Schedule of Weekly Readings (subject to additions/substitutions)
Location of readings: Books available electronically via ebrary are labeled. If source not listed, the reading is located in the ctools resources folder.

Central Questions for the Course include:  

• What is a region? How do regional communities differ from either local or national communities?
• What are the arguments for and against greater planning and coordination at the regional scale?
• How does the regional approach differ for land use planning, transportation planning, resource management, and economic development? 
• Which is more effective:  single-use regional plans or integrated approaches? 
• How does the rise of semi-autonomous public authorities, such as port authorities, act as a model of regional planning? 
• How do regional authorities relate to local and state agencies? 
• Who are the largest boosters and opponents of regional management?
• Are some planning issues (e.g., transportation, water resources) better suited for regional-level coordination than others (e.g., welfare policy, housing)? 
• How well can regional planning integrate economic and environmental concerns?

Jan 10: The Impulses for Regional Planning

Katz, Bruce, ed. 2000. Reflections on Regionalism. Washington, DC: Brookings. [ebrary link]
• Introduction: Bruce Katz
• Chapter 1: Henry R. Richmond, "Metropolitan Land-Use Reform: The Promise and Challenge of Majority Consensus"
• Chapter 2: Robert Yaro, "Growing and Governing Smart: A Case Study of the New York Region"
• Chapter 3: David Rusk, "Growth Management: The Core Regional Issue"
Foster, Kathryn, 1997. "Regional Impulses," Journal of Urban Affairs 19 (4).
Geddes, Robert . "Metropolis Unbound: The Sprawling American City and the search for Alternatives." The American Prospect, No. 35, November/December 1997, pp. 40-46.

Jan 12: Strategies for Regional Planning

Katz, Bruce, ed. 2000. Reflections on Regionalism. Washington, DC: Brookings. [ebrary]
• Chapter 5: Margaret Weir , "Coalition Building for Regionalism"
• Chapter 6: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, "Business Coalitions as a Force for Regionalism"
• Chapter 7: Kenneth T. Jackson, "Gentleman's Agreement: Discrimination in Metropolitan America"
• Chapter 8: john a. powell , "Addressing Regional Dilemmas for Minority Communities"

Jan 17: Challenges and Opposition to Regional Planning

Paul Dimond, "Empowering Families to Vote with Their Feet," in Katz, Bruce, ed. 2000. Reflections on Regionalism. Washington, DC: Brookings. (Chapter 9) [ebrary]
Tiebout, C. (1956), "A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures", Journal of Political Economy 64 (5): 416–424
Frug, Gerald E. 2002. Beyond Regional Government. Harvard Law Review 115:1763.
Pastor, Manuel, Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka. 2009. This Could Be the Start of Something Big : How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University Press. (Chgs. 1-2) [ebrary]

Jan 19: History of Regional Planning

Friedmann, John and Clyde Weaver. 1979. Territory and Function: The Evolution of Regional Planning. University of California Press. (Part I: Regionalism in America," pp. 21-86)
Robert Fishman , "The Death and Life of American Regional Planning", in Katz, Bruce, ed. 2000. Reflections on Regionalism. Washington, DC: Brookings. (Chapter 4) [ebrary]
Popper, Frank. 1993. "Rethinking Regional Planning," Society, September/October, pp. 46-54.
Markusen, Ann. 1994. American Federalism and Regional Policy. International Regional Science Review 16 (1&2):3-15.
Friedmann, John and Robin Bloch. 1990. "American exceptionalism in regional planning, 1933-2000," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 14 (4): 576-601.

Jan 24: Megaregions

Ross, Catherine L.(ed.). 2009. Megaregions : Planning for Global Competitiveness. Covelo, CA, USA: Island Press. [Introduction, Chs. 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13] [ebrary]
Regional Plan Association. 2006. America 2050: A Prospectus. New York. see also these resources. and this megaregions home page.

