Petition Candidate For APA Director, Region
1 — 2002Within each category, nearly everything is in chronological order.
Board Memberships
Editorial Board, Journal of the American Planning Association, 1983–1994
Board of Directors, American Planning Association, 1984–1987
National Board, Citizens Council for Land Use Research and Education, 1977-1990
Board of Directors, Center for Alternative Energy, 1977-1978
Advisory Committee, Acorn/Midwest Energy Alternatives Network, 1979-1980
Montgomery County [Maryland] Noise Control Board, 1982-1983
Advisory Board, Barrington Hills [Illinois] Project, 1982-1983
Editorial Board, American Land Forum, 1982-1986
Contributing Editor, American Land Forum, 1986-1988
Board of Directors, American Land Forum (later American Land Resource Association), 1983-1988
Advisory Board, The Encyclopedia of the Environment, 1991-1994
Advisory Board, Urban Ecology, 1991-1998
Advisor, American Frontier Project, National Rural Health Association, 1992-1993
Advisory Board, The Living Institute, 1992-1993
Advisory Panel, Land Ethics Program, Center for Respect of Life and Environment, 1992-1994
Advisory Panel, Rural Americans Project, 1992-1996
Advisor, Global Biodiversity Assessment, United Nations Environmental Program, 1994
Advisory Board, Eastern Bison Recovery Project, Wildlife Recovery Council, 1994-1995
Advisory Board, Ecocity Builders, 1995-present
Editorial Board, Journal of Rural Communities, 1996-1997
Board of Directors, Frontier Education Center, 1997-present
Board of Advisors, Great Plains Restoration Council, 1997-present
Editorial Board, Housing Policy Debate, 1998-present
Board of Directors, American Land Publishing Project, 2000-present
Professional Memberships
American Planning Association, 1983+
Planners Network, 1976-1995
Environmental Professionals Network, 1980-1982
Consultant Capacities Group, 1981-1982
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 1983-1991
Common Property Resource Network, 1989-1995
Society for Ecological Restoration, 1990-present
The Land Institute, 1990-present
Society for Range Management, 1994-1995
Poverty and Race Research Action Council, 1994-1996
Great Plains Foundation, 1995-present
National Bison Association, 1996-present
Great Plains Buffalo Association, 1997-present
American Culture Association, 2000-present
Missouri Prairie Foundation, 2000-present
Consulting
Northeastern Arizona Governments Organization, 1979-1981
Roy Littlejohn Associates, 1980
U.S. Commerce Department, Office of Coastal Zone Management, 1980
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1980
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Review, 1980
Environmental Law Institute, 1980-1981
Technical Assistance and Training Corporation, 1981
Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981
Public Interest Economics, 1981-1982
Manufactured Housing, Inc., 1982-1983
Town & Country, 1982-1983
American Land Forum, 1982-1983
National Planning Association, 1983-1985
U.S. Agriculture Department, Forest Service, 1985
Industry/University Cooperative Center for Research in Hazardous and Toxic Substances, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1985-1986
Fund for Renewable Energy and the Environment, 1987
Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Rutgers University, 1990
Couturie Films, 1992
Nebraska Educational Television Network, 1993-1996
Blackside Films, 1995
Dama Productions, 1995
Board of Regents, State of Louisiana, 1995
Somerset County [New Jersey] Community Action Program, 2000
City University of New York, Vietnam Project, 2001
Honors
Award, Journal of the American Planning Association, Best Article of the Year in the Journal, 1988
Award, Society of National Association Publications, Best Article of the Year in a Scholarly Journal, Second Prize, 1988
