Hilda J. Blanco PRESENT POSITIONS

Research Professor Interim Director, Center for Sustainable Cities School of Policy, Planning and Development University of Southern California 650 Childs Way Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626 (213) 821-2431 e-mail: [email protected] Professor Emeritus, Department of Urban Design and Planning Director, Masters Program in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures College of Built Environments University of Washington Box 355740 Seattle, Washington 98195-5740 (206) 650-7659 e-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION

1989. Ph.D., City and Regional Planning Ph.D. Dissertation: Pragmatism: Conceptual Framework for Planning. Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley. May 1989. 1984. Master in City and Regional Planning. Master's Professional Project: Solar and Wind Energy Prospects for San Francisco. Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley. May 1984. 1972-75. A.B.D. in Philosophy. The New School for Social Research. New York, New York 1969-1970. Ph.D. studies in Philosophy. Yale University New Haven, Connecticut

1968-1969. Graduate studies in Philosophy. City College of New York New York, New York 1968. Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and Classics City College of New York New York, New York 1964-1966. B.A. studies. New York University New York, New York RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Climate change adaptation, urban growth management, environmental and infrastructure policy and planning, brownfields policy

HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS

2008. Visiting Scholar. University of Copenhagen. Department of Landscape and Urban Planning. May, 2008. 2007-2010. Chair, Scientific Advisory Group for PLUREL, Peri-Urban Land-Use Relationships—Strategies and Sustainability Assessment Tools for Urban-rural Linkages. Funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme for Research. 31 European research partners led by the University of Copenhagen (PI: K. Nilssen) 10.8 M € January 2007-2010. 2002. Presidential Service Citation for outstanding contributions to the Association for Collegiate Schools of Planning. 2001. Honor Award from the American Planning Association and the Planning Association of Washington for the Spring 2001 General Plan Studio on Jovita Heights. 2000. Honor Award from the American Planning Association and the Planning Association of Washington for the Spring 2000 Havana Studio. 1997-98. McKinley Research Fellowship Award for research on sustainable city-regions.

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1997-98. UW Huckabay Teaching Fellowship-Mentoring Award. 1996 Honorable Mention. American Institute of Certified Planners National Student Project Award for the Spring 1996 Hunter Studio‟s Governor‟s Island Plan. 1994. Lang Student-Faculty Research Fellowship. To supervise an undergraduate student, John Carruthers, in research on sustainability issues. 1992-94. PSC/CUNY Faculty Research Award to study state-wide growth management programs and their effect on environmental issues. 1992-93. Diversity and Pluralism Research Award, Hunter College. To incorporate issues of diversity into urban planning courses. 1991-92. Provost‟s Junior Faculty Award for research on recent China land use reforms 1990-91. PSC/CUNY Faculty Research Award for studying the empirical evidence in support of new urbanist ideas. 1984. Travel Fellowship for research in Cuba. Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley. 1981.Travel Fellowship for research in Brazil. Center for Latin American Studies. University of California, Berkeley. 1980-85. Graduate Minority Program fellowships at Berkeley. 1979-80. American Planning Association Fellowship. 1969-70. Yale University Fellowship; New York State Regents fellowships. 1968. Frederick W. Sperling Award for Excellence in Philosophy, City College of New York.

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RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

2009. P.I. Information and analysis of planning in Seattle and Portland regions in relation to PLUREL. University of Copenhagen, April-May 2009, $10,000. 2007-2008. P.I. Linking Toxics Cleanup and Redevelopment Programs Across Washington State: Lessons Learned for Washington State. Phase I. Washington State Department of Ecology. Jan.-June 30, 2007 $149, 999. Sept. 2007-July 2008 $83,000; Aug-Sept. 30, 2008 $25,000. 2007. Project Manager for UW-Seattle Western Region Mayors Institute on City Design Session in July 2007 (Mayor Nickels presiding). Mayors Institute on City Design, NEA. $50,000. 2006-11 Co-PI (PI: K. Desouza) Center for Academic Excellence for National Security Education and Research. $2.7 million. 2006 Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements. ( with Christine Bae). Case Study of Livable Cities in the US. The case of Seattle. $30,000. 2006-2008 US HUD Co-PI (PI: Fritz Wagner). Jefferson Parish Revitalization Initiative Project. HUD Universities Rebuilding America Partnership: Community Design Program Award. To assist Jefferson Parish, first ring suburb of New Orleans in its planning and reconstruction activities. . ($299, 982). 2004 P.I. Developer Incentives for Public Health Benefits. ($24,000) Public Health Seattle and King County. To conduct research, facilitate a charette with developers, public planners, land use lawyers, and prepare a report to identify the most attractive and feasible zoning incentives to provide for public health benefits such as smoke-free buildings or active living features. 2004-06 US HUD. Co-PI. NW Center for Livable Communities ($225,000) (Co-PI Fritz Wagner). Seed funding to start a center to provide assistance for communities in managing growth, in economic revitalization, and in efforts to become more sustainable and

