. Such failure is explained by showing that traditional perceptions may not be valid. Empirical ev...
Florida's Environmental Land and Water Management Act offers opportunities for negotiation and mediation as regular parts of the process through which appeals of development orders are resolved. The Tampa Bay Park of Commerce is a large multi-use development which came under the provisions of that Act. In the Commerce Park case the negotiation proc...
Rural governments face a difficult task in complying with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which requires detailed planning, land use ordinances, and effective enforcement provisions to reduce flood losses. This study analyzes responses from a national sample of officials in 852 nonmetropolitan NFIP communities and flood management offi...
Rural governments face a difficult task in complying with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which requires detailed planning, land use ordinances, and effective enforcement provisions to reduce flood losses. This study analyzes responses from a national sample of officials in 852 nonmetropolitan NFIP communities and flood management offi...
This book integrates theories and techniques from a wide range of disciplines in an effort to improve the practice of existing environmental impact assessment methods. The authors discuss benefit-cost analysis; land-suitability analysis; checklists; matrices; and networks; modeling, simulation, and resource management approaches; as well as multipl...
Public interests are shown to have been historically underrepresented in United States water-policy development. Reduction of this underrepresentation is shown to be in the interest of both program efficiency and legitimacy of governance. A General Model of Participation in Planning is developed using five theoretic schools: interest group theory,...
Urban planners are often viewed as weak voices of reason in a violent sea of power responsive to speculators, developers and business interests. Planners' influence seems tied to their ability to command information and to foster consensus among interested stakeholders. This is frequently problematic. Planners bargain at two tables. That is, they m...
There is much talk about globalisation and its effects on urban planning. 1 Less in the headlines, but prominently positioned in the view of some planning educators, is the potential for international comparison to improve planning scholarship (Lim 2003; Afshar and Pezzoli 2001). International comparison can take two forms: comparison of practice a...
Symposium held on the occasion of the 11th annual Founder's Day celebration, marking the lOOth anniversary of the birth of Ivan Allen, Jr., on March 15, 2011 in the Biltmore Hotel Imperial Ballroom. Panel discussion led by moderator Sally Bethea, Executive Director and Riverkeeper, Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (UCR). Panelists: Susan Cozzens, As...