Article Nominated by Western Historical Quarterly for ABC-Clio Award for Best Article in 1994-1996 on American History and Life, with Deborah Popper and Robert Lang
Paul Vouras Medal for Regional Geography, American Geographical Society, 1997, with Deborah Popper
Fellow, American Geographical Society, 1997-present
Presidential Award for Distinguished Public Service, Rutgers University, 1997
Associate Fellow, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, 2001-present
Work Experience
Currently:
Associate Professor to Professor, Urban Studies Department, Rutgers University, 1983+
Chair, 1986-1991, 1994; participation in Urban Planning and Geography Departments, 1983-present, Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies, 1987-1991, and American Studies Department, 1993-present; Visiting Scholar, Center for Urban Policy Research, 1990-1991
Research Associate, Twentieth Century Fund (now Century Foundation), 1968-1969
Staff Associate, Public Administration Service, 1971-1973
Senior Research Associate, American Society of Planning Officials (now American Planning Association), 1973-1974
Director, Project on the Politics of State Land-Use Regulation, Twentieth Century Fund (now Century Foundation), 1975-1981
Senior Associate, Environmental Law Institute, 1979-1980
Gilbert White Fellow, Resources for the Future, 1982-1983
Books
The President's Commissions (New York: Twentieth Century Fund [now Century Foundation], 1970)
Urban Nongrowth: City Planning for People (New York: Praeger, 1976), with Earl Finkler and William Toner (excerpted in Planning, July 1976)
The Politics of Land-Use Reform (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981)
Land Reform, American Style (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld, 1984), edited with Charles Geisler (excerpted in Community Economics, Summer 1984)
The Buffalo Commons and the Future of the Great Plains (Placitas, New Mexico: Liveoak Editions, forthcoming), edited with Deborah Popper
Articles in Newspapers
"A Private Solution to a Public Problem," Los Angeles Times, July 26, 1978
"Land Crunch?" New York Times, March 29, 1981
"True Tales of Consulting for the Feds," New York Times, June 7, 1981
"Another `Rebellion'?" New York Times, December 14, 1981
"The American Frontier: It's Alive and Well `Out West,'" Chicago Tribune, June 12, 1983
"The Frontier Has Not Vanished," Los Angeles Times, June 26, 1983
"Saving the Plains: The Bison Gambit," Washington Post, August 6, 1989, with Deborah Popper (reprinted in Social Issues Resources Series, Habitat, Volume 3 [Boca Raton, Florida: Social Issues Resources Series, 1990])
"Much of the Plains Will Be Forsaken," Grand Forks [North Dakota]Herald, October 29, 1989, with Deborah Popper
"Where the Buffalo Used to Roam," Boston Globe, September 27, 1992, with Deborah Popper
"The Future of the Great Plains," Aberdeen [South Dakota] American News, November 26, 1992, with Deborah Popper
"Making Plans," Boston Globe, July 4, 1993
"Yo, Pioneers!" Washington Post, September 5, 1993, with Deborah Popper (reprinted in Thunderbear, September 1993)
"Metamorphosis in Suburbia," New York Times, August 18, 1996
"Symbol of the Prairie," Bismarck [North Dakota] Tribune, January 18, 1998, with Deborah Popper
"Buffalo Commons Likely to Blossom in New Millennium," Aberdeen [South Dakota] American News, January 1, 2000, with Deborah Popper
Professional and Civic Activities
Consultant, University of Chicago-Argonne National Laboratory Project on Environmental Pollutants and the Urban Economy, 1974
Illinois State Land Use Planning Committee, Chicago Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council, 1975-1976
Land Use Task Force, Illinois Coastal Zone Management Program, 1975-1976
Organizer, Conference on State Land-Use Planning, Conservation Foundation, 1976
Illinois Futures Committee, Illinois Chamber of Commerce, 1976-1979