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livable. 2003. P.I. UW Vice-Provost for Research. NorthWest Center for Livable Communities ($14,500) Seed funding to develop web-site and program of the new center for livable communities. 2002-2003. P.I. Measuring the Exchange of Social Capital between Cities. The World Bank. ($25,000). 2002-2004. P.I. Phase I Course and Courseware Development for Internet-based graduate level programs leading to a Master's Degree.( P.I. David Szatmary UWEO). Washington National Guard. ($467,805). 2001-2003. Co-P.I. Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland and Issaquah Concurrency Study. Co-P.I. (P.I. Marc Hallenbeck, other Co-P.I.s are Dan Carlson, Anne Vernez-Moudon) City of Bellevue. ($249,999). 2001. Annexation Study. P.I. Snohomish County Planning Department contract to identify annexation problems and innovative solutions for special districts under Washington state‟s Growth Management Act. ($30,006). 1997-2000. P.I. Research contract with Abt Associates in the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funded, nation-wide Interim Outcomes Evaluation of the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (EZ/EC) Program. The EZ/EC program is the key element in the federal government‟s community revitalization strategy. 18 EZ/ECs were be evaluated over a five year-period, Seattle is one of these. The research design for the evaluation is twotiered, with national and local components. In charge of the local analyses for Seattle‟s EC. ($40,000) Summer, 1997. Grant from the Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development to conduct a workshop and develop a scope of work for subsequent planning for the gateway town of Greenwater. ($12,000) 1994-96. Co-PI (PI: Jeff Osleeb) NYC Department of

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Environmental Protection. Research project to develop a GIS-based comprehensive environmental baseline profile for Greenpoint-Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and to determine its applications for citizens and government agencies. ($189,000) 1990- 92. Research Fellow, Institute of Public Administration, NYC. Ford Foundation funded research project bringing together American researchers with researchers from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing to evaluate the 1980s land reform efforts in China, and a principal author, along with three Chinese colleagues of the resulting book, Urban Land Use and Management in China (1992).

EXPERIENCE Academic Institutions 10/1/2009-present

11/2008-present

Research Professor, and Director, Center for Sustainable Cities, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California. Professor Emeritus, and Director, Masters Program in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures, University of Washington.

1/2009-5/2009

Part-time Instructor, Doctoral Seminar on the Politics of Planning(PLUS 623), SPPD, University of Southern California

9/2007-6/2008

Professional leave, working on research and publications.

9l2001-9/2008

Chair, Department of Urban Design & Planning. Administered a degree-granting (Masters in Urban Planning and Masters in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures and a Masters of Science in Real Estate) academic unit with 22 faculty members, and several staff. The graduate program in urban planning is a two-year program, which admits an average class of 35 students a year. The graduate program in strategic planning for critical infrastructures is a two-year (including 2 summers) distance learning program which admits 35 students annually. The new graduate program in real estate will admit students for the first time in fall of

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2009, is a two-year program which will admit 20 students a year. Also supervision of other programs, including the undergraduate program in Community and Environmental Planning, an upper level program that admits an average of 35 students per year; and three research centers, the Runstad Center for Real Estate, the Institute for Natural Hazards Mitigation, and the Urban Ecology Center. Developed and obtained funding for the Master's program in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures which began admitting students on January 2004, and a new community service center for the Department, Northwest Center for Livable Communities. Was Co-Director of the Northwest Center for Livable Communities since its founding in 2003-2009. Supervised the development and approval of the Masters of Science in Real Estate. 2002-2008. Adjunct Professor of Public Affairs, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. 1996-2007. Member of Steering Committee for the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Urban Design and Planning. 2000- 2001 1999

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Acting Chair, Department of Urban Design & Planning On sabbatical from the University of Washington. Visiting Professor at the Psychology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, affiliated with the Center of Evolutionary Psychology. Visiting Researcher at Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (April 1999).

1996-present

Professor Emeritus, 11/2008-present; Professor, Fall 20022008; Associate Professor Fall 1996-Summer 2002, Department of Urban Design and Planning, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington. Teaching included graduate courses in Neighborhood Planning and Community Development, Infrastructure Planning and Local Finance, Planning Studios, Planning Theory, and courses in critical infrastructure.

1988-1996

Associate Professor. 1994-1996.Assistant Professor 1988-94. Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College,

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NYC. Taught graduate urban planning and urban affairs courses, including Land Use Planning, Urban Design, Sustainable Communities, Local Finance, Planning Theory, and the Planning Studio (the required 6-credit neighborhood planning workshop). 1988

1984-1985

Teaching Associate. Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley. Taught a course on the planning process.

1974-1975

Adjunct Lecturer. Philosophy Department. City College of New York. Taught introductory courses in philosophy. Adjunct Lecturer. Philosophy Department. Kean College of New Jersey. Taught introductory philosophy courses.

1972-1973

Lecturer. Department of General Education. College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Columbia University. Taught courses in contemporary civilization and behavioral sciences, and an ethics course.

Professional August 2004

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Adjunct Instructor. Spring. Master‟s Program in Public Administration. Rutgers, State University of New Jersey. Taught a course on urban planning.

