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Sy Adler's Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE


Sy Adler
September, 2011


Education

 

  • Ph. D.   1980   City and Regional Planning

                 University of California, Berkeley

  • MCP   1973     City Planning

                 Harvard University

  • B.A.   1971     Urban Studies

                 University of Pittsburgh

Employment

  • 7/96-12/00   Director, School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
  • 9/92-             Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University. 
  • 9/87-6/92     Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University.
  • 9/82-6/87     Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University.
  • 3/80-6/82     Regional Planner, Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning.

Publications

Books

  • 1997    Carl Abbott, Sy Adler, and Margery Abbott, Planning a New West:  The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Corvallis, OR:  Oregon State University Press.
  • 1994    Carl Abbott, Deborah Howe, and Sy Adler, eds., Planning the Oregon Way,  Corvallis, OR:  Oregon State University Press.

Chapters

  • 2011    and J. Brenner, M. Frisch, L. Knopp and M. Lauria, “Reflections on Classic Articles on Planning and LGBT Communities.” In Petra Doan, ed., Queerying Planning:  Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice. Ashgate, 2011.
  • 2005    and Johanna Brenner, “Gender and Space:  Lesbians and Gay Men in the City.”  In Jan Lin and Christopher Mele, eds., The Urban Sociology Reader.  Routledge, 2005.
  • 2004    and Jennifer Dill, “The Evolution of Transportation Planning in the Portland Metropolitan Area.”  In Connie Ozawa, ed., The Portland Edge.  Covelo, CA:  Island Press.
  • 1994    "The Oregon Approach to Integrating Transportation and Land Use Planning."  In Carl Abbott, Deborah Howe, and Sy Adler, eds., Planning the Oregon Way,  Corvallis, OR:  Oregon State University Press. 
  • 1993    "The Evolution of Federal Transit Policy.”  In Martin Melosi, ed., Urban Public Policy:  Historical Modes and Methods, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • 1990    and Sheldon Edner, "Governing and Managing Multi-Modal Regional Transit Agencies in a Multicentric Era."  In George M. Guess, ed., Public Policy and Transit System Management, Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press.

