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Preliminary results of ACSP's study of Promotion and Tenure at Planning Schools were presented at the ACSP Administrators' Conference in No. Bethesda, Maryland on 24 October 08. [Power Point slides]
Results of ACSP's first Planning School Assessment are soon to be released. Illustrations of preliminary findings were presented at ACSP's Administrators' Conference in No. Bethesda, Maryland on 25 October 08. [Power Point slides]
The paper, "Assessing planning school performance: multiple paths; multiple measures," written with Linda Dalton, Ann Forsyth and Frederick Steiner, is forthcoming in the Journal of Planning Education and Research. [draft proofs]
Remarks on receiving the Jay Chatterjee Award for Distinguished Service to Planning Education.
e-mail: bruce[DOT]stiftel[AT]coa.gatech.edu
Office
Address: Bruce Stiftel, Professor and Director
City and Regional Planning Program
College of Architecture
Georgia Institute of Technology
245 Fourth Street, NW #204
Atlahta, GA 30332-0158 USA
direct:
+1.404.894.9837
reception: +1.404.894.2350
fax:
+1.404.894.1628
office hours
(Fall 2008): Mondays 10:00-12:00; Wednesdays 15:00-17:00; or by
appointment.
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Courses. I regularly teach:
CP6002: Introduction to the Fields of City and Regional Planning, a first-semester course for Master's students. [pdf outline]
CP8883: Citizen Participation, a graduate elective.
COA8520: Advanced Planning Theory, an upper level course for graduate students, views planning as the application of methods and findings of the sciences to practical questions of public
policy. [pdf outline]
Current Students.
Current students working under my direction are:
Mellini Sloan (Ph.D.; information, technology and values in water supply planning and demand management)
Nathan Barrett (MCRP)
A list of my prior
graduate
advisees
and
their
current positions is available here.
Currently, I seek to understand the processes by which government agencies bargain with private sector actors. Observing that governments are often ineffective at multi-lateral bargaining in such diverse situations as environmental permitting and enforcement, land acquisition, industrial location "tournaments", and negotiations with sports franchises, I want to understand and document these reasons and to chart directions to overcome the problems. A paper exploring Tallahassee city land development permitting from this perspective was presented by Nursen Kaya (Izmir Institute of Technology) at the AESOP meetings in Vienna July 2005. In July 2006, I presented a paper examining British development control negotiations prepared while I was at the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University (UK) [Postcards]. In coming months, I hope to expand the range of cases from which data are available, to facillitate cross-sectional analysis.
Adaptive
Governance
and Water Conflict: New Institutions for Collaborative
Planning,
was published by Resources for the Future Press in October 2005.
The book presents analyse of representation, process design, scientific
learning, public learning and problem responsiveness in eight Florida
water resource conflict
cases.
A short summary of the
project may be found in DMC Policy
Brief 13, and a Florida
graduate deans' newsletter
featured the work of FSU graduate
students who contributed to this book. My keynote address to the
2007 Road to Excellence Conference of the Local Government Academy is
based on the core arguments of this book: "The
opportunity of adaptive governance." (3 May 07, Pittsburgh
PA; available as podcast).
I am also active in research promoting the advancement of planning schools within academe, nationally in the US and internationallly. Faculty quality at U.S. graduate planning schools: a National Research Council-style study," appeared in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, volume 24, Fall 2004. This paper assesses nine measures of planning school performance for 84 U.S. schools, and is available from Sage Journals Online. Four comments appeared with this article, and our reply to comments appeared in JPER, volume 24, number 2, December 2004. Continuing work on planning school assessment is underway. The Dialogues books, described just below, include a history of the Planning Schools Movement, and an analysis of the extent to which planning scholarship is integrated worldwide. Chandrima Mukhopadhyay (Florida State PhD class of '10) and I authored a paper analyzing the degree of internationalization among the authors and editors of planning journals. recently published in Town Planning Review 78(5):545-572.
Dialogues in Urban and Regional
Planning 1
was published October 2004 by Routledge
in cooperation with the Global Planning Education Association
Network (GPEAN).
This first
volume in the Dialogues
series
features prize papers nominated by nine planning school
associations and chosen by an international editorial board.
Twelve papers are included, originating on six continents in four
languages. The hope is that publication of these works in an
internationally distributed volume will help bridge gaps in the
distribution and recognition of planning scholarship across regional
and language boundaries. A Portuguese translation, co-edited
with
Pedro Abramo wasl released by IPPUR/UFRJ in May 2007. A
Spanish translation is in preparation by Equinoccio Editorial
(Venezuela). [Reviews
of Volume One]
Volume 2 of
Dialogues
in Urban and Regional Planning
was released by Routledge in December 2006 in cooperation with the
Global Planning Education Association Network. Featuring 12
urban
planning research papers authored on six continents, originally in four
languages, and nominated by nine planning school associations, this
volume seeks to expand access to regional planning scholarship. The
editor's introduction proposes directions to overcome regional
isolation in planning research.[Reviews
of Volume Two.]
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The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), Committee on the Academy and the Profession, works to enhance the strength of U.S. planning schools within the university context. The Committee's proposal for planning school performance measurement has led to creation of a Planning School Assesement Project Task Force, which has presented preliminary findings and is about to release comparative data about US planning schools to the administrators of those schools. The Committee is also near completion of a study of promotion and tenure practices as U.S. planning schools.
Seymour Mandelbaum (U Penn) and I are Reviews Editors of Planning Theory. I also work with International Planning Studies, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal for Education in the Built Environment, and Town Planning Review.
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Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, is Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Director of the City and Regional Planning Program at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research concerns collaborative governance of environmental policy, methods for improving government agency bargaining, and planning school advancement. He regularly teaches courses in planning theory, environmental analysis, and planning dispute resolution. A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stiftel is former president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and founding chairperson of the Global Planning Education Association Network. He is now reviews editor of Planning Theory, and chair of the Association of Collegiate School of Planning’s Committee on the Academy and the Profession.
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