Part of a 3-member advisory panel to DFI International, a defense contractor, under contract to the US Department of Homeland Security‟s Integration Office to provide the design for the training and education program for DHS.

April 2001

Part of a 3-member team on natural hazards mitigation that trained World Vision leaders in Honduras, held in Choluteca, Honduras.

Sept. 1997

Developed and taught a one-week workshop on U.S. city planning practice to a nine-member delegation of visiting Chinese planners from the city of Chongqing, P.R. China.

1995-1996

Consultant, Brooklyn Community Planning Board 2. New York City. Directed the preparation of studies leading to a neighborhood plan for a waterfront industrial area, and designed and facilitated the public participation process involved in preparing the plan.

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1992, 1995

Winter, 1992

Consultant, Siemon, Larson, and Marsh, a Chicago-based land use and environmental law firm. Worked on a contract for Puerto Rico‟s Junta de Planificacion in which I led workshops and seminars on new urban growth management regulations.

1987-1988

Manager of Policy and Research, New Jersey Office of State Planning: in charge of statewide studies, including New Jersey‟s first Infrastructure Needs Assessment, also principal author of early versions of New Jersey‟s first statewide growth management plan. Contributed the Communities of Place strategy to the New Jersey plan, which called for channeling development into a hierarchy of central places.

1986-1987

Staff Transportation Analyst, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: conducted land use studies for proposed Hudson County light rail line; staff for the land use/open space committee of the West Side Highway Task Force.

1984-1985

Planning consultant, Oakland Office of Economic Development and Employment, California: prepared the City of Oakland‟s 1985-87 Economic Development Program.

1979-1981

Planning Consultant, San Francisco Department of City Planning: coordinated, wrote, and presented the City‟s response to a proposed power plant expansion; research and wrote Solar and Wind Energy Prospects for San Francisco, a background report in support of the City‟s Energy Policy.

1974-1978

Researcher, the Educational Alliance, NYC. Research, evaluation studies, and program development for drug and alcohol abuse treatment programs for a settlement house in the Lower East Side.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

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Special Examiner, NYC Department of Personnel. Evaluated oral examinations for senior and mid-level planning titles in New York City agencies.

American Planning Association 1988-present. Congress for the New Urbanism 1994-1996, 2003-2005 International Society for Systems Science 1990-94; 2000-

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2003 Institute for Operations Research and Management Science 2002-2004 National Association for Industrial and Office Properties. 2004-2005 Urban Affairs Association 2000-present 2009-10

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Member, Scientific Committee organizing an international conference on Managing the Urban Rural Interface to be held on Oct. 18-21, 2010 at the University of Copenhagen.

2008

Organized one of three concurrent tracks, the Washington State Policy Track, for the Brownfields and Land Revitalization Conference held in Tacoma, Washington October 21-22, 2008 in collaboration with the Washington State Department of Ecology (over 350 professionals and academics attended the conference).

2007-present

Member, Urban Climate Change Research Network, organizing assessment reports on climate change in cities modeled after the International Panel on Climate Change assessment reports, the first report to be presented to the Conference of Parties (COP-15) meeting to be held December, 2009 in Copenhagen. Lead author of the Urban Land Chapter, and contributing author to the Governance Chapter.

2003-2008

Washington Chapter American Planning Association, exofficio Board Member, 2003-present.

2007

Co-sponsor and organizer with the Center of Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at UW of a forum on Unintended Consequences of the Information Age: Our infrastructures—online and vulnerable, held at the University of Washington on 3/6/07. The conference was videotaped and broadcast through UW Television.

2007

Organized, with Prof. N. Rottle, a quarterly lecture and discussion series on Global Green: Sustainable Planning and Design in the Pacific Northwest and Denmark. Obtained funding ($20,000) for the series from the Northwest Danish Foundation. The series included presentations from prominent designers from both Denmark and the Pacific Northwest, and included topics such as Civic and Green

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Infrastructure. 2007-present

Member, Advisory Board of the International Symposium on Urban Planning and Environment.

2006-2007

Co-chair, Local Host Committee for the annual conference of the Urban Affairs Association to be held in Seattle, April 2528, 2007 (over 400 academics attended). Introduced Mayor Nickels.

May 31-June2, 2006

2006-present

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Emergency Management

2001-present

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Planning Education and Research.

2001

Member, Joint APA/ACSP Committee to establish joint research agenda.

2000- 2002

Planning Theory Track Chair (one of the specialization tracks) of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

1999-2004

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the American Planning Association.

1997-2003

Chair, Sub-Committee for the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Persons of Color of the Standing Committee on Ph.D. Programs of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Member, Ph.D. Committee of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

1997-2000

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American Council on Education/Office of Women in Higher Education National Leadership Forum for the Advancement of Women Leaders. Washington DC.