Illinois Sun Week Planning Committee, 1978
Visiting Associate Professor, Summer Planning Program, Cornell University, 1984
Long-Range Land-Use Planning Committee, National Planning Association, 1984-1985
Environmental Mediator Pool, Center for Public Dispute Resolution, New Jersey Public Advocate Department, 1985-1990
Chair, Environmental Disputes Group, Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Rutgers University, 1987-1989
Member, National Workshop on Facility Siting, 1989-1990
Member, American-Polish Cooperative Program on Urban Environmental Planning, 1989-1991
Best Article Committee, Journal of the American Planning Association, 1990
Codirector, Seminar for Polish Officials on American Local Environmental and Land-Use Planning, Rutgers University, 1990
Program Committee, Neighborhood Leadership Initiative, Community Foundation of New Jersey, 1992-1993
Planning Committee, University of Wisconsin, Land Tenure Center, North American Program, 1994-1996
Awards Jury, New Jersey Chapter, American Planning Association, 1995, 1996 and 1998
National Conference Planning Committee, Society for Ecological Restoration, 1995-1996
Moderator, New Jersey State Finals, National Geography Bee, 1997
Member, Committee on the Design, Construction, and Renovation of Laboratories, National Research Council, 1998-2000
Member, Agora Coalition, Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy, Rutgers University, 1998-present
Member, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Urban Influences Committee, Fannie Mae Foundation and Woodrow Wilson Center, 1999
Volunteer Canvasser, Eastern Service Workers Association, 2001-present
Visiting Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Princeton University, 2001-2002
Education
B.A., Haverford College, Psychology, 1965
Masters of .Public Administration, Harvard University, Public Administration, 1968
Ph.D., Harvard University, Political Science, 1972
Articles in Professional Publications: Refereed
"Internal War as a Stimulant of Political Development," Comparative Political Studies, January 1971
"The Social Meaning of Social Accounting," Polity, Fall 1971
"Speeding Industrial Siting: The False Promise of Procedural Reform," Sloan Management Review, Fall 1980, with Robert Healy
"LP/HC and LULUs: The Political Uses of Risk Analysis in Land-Use Planning," Risk Analysis, December 1983 (reprinted in Robert Lake [ed.], Resolving Locational Conflict [New Brunswick: Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research, 1987])
"The Timely End of the Sagebrush Rebellion," The Public Interest, Summer 1984
"Rural Land-Use Policies and Rural Poverty," Journal of the American Planning Association, Summer 1984 (reprinted in Resources for the Future's Reprint Series, 1985, Washington)
"The Environmentalist and the LULU," Environment, March 1985 (reprinted in Benjamin Gailey [ed.], 1986 Zoning and Planning Law Handbook [New York: Clark Boardman, 1986] and in Robert Lake [ed.], Resolving Locational Conflict [New Brunswick: Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research, 1987])
"Why I Don't Do Much Federal Consulting Anymore," Journal of Management Consulting, Fall 1985
"External Causes of Death Among Young White Americans," New England Journal of Medicine, December 5, 1985, with Michael Greenberg and George Carey
"The Strange Case of the Contemporary American Frontier," The Yale Review, Autumn 1986 (reprinted in Clyde Milner II [ed.], Major Problems in the History of the American West [Lexington, Massachusetts: Heath, 1989])
"Violent Death, Violent States, and American Youth," The Public Interest, Spring 1987, with Michael Greenberg and George Carey
"Hats Off to Local Public Health Officers," Journal of Environmental Health, May-June 1987, with Michael Greenberg and Jerry Leibowitz
