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Richard LeGates                      

                            

Richard Legates has 35 years experience teaching urban studies and planning courses and am the co-editor of The City Reader and the Routledge urban reader series. He served as director of the SFSU Urban Studies Program for 12 years and has experience organizing conferences and writing grant proposals. Last year he co-authored a Chinese Planners Guide to Western Planning Literature with Tingwei Zhang and presented it to the IACP conference in Beijing. He plans to make Chinese planning a central focus of his research and writing in the future.

 

Recent consulting and applied research

2002. Visiting lecturer, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. Lecturing on environmental protection management to public administration students and government officials.

2001 – 2002. PI for a two-year $ 350,000 study of Alameda County Transit District riders for the AC Transit district in fall.

2001. CSU faculty fellow for the speaker of the California Assembly's commission on regionalism. Fall, 2001 doing research on urban growth management.

2000. Consultant to the Association of Bay Area Governments for study of housing incentives to improve jobs/housing balance for the Bay Area Inter-regional Partnership.

1999. Consultant to the Association of Bay Area Governments for a study of regional homeless financing and governance alternatives for the Bay Area Regional Homeless Initiative.

1996 – 1997. Principal Investigator $100,000 HUD-funded Stanford/SFSU Community Outreach Partnership Center Institutionalization Grant.

1994 – 1996. Principal Investigator for SFSU portion of $ 580,000 HUD-funded Berkeley/Stanford/SFSU Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC).  

Other research and consulting for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, California State Department of Housing and Community Development, Ford Foundation, Brookings Institution, San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Community Development, City of Brisbane, Poverty and Race Research Action Council, BayVision 2020, City of Hayward California.

 

Recent curriculum development and faculty workshop grants and activities

Spring, 2008 visiting scholar, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Spring 2008, visiting scholar, Charles University, Prague Czech Republic.

Spring 2007, Spring 2008 Spatial Literacy in Teaching and Learning (SPLINT) fellowship for one month studying GIS in planning education in the UK.

Spring, 2007 Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant to study GIS in UK planning education.

Spring, 2007 visiting scholar, Geddes Institute, Dundee Scotland.

2003 – present. U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) $ 431,000 Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement/ Educational Materials Development (CCLI-EMD) grant to develop materials to teach undergraduate social science students spatial analysis and data visualization.

2005. Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, Spatial Perspectives for Curriculum Enhancement (SPACE) Program (U.C. Santa Barbara) in collaboration with the University Consortium for GIS (UCGIS). $ 30,000 grant to conduct summer training session to teach social science faculty spatial analysis and GIS.

2005. National Institute for Training in Liberal Education (NITLE). Instructor in NITLE Urban Studies GIS workshop to train social science faculty from small liberal arts colleges spatial thinking and GIS.

1999 – 2000. NSF Division of Undergraduate Education $ 75,000 “Adaptation and Implementation Grant” to develop undergraduate social science research methods materials.

 

Selected Publications

Recent books

The City Reader 4th ed. London. Routledge, 2007. Co-edited with Frederic Stout.

Think Globally, Act Regionally: GIS and Data Visualization for Social Science and Public Policy Research. Redlands. ESRI Press. 2005.

Routledge Urban Reader Series. Co-editor of series of 10 “Urban Readers”, 2001 – present London. Routledge. 2003 – present.

The Development of City Planning. 9 volume edited series on the History of City Planning. London: Thoemmes/Routledge, 1998. Co-edited with Frederic Stout.

 

Recent papers, articles, and book chapters

 The Chinese Planner’s Guide to Western Planning literature. Co-authored with Tingwei Zhang. Urban Planning Forum. Tongji University.

“Information Technology, Spatial Analysis, and Comparative Urban Research”, submitted to the Journal of Planning Research. Fall 2005.

“Teaching Spatially Integrated Research Methods”. ESRI International Users Conference Proceedings. Redlands. ESRI. 2005.

“Using Spatial Data Visualization to Motivate Undergraduate Social Science Students” in American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Invention and Impact: Building Excellence in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education. Washington. AAAS. 2004.

“Housing Planning and Policy” chapter in International City Management Association (ICMA), The Practice of Local Government Planning. Washington. ICMA. 2000. Co-authored with John Landis

“Institutionalizing Univerity Community Partnerships” Journal of Planning Education and Research. Summer, 1998. Co-authored with Gib Robinson.

 

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