Member, Marketing Strategy Committee of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

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RECENT SERVICE Academic 2006-2007 2006-2007

2004-present

2004-05

1996-present

1999-2000

2000

Member of UW Search Committee for the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Member, Graduate Opportunity and Minority Achievement Faculty/Staff Advisory Board. Member, Committee reviewing the Dean of the College of Public Health and Community Medicine Member of the Steering Committee for the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. On leave Winter, Spring 1999.

Member, Search Committee for the Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning Member of Western Europe Travel Grants and Fritz Awards Review Committee, Graduate School.

1997-1998

Member of the UW Faculty Council on Educational Outreach; member of the Curriculum Committee, Department of Urban Design and Planning; CAUP Awards Committee.

1996-1997

Member of the Strategic Planning Committee for the Department of Urban Design and Planning.

1996

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Member, UW Faculty Senate.

Appointment to CUNY's University Committee on Research 1996-2000.

1994-1996

Member, PSC/CUNY, Committee for evaluating faculty research awards in urban studies; and member, Hunter Faculty Delegate Assembly

1991-1993

Member, Hunter Faculty Senate and Master Plan Committee.

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Community 2006-2007

2006-2007

Steering Committee, Great Places Forum, Seattle, WA.

2005-2007

Member, City of Seattle Planning Commission.

2005-2006

Member, State Infrastructure Protection Sub Committee, a division of the Washington State Committee on Homeland Security.

1994-1996

Founding Member of the Strategy/Action Council of West Siders Together (WEST)—an IAF-affiliated coalition of organizations in Manhattan‟s Upper West Side.

1994-1996

Member, Board of Advisors, Cuban National Heritage, a non-political, historic preservation organization of CubanAmericans.

1994-1996

Member of the Technical Advisory Committee for New Jersey Transit‟s M.L.K. Jr.‟s light rail station planning in Jersey City.

1992-1994

Public Member, New York City Rent Guidelines Board, a municipal board, whose members are appointed by the Mayor. It decides annual rent increase rates for about one million rent regulated apartments in NYC.

Profession Spring 1995

Spring 1989

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Founding co-chair. Emergency Management Roundtable. A quarterly roundtable of county and emergency managers and campus-wide faculty meeting to discuss research relevant to natural hazards and emergency management.

Organized, obtained funding, and chaired a one-day Conference on Workers Cooperatives, ESOPs, and Community-based Enterprises, held at the Learning Alliance. Organized and chaired a conference of academic and other experts on the planning and land use issues which the NYC Charter Revision Commission was considering for placement in the November, 1989 ballot. Prepared report and follow-up documents presented to the Commission. Several recommendations were incorporated into the new Charter, including requiring that the Mayor prepare a

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Strategic Policy Statement every four years on long-term issues facing the city and strategies to deal with them. 1983-85

PUBLICATIONS Books 1994

1992

Edited Journals

Founding Editor, The Berkeley Planning Journal. Prepared proposals, obtained funding, solicited articles and other information, organized and coordinated student editorial board, faculty advisory and review committee, supervised production, printing, and distribution, and editor-in-chief. Edited the first two volumes of the journal, which is in its 25th year.

How to Think about Social Problems: American Pragmatism and the Idea of Planning. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press. With Yang, Chongguang, Li, Yang, and Zhang, Jingdong. Urban Land Use and Management in China. Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Institute of Public Administration, NYC.

H. Blanco and M. Alberti (Eds.) “Shaken, Hot, Shrinking, Impoverished and Informal: Emerging Research Agendas in Planning.” Progress in Planning, forthcoming in 2009. H. Blanco and M. Alberti (Eds.) 2009. “Hot, Congested, Crowded and Diverse: Emerging Research Agendas in Planning.” Progress in Planning. 71(3): 153-205. Berkeley Planning Journal. 1985. Vol. 2, Nos. 1-2. Spring, Fall. 192 pp. Berkeley Planning Journal. 1985. Vol. 1, No. 2. Winter. 150 pp. Berkeley Planning Journal. 1984. Vol. 1. Spring. 184 pp.

Articles 2009

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H. Blanco and M. Alberti. Building Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change through Planning. Chapter 2 in “Hot,

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congested, crowded and diverse: Emerging research agendas in planning.” Progress in Planning. 71(3):158-169. Doi: 10.1016/j.progress.2009.03.001 2008

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Pre-event Disaster Planning: Towards More Sustainable Communities. Journal of Architecture and Building Science. Special Edition on New Frontiers in Urban and Regional Design for Addressing Global Environmental Issues and Disaster Mitigation. Architectural Institute of Japan. 6:49-53, Feb. 2008. (With T. Campbell) Social Capital of Cities: Emerging Urban Networks of Horizontal Assistance. Technology in Society 28(1/2): 169-181. Doi: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2005.10.002 (With S. Mathur) Extending the emergency management tool-box with problem-based cases. Journal of Emergency Management. 3(1) 1-5. (With S. Mathur, P. Waddell) The effect of impact fees on the price of new single-family housing. Urban Studies. 41(7) 1303-1312. Training for Strategic Decision-making post 9-11. The J. BioLaw & Bus. 5(4) 60-65 .