Jan 26:  GROUP 1 PRESENTATION: The History and Politics of Regional Planning

Background readings and links:
Metropolitan Council (Twin Cities) and its GIS
The Metropolitan Area Research Corporation (Myron Orfield)
Portland metropolitan government
regional councils of government (including SEMCOG, ABAG, etc.), the National Association of Regional Councils, and the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations)
states as implicit regional planning agencies (e.g., the New Jersey State Plan).
Patrick Geddes,
regional science,
FDR's TVA
LBJ's ARC
federal policy as implicit regional planning (e.g., US Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of Transportation)
Isserman, Andrew M. 1993. Lost in Space? On the History, Status, and Future of Regional Science. Review of Regional Studies 23 (1):1-50.

Jan 31: Chicago as the concentrator of regional resources
Cronon, William. 1991. Nature's metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton.
Chs. 1-3 (boosterism, transportation, grain).
Chs. 4-5 (lumber, meat);

Feb. 2: Chicago emerges as a manufacturing center
Cronon, William. 1991. Nature's metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton.
Chs. 6-8, epilogue (gateway city, manufacturing, white city, epilogue);

Feb 7: Regional Planning in Contemporary Chicago
Bennett, Larry. 2010. Chicago Visions and Revisions : Third City : Chicago and American Urbanism. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press. (Ch. 6: Chicago and American Urbanism) [ebrary]
Lewis, Robert D. 2003. Chicago Made : Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press. [Introduction, Chs. 1-2] [ebrary]
Smith, Carl. 2006. Plan of Chicago : Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press. [Ch 9] [ebrary]

see also:
Chicago Metropolis 2020

Feb 9:    CHI GROUP PRESENTATION: Chicago and Regional Networks

Background readings and links:
Chicago Imagebase  including the animated 1850-1990 growth map • Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 • New York Times  review of Nature's Metropolis (by Donald Miller) • City of Chicago (official site) • Chicago Historical Society • Chicago Board of Trade • Chicago Mercantile Exchange • Chronological history of Chicago (timeline) • Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory • History of Chicago's L (mass transit system) • Chicago bookshelf • Excerpt from Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle (Ch. 3:  a tour of Chicago's Packingtown meat-packing and surrounding slums) • corporate history of Armour Swift-Eckrich (Chicago-area meat company) • Chicago metropolis 2020 • Encyclopedia of Chicago •

PBS American Experience Series: Chicago - City of the Century

Lewis, Robert. 2008. Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. [ebrary] (focuses on the metropolitan expansion of Chicago's rapid industrial growth)

Feb. 14:
Benjamin, Gerald and Richard P. Nathan. 2001. Regionalism and Realism: A Study of Governments in the New York Metropolitan Area. Washington, DC: Brookings. Chapters 1-6 [ebrary]

Feb. 16: plus guest for the first hour, Dr. Phil D'Anieri (Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning, who specializes in regional institutions/politics)
Benjamin, Gerald and Richard P. Nathan. 2001. Regionalism and Realism: A Study of Governments in the New York Metropolitan Area. Washington, DC: Brookings. Chapters 7 - end

Feb 21:
RPA. A Region at Risk (Summary)
The New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan: Executive Summary

[readings to be added]

Feb 23: NYC GROUP PRESENTATION: New York

Background readings and links:
Regional Plan Association • maps • publications
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey • history • facilities map
Hudson River greenway
New York Metropolitan Transportation Council and regional links
Museum of the City of New York
North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority Inc. • a history of MPOs (Metropolitan Planning Organizations) NJTPA Quarterly
State of New Jersey: Office of Smart Growth • maps
National Association of Regional Councils

 No Class Feb 27 - Mar 2: Mid-Semester Break

Mar 6: Los Angeles

Pastor, Manuel, J. Eugene Grigsby, and Marta Lopez-Garza. 2000. Regions That Work : How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together. Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press. (Chs. 1-3) [ebrary]
Fulton, William B. 2001. The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. [selected chaptersto be made available]
Gottlieb, Robert. 2004. Next Los Angeles : The Struggle for a Livable City. Ewing, NJ, USA: University of California Press. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
Gottlieb, Robert. 2007. Reinventing Los Angeles : Nature and Community in the Global City. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.[selected chapters] [ebrary]
[readings to be added/finalized]

see also:
Pastor, Manuel, Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka. 2009. This Could Be the Start of Something Big : How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University Press. (Ch. 4) [ebrary]