"Understanding American Land Use Regulation Since 1970: A Revisionist Interpretation," Journal of the American Planning Association, Summer 1988 (reprinted in Jay Stein [ed.], Classic Readings in Urban Planning: An Introduction [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995])
"The TOADS: A New American Urban Epidemic," Urban Affairs Quarterly (now Urban Affairs Review), March 1990, with Michael Greenberg and Bernadette West
"Government Land Preservation and Communication Policies in Fast-Growing Counties in the United States of America," Environmental and Planning C: Government and Policy, Fall 1990, with Michael Greenberg
"The Fiscal Pit and the Federalist Pendulum: Explaining Differences Between US States in Protecting Health and the Environment," The Environmentalist, Summer 1991, with Michael Greenberg and Bernadette West
"TOADS Go To New Jersey: Implications for Land Use and Public Health in Mid-Sized and Large U.S. Cities," Urban Studies, Winter 1992, with Michael Greenberg, Bernadette West and Dona Schneider
"Community Organizing to Prevent TOADS in the United States," Community Development Journal, January 1993, with Michael Greenberg, Bernadette West and Dona Schneider
"Rethinking Regional Planning," Society, September/October 1993
"Linking City Planning and Public Health in the United States," Journal of Planning Literature, February 1994, with Michael Greenberg, Bernadette West and Donald Krueckeberg
"The Great Plains: Checkered Past, Hopeful Future," Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Winter 1994, with Deborah Popper (excerpted in News and Notions, West Central Chapter, American Planning Association, December 1994)
"`Progress of the Nation': The Settlement History of the Enduring American Frontier," Western Historical Quarterly, Autumn 1995, with Deborah Popper and Robert Lang
"Is There Still a Frontier? The 1890 U.S. Census and the Modern American West," Journal of Rural Studies, Fall 1997, with Deborah Popper and Robert Lang
"The Buffalo Commons: Metaphor as Method," Geographical Review, October 1999, with Deborah Popper (excerpted in Wild Earth, Winter 1999/Spring 2000; Bison World, April-June 2000; Southern Plains Land Trust’s Grasslands Gazette, Spring-Summer 2000; and Missouri Prairie Journal, Fall 2001)
"From Maps to Myth: The Census, Turner and the Idea of the Frontier," Journal of American and Comparative Cultures, Spring 2000, with Deborah Popper and Robert Lang (reprint in High Country News, forthcoming)
"The Buffalo Commons' Intellectual Predecessors and Their Meanings," in preparation, with Deborah Popper
“Regional Desettlement as National Opportunity: Late-19th-Century Northern New England, Today's Great Plains and Elsewhere," in preparation, with Deborah Popper
“Antiqued American Landscapes and Their Implications,” in preparation, with Deborah Popper
“The New Significance of the Frontier in American History," in preparation, with Deborah Popper
Articles in Professional Publications: Not Refereed
"The President's Commissions: How Do They Work? How Could They Work Better?" (Washington, Connecticut: Center for Information on America, 1970), with Deborah Popper
"Leisure Homes Urbanize the Countryside," Planning, August 1973, with David Mosena
"Land-Use Reform: Illusion or Reality?" Planning, September 1974 (reprinted in the Rocky Mountain News and Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Casebook Land Use: National Legislation)
"The Goodmans' Search for Utopia," Planning, February 1975
"We've Got To Dig Deeper Into Who Owns Our Land," Planning, October 1976 (reprinted in American Planning Association, The Best of Planning [Chicago: Planners Press, 1989])
"Resisting the Organization," Planning, January 1978
"Ownership: The Hidden Factor in Land-Use Regulation," in Richard Andrews (ed.), Land in America: Commodity or Natural Resource?
(Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1979) (reprinted in Urban Land, December 1978)
"Who Owns the Midwest? Who Cares?" Acorn, December 1978-January 1979
"Putting New Life Into the Environmental Movement," Planning, May 1979
"Why We Should Care Who Owns the Land," American Land Forum, Winter 1981 (reprinted in Business and Society Review, Summer 1981)
"Siting LULUs [Locally Unwanted Land Uses]," Planning, April 1981 (reprinted in American Planning Association, The Best of Planning [Chicago: Planners Press, 1989])
"Unshaping Growth," American Land Forum, Spring 1981
"When the Development is a LULU..." re:sources, Spring/Summer 1981
"How to Locate a LULU," American Land Forum, Summer 1981
"Finding Out Who Owns the Land: A Lesson from Cochise County, Arizona” Planning, August 1981, with Earl Finkler
"A Practical Land Ethic," American Land Forum, Summer 1982
"Lighting Out for the Territory," American Land Forum, Winter 1983
"Let's Reopen the West," Planning, May 1983 (reprinted in American Planning Association, The Best of Planning [Chicago: Planners Press, 1989])
"LULUs," Resources, June 1983
"The Surviving American Frontier," American Land Forum, Summer 1983 (reprinted in Urban Land, October 1983)
"LULU: Unwanted and Unloved, But Unneeded?" Amicus Journal, Summer 1983
"The City House and the Country House: Land-Use Policies and Rural Poverty in the Northeast" (Washington, DC: Rural Development, Poverty, and Natural Resources Workshop Paper Series, Resources for the Future, 1984)
"The LULU: Coping with Locally Unwanted Land Uses," Proceedings of the Conference on Controversial Land Uses: In Search of Solutions (Rochester, Michigan: Oakland University Division of Continuing Education, 1984)
"LULUs and Their Blockage: A New Issue for National Economic Policy," Looking Ahead, July 1984
"Survival of the American Frontier," Resources, Summer 1984 (excerpted in Harper's, December 1984; The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1985; and The Buckskin Bulletin, Summer 1985; reprinted in the Sacramento Bee)
"Learning to Love Negotiation," Planning, January 1985
"Way Out West in Florida," American Land Forum, Winter 1985 (reprinted in Florida Environmental and Urban Issues, July 1985)
"The Strange Case of the Contemporary American Frontier, or Warping the Winning of the West" (Ithaca, New York: Research Paper Series, City and Regional Planning Department, Cornell University, 1985)
"Reflections of an APA [American Planning Association] Board Member," New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association Newsletter, Spring 1985
"What Should Be Done About the Public Lands?" American Land Forum, Summer 1985
"There's No Place Like Home, Baby," American Land Forum, Summer 1986 (excerpted in Home News of Central New Jersey)
"Viewpoint," Planning, September 1986, with Michael Greenberg
"Zen Public-Land Policy," American Land Forum, Fall 1986
"U.S. Youth and Violent Death," American Geographical Society's Focus, Spring 1987, with George Carey and Michael Greenberg
"The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust," Planning, December 1987, with Deborah Popper (reprinted in the Grand Forks [North Dakota] Herald; American Planning Association, The Best of Planning [Chicago: Planners Press, 1989]; Colorado Conservation Tillage Association News, May 1992; and Focus [Connecticut College], Spring 1992 and Fall 1992)
"Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities," in David Sachsman, Michael Greenberg, and Peter Sandman (eds.), The Environmental Reporter's Handbook (Newark: Hazardous Substance Management Research Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1988)
"The LULU as a Potential Disaster," in Ann Brooks, Vernon Deines and David Gattis (eds.), Proceedings of Annual Conferences, 1980-1984, Small Town and Rural Planning Division, American Planning Association (Manhattan, Kansas: Regional and Community Planning Department and Center for Research and Community Services, Kansas State University, 1988)
"The Fate of the Plains," High Country News, September 26, 1988,with Deborah Popper (reprinted in Ed Marston [ed.], Reopening the Western Frontier [Washington, D.C. and Covelo, California: Island Press, 1989] and Local Paper [Jordan, Montana])
"A Nest-Egg Approach to the Public Lands," in Benjamin Dysart III and Marion Clawson (eds.), Managing Public Lands in the Public Interest (New York: Praeger, 1988)
"Planning America's Future," Douglass Alumnae Quarterly, Spring 1989
"Balancing Environment and Land Use," Environmental Forum, July/August 1989
"Public Lands Policy is an Intellectual Wilderness," High Country News, August 28, 1989
"Land Use and the Environment," in American Planning Association, The Best of Planning (Chicago: Planners Press, 1989)