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The Map of Science Collaboratory. Systems Research and Behavioral Science.19, 441-454. Doi: 10.1002/sres.500 Style Matters: The Case of Santa Barbara. Places 13:2, 56-63. Brooklyn, NY: Francis Halsband. Pragmatic Knowledge Codes. Berkeley Planning Journal. 10:1-14.

1992 Planning and Semiotics. Semiotica. 92:189-237 1989

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With Michael Neuman. The Environment as Common Ground: Learning from Practice. Journal of the American Planning Association, 55:3, 339-341

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1985

Wicked Problems, Planning, and Pragmatism. Berkeley Planning Journal. 1(2): 93-119.

1984

Comments on Donald Kreuckeberg's 'Planning and the New Depression in the Social Sciences'. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 3(2) Winter.

Articles Under Review

H. Blanco (Lead Author), P. McCarney, S. Parnell, M.Schmidt, K. Seto. “Chapter 8. The Role of Urban Land in Climate Change” in C. Rozensweig, W. Solecki, and S. Hammer (Eds.) First Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities. Submitted to Cambridge University Press, summer of 2009. “Prioritizing Assets in Critical Infrastructures.” Submitted to Homeland Security Affairs, winter 2009.

Book Chapters Public participation in neighborhood planning, a neglected aspect of community livability: The case of Seattle. In F. Wagner and R. Caves (Eds.) Community Liveability. Forthcoming, NY: Routledge. 1999

Lessons from an Adaptation of the Dutch Model for Integrated Environmental Zoning (IEZ) in Brooklyn, NYC. In Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement, pp. 159-180, ed. By D. Miller and G. DeRoo. Aldershot, England: Ashgate.

1999

A United States perspective on the Dutch government‟s approach seeking greater cohesion in environmental and spatial policy. In Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement, pp. 51-58, ed. by D. Miller and G. DeRoo. Aldershot: Ashgate.

1995

Community and the Four Jewels of Planning. In Planning Ethics, ed. by Sue Hendler, 66-82. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy and Research, Rutgers University.

1993

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A Systems Approach Knowledge Base for Education. In Comprehensive Systems Design: A New Educational

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Technology, ed. by C.M. Reigeluth, B.H. Banathy, and J.R. Olson, 238-252. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Reviews and invited articles 2009

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2006

H. Blanco and M. Alberti. Chapter 1. Emerging Research Agendas. In H. Blanco, and M. Alberti (Eds.) “Hot, congested, crowded and diverse: Emerging research agendas in planning.” Progress in Planning. 71(3):155-157. Comments on 3rd International UW-Kobe University Symposium on Safety and Symbiosis. Proceedings of the 3rd International UW-Kobe University Symposium on Safety and Symbiosis.

2004

The psychology of risk perception and its implications for reducing vulnerability to disasters. Proceedings of the Joint Kobe University-University of Washington International Symposium on Urban Safety and its Future. November, 2004

2001

The Map of Science: A proposal for a Collaboratory of Multiple-linked Centers. In Proceedings of the International Society for Systems Science, Summer 2001, 34 pp.

2000

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H. Blanco and M. Alberti. Chapter 1. Emerging Research Agendas. In H. Blanco and M. Alberti (Eds.) “Shaken, hot, shrinking, impoverished and informal: Emerging research agendas in planning. Progress in Planning.

“Cantarrana: una propuesta ecologica para un barrio habanero." Siempre Verde, No. 2, October 2000, 14-15. Habana, Cuba: Parque Metropolitano de La Habana and Canadian Urban Institute.

1999

Book Review of Towards Cosmopolis. Planning for Multicultural Cities by Leonie Sandercock. Journal of the American Planning Association, 65:2, 229-30.

1995

Book review of The Drama of Democracy by Jill Grant. Journal of the American Planning Association, 61:1, 403-404.

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1989

John Friedmann‟s Planning Theory: Pitfalls in Interpretation. Journal of Planning and Education Research 9:1, 61-63.

1985 Introduction. Berkeley Planning Journal 2(1-2), 3-5 1985 Introduction. Berkeley Planning Journal 1 (2), 2-4. 1984

Pragmatism: Conceptual Framework for Planning. S3 Papers. No 84-03. Social Systems Department. The Wharton School. University of Pennsylvania.

1984 Introduction. Berkeley Planning Journal 1 (1), 3-5. REPORTS/ MONOGRAPHS 2008 Final Report. Linking Cleanup and Redevelopment Efforts Across the States: Lessons for Washington State. Report for the Washington State Department of Ecology. October, 2008. Available at: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/0909043.html 2007 State Growth Management Experience in the US and Implications for Korea . Paper prepared for the Korean Research Institute of Human Settlements. October, 2007. 23 pp. 2007 Draft. Linking Clean-up and Redevelopment Efforts Across the States: Lessons for Washington State. Report to the Washington State Department of Ecology. 284 pages July, 2007 2003-2006 Developed four internet-based distance-learning graduate courses for the Masters in Strategic Planning program: SPCI 500. Strategic Planning and Systems Analysis. (w. Shishir Mathur (2003); SPCI 503. Critical Infrastructure Systems: Transportation, Water, SCADA, Telecommunications, Power and Energy Systems (2004); SPCI 511. Strategic Planning Practicum II. (2005); Strategic Planning Practicum III (2006). 2005 Development Incentives for Public Health Benefits. July 10, 2005. Report to Public Health Seattle and King County