Mar 8: San Francisco Bay Area
Walker, Richard A. 2009. Country in the City : The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. Seattle, WA, USA: University of Washington Press.[selected chapters] [ebrary]
Greenbelt Alliance, "At Risk: The Bay Area's Greenbelt"
[readings to be added]

Mar 13: Portland (and the Urban Growth Boundary)
Ozawa, Connie P. 2004. Portland Edge : Challenges in Growing Communities. Covelo, CA, USA: Island Press.[selected chapters] [ebrary]
[readings to be added]

Mar 15: WEST COAST GROUP PRESENTATION

Background readings and links:

Travis, William R. 2007. New Geographies of the American West : Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press.[ebrary]
Abbot, Carl. 2010. How Cities Won the West : Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America. Albuquerque, NM, USA: University of New Mexico Press.[ebrary]
Southern California Compass (public participation to shape the region's future growth)
Los Angeles Government Sources (CSUN Library)
Southern California Association of Governments • "Regional Comprehensive Plan" • "Global Gateway Regions" • Interactive Atlas
South Bay Cities Council of Governments • Westside Cities Council of Governments • Gateway Cities Council of Governments •
Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies (UCLA)
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority • rail map •  bus map
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
South Coast Air Quality Management District

March 20: Ecoregions
Sale, Kirkpatrick. 2001. "There's no place like home..." The Ecologist: 31 (2): 40-43.
Hiss, Tony. 1990. The Experience of Place: A new way of looking at and dealing with out radically changing cities and countryside. New York: Vintage. (Chapter 9, "Thinking Regionally," pp. 194-220.)
selections from: Anderson, Larry. 2002. Benton MacKaye : Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail. Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press.[ebrary]
selections from: Thayer, Robert L. 2003. Life-Place : Bioregional Thought and Practice. Ewing, NJ, USA: University of California Press.[ebrary]
[readings to be added]

March 22: Designing the "The Regional City"

selections from: Calthorpe, Peter, and William Fulton. 2001. Regional City : New Urbanism and the End of Sprawl. Covelo, CA, USA: Island Press. [available on ebrary] Bailey, Robert G. 2002. Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability. Secaucus, NJ, USA: Springer.[ebrary]
selections from: Erickson, Donna. 2006. MetroGreen : Connecting Open Space in North American Cities. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press.[ebrary]
selections from: Hellmund, Paul Cawood, and Daniel Smith. 2006. Designing Greenways : Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press.[ebrary]
selections from: Lindenmayer, David B., and Joem Fischer. 2006. Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change : An Ecological and Conservation Synthesis. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press.[ebrary]
selections from: Saunders, William. 2005. Sprawl and Suburbia : A Harvard Design Magazine Reader. Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press.[ebrary]
[readings to be added/finalized]

March 27: Water: The River Basin as Region - GUEST SPEAKER: Maria Josefa Arquero de Alarcon on Visualizing Water/Liquid Planning and the Detroit Region

Reisner, M. 1993. Cadillac desert: the American West and its disappearing water. revised ed. New York and London: Penguin Books. (Introduction & Ch. 1, pp. 1-51)
selections from: Annin, Peter. 2006. Great Lakes Water Wars. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press. [ebrary]
selections from: Mullin, Megan. 2009. Governing the Tap : Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press. [ebrary]
[readings to be added]

March 29:   ECO GROUP PRESENTATION: Ecoregions

Background readings and links:
Fregonese Calthorpe Associates
the Planet Drum Foundation
the Sierra Club ecoregions
regionalism to contain suburban sprawl
regional wildlife corridors (e.g., a GIS example from Montana and corridor design)
riverbasin-based identity (such as an envisioned Hudson River greenway from Manhattan to Albany)
greenbelts (e.g., the Greenbelt Alliance in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Vienna)
Campbell, Scott. 1992. "Integrating Economic and Environmental Planning: The Regional Perspective," pdf

This module addresses three themes: (A) the impact of globalization on metropolitan/regional development (including the rise of "global city-regions"); and (B) the role of regional planning outside the United States; (C) patterns of "new regionalism"

