My comments on Preparing Your Tenure Statement were presented at the ACSP Faculty Women's Interest Group Roundtable, "Preparing Your Tenure Evaluation," 18 November, Milwaukee. A synopsis is available on Randy Cranes' Urban Planning Research blog.
The paper, "Thoughts on Anglo-American hegemony in planning scholarship: do we read each other's work?" (with Chandrima Mukhopadhyay) was presented at the 21st annual congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning, Naples, Italy, 11-14 July 2007 [Power Point slides], and has been published in Town Planning Review 78(5):545-572.
JAPA has published A Planners Guide to the Digital Bibliographic Revolution. This article seeks to expand planner's use of published research through broadened use of online literature search tools.
FSU announces its new graduate Certificate in Dispute Resolution.
Severine Mayere (PhD '07; Lecturer, Queensland University of Techology) completed her dissertation, "The influence of local political coalitions on the effectiveness of urban containment policies: empirical evidence from six U.S. states," an analysis of survey data assessing the effectiveness of urban containment programs controlling for extent of agreement among stakeholders in the community, available online.
e-mail: bruceDOTstiftelATfsuDOTedu
Urban
Planning: Bruce Stiftel, Professor
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Florida State University
330
Bellamy
Building
P.O. Box 3062280
Tallahassee FL 32306-2280 USA
direct:
+1.850.644.8522
reception: +1.850.644.4510
fax:
+1.850.645.4841
office hours
(Summer 2008): by appointment.
Graduate
Studies:Bruce Stiftel, Associate Dean
Office of Graduate Studies
Florida State University
408 Wescott Building
P.O. Box
3061410
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1410 USA
direct:
+1.850.645.7318
reception: +1.850.644.3500
fax:
+1.850.644.2969
office hours (Summer 2008): by
appointment.
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Courses. I regularly teach:
URP5101: Planning Theory and Practice is an introductory course for graduate students which discusses the roles urban/regional planners fill and the goals they pursue. [Outline in pdf format]
URP6102: Seminar in Planning Theory, an intermediate course for graduate students, views planning as the application of methods and findings of the sciences to practical questions of public policy. [pdf outline]
URP5122: Planning Dispute Resolution, an elective graduate course, seeks to develop skills at helping parties to disputes such as location of locally-unwanted land uses and setting of air ans water quality standards achieve the best outcomes. [pdf outline]
URP5425:
Methods of Environmental Analysis, an
intermediate
course for graduate students, builds abilties in valuing the
environmental consequences of government and business decision making,
for use in environmental impact assessments and other decision
analyses. [pdf
outline]
URP4022,
an upper division
undergraduate
course in Collective Decision Making, seeks to develop an appreciation
for how analysis and decision process may foster improved public
decisions. [pdf
outline]
Detailed
course
materials may be viewed by FSU students and staff through FSU's Blackboard
system (enter as a "Preview" user).
Current
Students. Current
students working under my direction are:
Mellini Sloan (Ph.D.; information, technology and values in water
supply planning and demand management)
Jeannine Kelsick (MSP Class of '09)
Katelyn Lynch (MSP Class of '09)
Matthew Muller (MSP Class of '09)
Samantha Smid (MSP Class of '09)
Deborah Burr (DIspute Resolution Certificate)
Katherine Sheppard (Dispute Resolution Certificate)
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 (PhD class of '10) and I recently presented a conference paper analyzing the degree of internationalization among the authors and editors of planning journals.
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.]
The Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium, based at Florida State University, facilitates the use of mediation and consensus building technologies for public disputes in Florida and elsewhere.
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The FSU Office of Graduate Studies supports graduate education at our university. I work with this office in organizing programs to better prepare doctoral students for university careers and to facilitate career development of graduate stuents more broadly.
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. This Fall, the Committee began work on 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 Urban and Regional Planning, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Faculty Associate of the Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium at Florida State University. 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, methods of environmental analysis, and planning dispute resolution, and organizes Preparing Future Faculty events for the FSU campus. 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.