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2003 Measuring the Exchange of Social Capital Among Cities. June 30, 2003. Report to the World Bank. Website: http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/urban/docs/blancohilda.pdf 2002-03 New Graduate Program Proposal. Masters in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructure. Presented to the Graduate Council, and the Regents of the University of Washington, and Washington State‟s Higher Education Board. 2002-03. 2002 With Shishir Mathur. Final Report. Snohomish County Annexation Transition Study. 90 pp. Snohomish County Department of Planning and Development Services., June 24, 2002. 2000 Final Report. Interim Outcomes Evaluation. Local Analysis for the Seattle Enterprise Community. 74 pp. Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA. August 30, 2000. 1998 Baseline Conditions Report for Seattle’s Enterprise Community Program. 57 pp. Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA. March 20, 1998. 1998 Interim Outcomes Evaluation. Seattle Enterprise Community Local Research Design. Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA. 1997 With J.Osleeb, D. Kass, S.Zoloth, D. Sivin, A. Biamate. Baseline Aggregate Environmental Loadings Profile for Greenpoint-Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Draft Report. NYC Department of Environmental Protection, NYC. 1989 Charter Revision: The Land Use Question. Conference Report. Hunter College. 1988 With Chris Strum, Michael Neuman, Liz Newman. Draft. A Strategy for Developing and Redeveloping Communities of Place. Concept Paper. Trenton: New Jersey Office of State Planning. 70 pp. 1985 Overall Economic Development and Employment Program for the City of Oakland. 1985-87. Prepared for Oakland's Economic Development and Employment Office. Oakland, CA. Pp. 155 text, appendices pp. 120

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1981 Wind and Solar Energy Prospects for San Francisco. Background Report for the Energy Element of San Francisco's Master Plan. 1981. Conference Presentations 2009 Integrated planning strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Europe‟s urbanizing regions—towards a research agenda. Presented (with S. Pauleit and G. Jorgensen) at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, Session 33B Adapting Urban Areas to Climate Change held in Copenhagen March 12, 2009. 2008 Panelist on “The Current State of Brownfields in Washington”, Oct. 20, 2008; presenter, “Study Findings, Recommendations for Washington State”, Oct. 21, 2008 at the Brownfields and Revitalization Conference 2008, held in Tacoma, Washington, October, 2008 2008

2008

Prioritizing Assets in Critical Infrastructure Systems. Presentation at the Critical Infrastructures Protection: Metrics and Tools Workshop, Naval Post-Graduate School, Monterey, CA. June 6, 2008. Issues and Challenges in developing a graduate program in critical infrastructure protection. Presented at the Homeland Security Conference Research and Technology Division. Held in Los Angeles, January 14, 2008.

2007 The Social Contract in American Society. Presented at the annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Held in Milwaukee, October 2007 2007 State Growth Management Experience in the US and Implications for Korea. Presented at 2007 International Conference on Regional Innovation and Development September 18, 2007, Seoul, Korea 2007 Building Capacity to Respond to Climate Change Induced Extreme Disasters. Presentation at the Urban Affairs Association Conference, April 28, 2007 held in Seattle.

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2006 On the evolution of urban design principles from the Urban Design Manifesto to the second generation of ecological design. Presented at the KU-UW 3rd International Symposium on Design Strategy towards Safety and Symbiosis of Urban Space. Held in Seattle, July 13, 2006. 2006 Urban Design Principles for a World Declaration on Urbanism. Presented at the World Planners Congress (part of the World Urban Forum, Habitat 2), held in Vancouver, B.C. June 19th, 2006. 2005 Developer Incentives for Public Health Benefits. Presented at the Conference on Tobacco or Health, held in Chicago, May 3-6, 2005; also presented a shorter version at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Kansas City, October 27, 2005. 2004 Masters Program in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures: an online program with a distinctive strategic focus. Presented at the Third Annual Congress on Infrastructure Security for the Built Environment held in St. Louis, MO on November 9th, 2004. 2004 Towards an Integrated Management Science. Presented on October 27, 2004, at the Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), held in Denver, Colorado. 2004 Assessing the level of participation in Seattle‟s Recent Neighborhood Planning Process. Presented on September 3, 2004 at the5th Pacific Rim Participatory Community Design Conference held in Seattle, WA. 2004 The psychology of risk perception and its implications for reducing vulnerability to disasters. Presented at the 1st Kobe University-University of Washington International Symposium on Urban Safety and its Future, held at Seattle, on June 14-15, 2004. 2003 Emerging urban networks for mutual assistance and the role of the World Bank. Presented at the Joint AESOP-ACSP annual conference held in Leuven, Belgium, July 2003.