April 3: Globalization's Impact on Regional Planning and Development (including the rise of "global city-regions) in the US and Asia
Scott, Allen. 'Globalization and the Rise of City-Regions' GaWC Research Bulletin 26 (Z). html
Sugden, R. and J.R. Wilson. 'Globalisation, the New Economy and Regionalisation' GaWC Research Bulletin 70 (A) html
Scott, Allen J., John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael Storper. 1999. "Global City-Regions." (Conference Theme Paper). Global City-Regions Conference, UCLA. html
Shanghai Rising : State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity. 2009. Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
Two Dragon Heads : Contrasting Development Paths for Beijing and Shanghai. 2009. Herndon, VA, USA: World Bank Publications. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
[readings to be added/finalized]


April 5: European Integration and regional development in Europe
Taylor, P.J. 'Regionality within Globalization: What Does it Mean for Europe?'GaWC Research Bulletin 35 (Z) html
Krätke, S. The Metropolization of the European Urban and Regional System GaWC Research Bulletin 193 html
Albrechts, Louis, Patsy Healey, Klaus R Kunzmann. 2003. Strategic spatial planning and regional governance in Europe. Journal of the American Planning Association.Vol.69, Iss. 2 (Spring):  113 - 129
Otgaar, Alexander, Leo Van Den Berg, and Jan Van Der Meer. 2008. Empowering Metropolitan Regions Through New Forms of Cooperation : Cross-Border and Cross-Sector Partnerships in European Regions. Abingdon, Oxon, , GBR: Ashgate Publishing Group.[selected chapters] [ebrary]
Regional Development and Spatial Planning in an Enlarged European Union. 2006. Abingdon, Oxon, , GBR: Ashgate Publishing Group.[selected chapters][ebrary]
Bvrzel, Tanja. 2001. States and Regions in the European Union : Institutional Adaptation in Germany and Spain. West Nyack, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
Andreas Faludi, "The Megalopolis, the Blue Banana, and Global Economic Integration Zones in European Planning Thought," in Ross, Catherine L.(ed.). 2009. Megaregions : Planning for Global Competitiveness. Covelo, CA, USA: Island Press. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
[readings to be added/finalized]

April 10: The Rise of "New Regionalism"

readings to be selected from:
Fujita, Masahisa, Paul Krugman, and Anthony J. Venables. 1999. Spatial Economy : Cities, Regions and International Trade. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
Gertler, Meric S., and Trevor J. Barnes. 1999. New Industrial Geography : Regions, Regulations and Institutions. Florence, KY, USA: Routledge. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
New Regional Development Paradigms Vol. 2 : New Regions - Concepts, Issues & Practices. 2001. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
Mani, Devyani. 2001. New Regional Development Paradigms Vol. 3 : Decentralization, Governance & the New Planning for Local-Level Development. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
Knox, Paul L. 2008. Metroburbia, USA. New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Rutgers University Press. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
Research in Urban Sociology, Volume 10 : Suburbanization in Global Society. 2010. Bradford, GBR: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
De-Coding New Regionalism : Shifting Socio-Political Contexts in Central Europe and Latin America. 2009. Abingdon, Oxon, , GBR: Ashgate Publishing Group. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
Brenner, Neil. 2002. Decoding the newest "Metropolitan regionalism" in the USA: A critical overview. Cities: 3-21.
Wheeler, Stephen. 2002. The new regionalism: Key characteristics of an emerging movement. Journal of the American Planning Association 68, (3): 267.
[readings to be added/finalized]

additional background readings
Storper, Michael. 1997. The Regional World: Territorial Development in a Global Economy. New York: Guilford Press. (excerpt: Chapter 8, "The Regional World: Territorial Development in a Global Economy", pp. 195-220).
Scott, Allen, ed. 2001. Global City-Regions: Trends Theory, Prospects. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (introduction)
Stren, Richard. 2001. Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions. In Global City-Regions: Trends Theory, Prospects. edited by A. Scott. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Markusen, Ann and Karen Chapple. 2001. "High-Tech and I-Tech: How Metros Rank and Specialize" html | pdf
Arndt, Michael ; Thomas Gawron; Petra Jahnke. 2000. Regional policy through co-operation: From urban forum to urban network. Urban Studies; Vo. 37 (11): 1903 - 1923.

April 12:   GLOBAL GROUP PRESENTATION: Global Regions / International Regional Planning

This last session will provide an opportunity to link common themes from the six presentations and develop a set of principles for good regional planning and governance.