"Understanding American Land-Use Regulation Since 1970," in Iwo Byczewski and Maria Ptaszynska-Woloczkowicz (eds.), Land Management Under Different Political Systems (Warsaw: Polish Town Planners Association, 1989)
"America the Planned: How the United States Embraced Regional Land-Use Planning and Why It Hates It Anyway," in Daniel Carlson and Christopher Leman (eds.), The Uses of Our Land: Striking A Balance (Seattle: University of Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, 1989)
"Back to the Buffalo: The Economic Future of the Great Plains," fedgazette, December 1989, with Deborah Popper (reprinted in CUPR [Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University] Report, Winter 1991)
"The Unappreciated Acceptance of American Land-Use Planning," in Stephen Born, Duncan Harkin, Harvey Jacobs and John Roberts (eds.), Future Issues Facing Wisconsin's Land Resources (Madison: Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1990)
"Viewpoint," Planning, January 1991
"The Restoration of the Great Plains Frontier," Earth Island Journal, Spring 1991, with Deborah Popper (reprinted in Crosswinds, July 1991)
"The Reinvention of the American Frontier," Amicus Journal, Summer 1991, with Deborah Popper (reprinted in San Francisco Chronicle; Wild Earth, Spring 1992; Thunderbear, May 1992; Focus [Connecticut College], Spring 1992)
"The Return of the American Frontier," Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, Summer 1991, with Deborah Popper
"LULUs and Their Blockage: The Nature of the Problem, The Outline of the Solutions," in Joseph DiMento and LeRoy Graymer (eds.), Confronting Regional Challenges: Approaches to LULUs, Growth, and Other Vexing Governance Problems (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1991)
"Thinking Globally, Acting Regionally," Technology Review, April 1992
"The Great LULU Trading Game," Planning, May 1992
"The Return of the American Frontier: Some Implications for Fisheries," in John Harville (ed.), Preparing for the '90s and Beyond: Proceedings of the North American Fisheries Leadership Workshop (Bethesda, Maryland: American Fisheries Society, 1992)
"Rethinking American Regional Planning" (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Working Paper Series, Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1992)
"Seasons of Boom and Bust," Harrowsmith Country Life, July/August 1993, with Deborah Popper (reprinted in Mobridge [South Dakota] Tribune)
"The Future of the Great Plains," Proceedings, North American Public Bison Herds Symposium (Denver: National Bison Association, 1993), with Deborah Popper
"The Buffalo Commons, Then and Now," American Geographical Society's Focus, Winter 1993, with Deborah Popper (reprinted in Larry Underwood (ed.), Case Studies in Environmental Science [New York: Harcourt College Publishers, second edition, 2001])
"The Buffalo Commons: A Bioregional Vision," Landscape Architecture, April 1994, with Deborah Popper
"Pipelines as LULUs," National Pipeline Safety Summit, Newark, New Jersey, June 20, 1994 (Newark: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Institute of Transportation, 1994)
"Finding Treasure in TOADS," Planning, April 1994, with Michael Greenberg
"NIMBY," in Ruth Eblen and William Eblen (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the Environment (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994; second edition, Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish, forthcoming)
"The Storytellers," Planning, October 1996, with Deborah Popper
"The Bison Are Coming," High Country News, February 2, 1998, with Deborah Popper (reprinted in Larry Underwood, Case Studies in Environmental Science [New York: Harcourt College Publishers, second edition, 2001])
"The Re-emergence of the American Frontier," Studies in History and Contemporary Culture, March 1998, with Deborah Popper
"Temporarily Obsolete Abandoned Derelict Sites," in Willem van Vliet-- (ed.), Encyclopedia of Housing (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1998), with Michael Greenberg
"Not in My Back Yard," in Willem van Vliet-- (ed.), Encyclopedia of Housing (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1998)
"Locally Unwanted Land Use," in Willem van Vliet-- (ed.), Encyclopedia of Housing (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1998)
“A Buffalo Commons Bibliography,” High Country News, January 15, 2001, with Deborah Popper
“Locally Unwanted Land Uses,” in Roger Caves (ed.), Encyclopedia of the City (New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
Book reviews for Planning; Water, Air and Soil Pollution; Coastal Zone Management Journal; Urban Land; Journal of the American Planning Association; Resources; Quarterly Review of Biology; Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Books of the Southwest; Amicus Journal; Journal of Urban Affairs; Orion Nature Quarterly; Washington Times; and Great Plains Quarterly
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