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2002 Planning for Resilient Systems. Presented at the annual meeting of Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) San Jose, CA, November 19, 2002. 2002 The Disconnection between annexation processes and growth management programs. Presented with Shishir Mathur at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, November, 22, 2002. 2002 Defensible Space vs. Public Space. Presented at the International Symposium on Creating Sustainable Urban Environments held at Christ Church, Oxford University, September 23, 2002 2002 Training for Strategic Decision Making Post 9-11. Presented at the Bio-defense Conference held in Seattle, WA, March 2002. 2001 The Structure of Practical Knowledge and the Operation of Practical Reason. Presented at the national conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, November, 2001. 2001 The Map of Science: A Proposal for a Collaboratory of Multiple-Linked Centers. Presented at the annual conference of the International Society for Systems Science, at Asilomar, California, July 2001. 2000 Ecology and Property. Presented at the national conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, November 4, 2000. Atlanta, GA. 1999 How Rational Are We? Not Much According to the Prospect School of Psychology. Presented at the national conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. October 1999. Chicago, Illinois. 1998 “The Effectiveness of Policies to Contain Urban Sprawl and their Evolution in Florida, Oregon, and Vermont. Presentation at the national Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, November 1998. 1998

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“The Growing Importance of Hearing Examiners in Planning”. Presentation at the National Conference of the American Planning Association, April 1998, held in Boston, MA. 1997 "Lessons for the Pearl River Delta from the Experience with Growth Management in Three State Growth Management Programs in the U.S." . Paper presented at Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, P.R. China. December 1997. 1997 "Lessons from an Adaptation of the Dutch Model for Integrated Environmental Zoning (IEZ) in Brooklyn, NYC." Paper presented at the ACSP conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. November 1997. 1997 “Lessons from an Application of the Dutch Government‟s Industrial Environmental Zoning Methodology to a Community in Brooklyn, NYC.” Paper delivered at the Second International Symposium on Urban Planning and Environment held in Groningen, the Netherlands in March 1997. Also, presented at keynote panel, “Comments on „Environment and Space: Towards More Cohesion in Environmental and Spatial Policy.” 1996 “A Pragmatic Planning Approach for the 21st Century.” Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Conference held in Toronto in August. 1996 "Creating a Necklace of Redevelopment Through Public Investment in Transit-oriented Redevelopment Centers" Presented at the Planners Network Conference, held at Pratt Institute, June 14-16, 1996. 1995 “State Growth Management and the New Urbanism.” Presented at the Third Congress of the New Urbanism, San Francisco, CA in February. 1994 “Lessons from a Sustainable Communities Workshop.” Presented at the Conference of the Community Sustainability Resource Institute, Silver Spring, Maryland in November. 1994 “Pragmatism‟s Communitarian Theory and Its Implications for Planning.” Presentation at the Conference of ACSP held

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in Tempe, Arizona in November. 1993 “The Importance of Neighborhood Commercial for Achieving More Sustainable Communities.” Sustainable Communities Conference held at George Mason University, November 18. 1993 “We Need to Reinvent the University.” Presented at the International Society for Systems Sciences Conference held at Asilomar, Monterey in October. 1993 “The Breakdown of the Social Contract in American Society.” Invited presentation at the Conference on Planning in Context: Development in a Changing World, held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, March 4-6, 1993. 1992 Earlier version of “The Breakdown of the Social Contract in American Society.” Presented at the annual conference of ACSP, held in Columbus, Ohio in November. Also, organized and moderated a Roundtable on “Desegregating „the ghetto‟: Integrating Class, Race/Ethnic, and Gender Issues in Planning Education.” 1992 “When Tame Problems Turn Wicked.” Presented at the annual conference of the International Society for Systems Sciences, held in Denver, Colorado, July 11-17, 1992. 1990 “The Environmental Justification for Planning.” Presented at ACSP annual conference, Austin, Texas, November 2-4,1990. 1990 “Pragmatism and Planning.” Presented at the International Social Systems Sciences Conference, Portland, Oregon, July 8, 1990. 1989 “The Three Jewels of Planning.” Presented at the Conference of ACSP, Portland, Oregon, October 5-7, 1989. 1989 “The Next Wave in Development: From PUDs to Planned Communities, Montgomery Village in Somerset County, New Jersey.” Presented at the American Planning Association Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, April 30, 1989. 1986 .“Curitiba, Brazil: A New Exemplar for City Planning." International Conference on Making Cities Liveable, Venice,

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Italy, June 6-11, 1986. 1983 "Pragmatism: Conceptual Framework for Planning." Presented at the Association for Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference held in San Francisco, CA, October 22, 1983. Invited Presentations 2009 The Role of Urban Planning in Creating Green Cities. Keynote speech at the Green Cities: Urban Environmental Policy in a Global Context Roundtable. Peking UniversityLincoln Institute, Center for Urban Development and Land Policy. Sept. 11, 2009 held in Beijing; also presented at the International Academic Frontier session of the annual meeting of the Urban Planning Society of China held on Sept. 13, 2009 in Tianjin, China. 2009 U.S. Urban Planning Context. Presented at the China-US Professional Workshop on Regional Sustainable Development, Seattle, May 5, 2009. 2009 Integrated planning strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Europe‟s urbanizing regions—towards a research agenda. Presented at Research Workshop on Urban Development and Climate Change, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, March 13, 2009. 2008 Research agenda for adaptation planning. Presented at a research seminar of the Center for Strategic Urban Research, Center for Forest and Landscape and Planning at University of Copenhagen. May 15, 2008. 2008

The effectiveness of state-wide growth management programs in the U.S. Public lecture presented at the Faculty of Life Sciences, Center for Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen. May 13, 2008.

2008 Issues and challenges in developing a graduate program in critical infrastructure protection. Presented at the US Department of Homeland Security‟s Science and Technology Stakeholders Conference-West held in the Los Angeles Convention Center, January 14, 2008.

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2007 Recent Research on Urban Growth Management in the US. Presented at the annual conference of PLUREL, Leipzig, Germany, on October 12, 2007. 2007 State Growth Management Experience in the US and Implications for Korea. Presented at the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, on Sept. 19, 2007. 2007 2007 Linking Toxics Cleanup with Redevelopment in Washington State: Preliminary Results. Presented at Brownfields 2007: Towards Sustainable Redevelopment in the Puget Sound Region. Conference held in Seattle Washington, June 27, 2007. 2007 Introductory Remarks on Critical Infrastructures and the Masters Program on Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures. Presented at the Forum on Unintended Consequences of the Information Age: Our infrastructures— on-line and vulnerable, held at the University of Washington on 3/6/07 and broadcast on UWTV. 2006 Pre-event Disaster Planning presented at the International Symposium on Disaster Preparedness. Evans School of Public Affairs. Sept. 26, 2006. 2005 Challenges to Housing Affordability. Presented at the Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, June 16, 2005. 2004 Fiscal Trends in Financing Infrastructure in US cities. Presented to a delegation of Chinese Mayors from Jiangsu Province at UW on October 18, 2004, and on December 15, 2004 to Chongqing Mayors as part of the American Planning Association‟s China Mayors Training Program. 2003 “Scientific Collaboratories”. Presentation to the COE Program at Kobe University, Japan, December 1, 2003. 2001 “Cuba-US Trade Policy and UW Ecological Wastewater Project” Presentation to Washington State legislators and their staff in Olympia, March, 2001. 2000 “Financing Options for Infrastructure.” Invited presentation at

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the International Meeting on Technological Alternatives for solving the Pollution of the Almendares-Vento Watershed. Held at the Parque Metropolitano de la Habana(PMH), sponsored by the Canadian Urban Institute, and PMH, April 12, 2000. 1999 Recent Trends in Urban Design in the U.S. Invited presentation to the Faculty of Architecture. Kasersart University, Bangkok, Thailand. December 8, 1999. 1999 The Importance of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology for Public Policy and Planning. Invited presentation to Ph.D. Theory Seminar, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT. April 29, 1999. 1999 Findings from a study of the effectiveness of state growth management programs. Invited presentation to the Department of Natural Resources, University of Vermont. March 11, 1999. 1999 Selected findings from a study of the effectiveness of state growth management programs in reducing sprawl. Invited presentation to the Public Policy Forum, Portland State University. February 5, 1999. 1996 "Industrially-zoned New York City, what should the future be?" Presented at panel hosted by Hostos Community College--CUNY on May 1, 1996. 1996 “Dilemmas of Mixed Use.” Invited presentation at the Planning Colloquium, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in November,1996. 1992 “Implications of Recent Land Use Reforms in China.” Presented to the American Planning Association, NYC Metro Chapter, November 18, 1992. 1992 “Non-work travel and Its Implications for Land-Use Patterns.” Invited presentation at the Suburban Design Seminar, School of Architecture, University of Miami in April 4, 1992 1992 “Nuevas Competencias Urbanisticas.‟ Series of three lectures

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in Spanish to Puerto Rican officials under the auspices of the Junta de Planificacion, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in February, 1992. 1991 “Incorporating International Experience in the China Land Reform Evaluation Study.” Invited presentation at the International Conference on Urban Land Use and Management in China, held in Beijing, December 2-4, 1991 1990 “A Systems approach Knowledge-Base for Education.” Invited presentation at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Educational Design, held in Asilomar, Monterey, 1990. 1988 “A Strategy for Developing and Redeveloping Communities of Place.” Presented to the New Jersey State Planning Commission, at its meeting held in Princeton, New Jersey in June, 1988. VIDEO PRODUCTION The Garbage Disposal Crisis: A Planning Perspective. 58 minute public education video on the garbage crisis focusing on New York City. Aired by CUNY TV. (1990) Charter Revision: Changing New York’s Constitution.(with Michelle O‟Neil and Susan Tucker) 28 minute public information video on the major changes proposed by the Charter Revision Commission. Aired by 4 public access stations in New York City before the election. (1989). Pasadena Community Access Corporation, Community Producer Certificate, March 4, 2008.

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