Articles

  • 2009    Ellen Shoshkes and Sy Adler, “Planning for Healthy People/Healthy Places: Lessons from mid-20th Century Global Discourse.” Planning Perspectives, Volume 24, Number 2:  197-217.
  • 2008    and Noelle Dobson, Karen Perl Fox, and Lynn Weigand, “Advocates and Active Living on the Rural-Urban Fringe:  A Case Study of Planning in the Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Area.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Volume 33, Number 3:  525-558.
  • 2007    Noelle Dobson, Sy Adler, Karen Perl Fox and Lynn Weigand, “Advocating for Active Living on the Rural-Urban Fringe,”  Planning Magazine, Volume 73, Number 2:  A-5.
  • 2004    Deborah Howe, Carl Abbott, and Sy Adler, “What's on the Horizon for Oregon Planners?” Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 70, Number 4:  391-397.
  • 2004    Mark Bello and Sy Adler, “Banning the ‘Snout House’:  The Politics of Design in Portland, Oregon.”  Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Volume 21, Number 3:  193-208.
  • 2003    Carl Abbott, Sy Adler, Deborah Howe, “A Quiet Counterrevolution in Land Use Regulation:  The Origins and Impacts of Oregon’s Ballot Measure 7.” Housing Policy Debate, Volume 14, Number 3:  383-425.
  • 2002    J. C. Jo and Sy Adler, “North Korean Planning:  Urban Changes and Regional Balance.”  Cities, Volume 19, Number 3:  205-215.
  • 2002    Jin Cheol Jo and Sy Adler, “Planning in the socialist developing country:  the case of North Korea.”  Habitat International  26:  251-267.
  • 2001    Martha Bianco and Sy Adler, “The Politics of Implementation:  The Corporatist Paradigm Applied to the Implementation of Oregon’s Statewide Transportation Planning Rule.” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 21, Number 1.
  • 1996    Matthew Slavin and Sy Adler, “Legislative Constraints on Gubernatorial State Industrial Policy:  Evidence from Oregon’s Regional Strategies Program.”  Economic Development Quarterly,  Volume 10, Number 3.
  • 1993    "The Evolution of Federal Transit Policy."  Journal of Policy History, Volume 5, Number 1. (Reprinted in Martin Melosi, ed., Urban Public Policy:  Historical Modes and Methods, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.)
  • 1992    and Sheldon Edner, "Challenges Confronting Metropolitan Portland's Transportation Decision System."  Transportation Research Record, Number 1364.
  • 1992    and Johanna Brenner, "Gender and Space:  Lesbians and Gay Men in the City."  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 16, Number 1. (Reprinted in Jan Lin and Christopher Mele, eds., The Urban Sociology Reader.  Routledge, 2005.)
  • 1991    "The Transformation of the Pacific Electric Railway:  Bradford Snell, Roger Rabbit, and the Politics of Transportation in Los Angeles."  Urban Affairs Quarterly, Volume 27, Number 1.
  • 1990    "Environmental Movement Politics, Mandates to Plan, and Professional Planners:  The Dialectics of Discretion in Planning Practice."  Journal of     Architectural and Planning Research,  Volume 7, Number 4.
  • 1990    Sharon Baggett and Sy Adler, "Regulating the Residential Care Industry:  Historical Precedents and Current Dilemmas."  Journal of Aging and Social Policy, Volume 2, Number 1.
  • 1990    and Gerald Blake, "The Effects of a Formal Citizen Participation Program on Involvement in the Planning Process:  A Case Study of Portland, Oregon."  State and Local Government Review, Volume 22, Number 1.
  • 1989    Carl Abbott and Sy Adler, "History in Planning Analysis." Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 55, Number 4.
  • 1988    "Infrastructure Politics:  The Dynamics of Crossing San Francisco Bay."  The Public Historian, Volume 10, Number 4.
  • 1988    "A Comparative Analysis of Rail Transit Politics, Policy and Planning in Canada and the United States."  The Logistics and Transportation Review, Volume 24, Number 3.
  • 1988    and Sheldon Edner, "Technological Change in Urban Transport Organizations."  Public Productivity Review, Volume 12, Number 2.
  • 1988    “Why BART but no ‘LART’?  The Political Economy of Rail Rapid Transit Planning in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Metropolitan Areas, 1945-1957.”  Planning Perspectives, Volume 2, Number 2.
  • 1987    “The New Information Technology and the Structure of Planning Practice.”  Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 6, Number 2.
  • 1986    “The Dynamics of Transit Innovation in Los Angeles.”  Environment and Planning D:  Society and Space, Volume 4:  321-355.

Book Reviews

  • 2007    Review of Zachary Schrag, The Great Society Subway:  A History of the Washington Metro, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.  Journal of American History.  Volume 93, Number 4.
  • 2006    Review of Gregory Crowley, The Politics of Place:  Contentious Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.  Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 26, Number 1.
  • 1998    Review of Greg Hise, Magnetic Los Angeles:  Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.  Pacific Historical Review, Volume 67, Number 4.
  • 1997    Review of Bruce McClendon and Anthony Catanese, eds., Planners on Planning:  Leading Planners Offer Real-Life Lessons on What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why,  Jossey-Bass, 1996.  Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 63, Number 2.
  • 1994    Review of Clifton Hood, 722 Miles:  How the Subways Shaped New York City, Simon and Schuster, 1993.  Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 14, Number 1.
  • 1988    Review of Scott Bottles, Los Angeles and the Automobile:  The Making of the Modern City, University of California Press, 1987.  Environment and Planning D:  Society and Space, Volume 6, Number 2.

Completed Works   

  • Sy Adler, Carl Abbott, and Margery Abbott, “The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. – Regional Planning for the New West.”  A chapter in Carleton Montgomery, ed., Regional Planning for a Sustainable America.  Forthcoming from Rutgers University Press in 2011.
  • Oregon Plans:  The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution.  Forthcoming in 2012 from Oregon State University Press.

Research Monographs

  • 2003    and Julie Odell, Assessment of the Community GIS Initiative.  Prepared for Ford Foundation.
  • 2002    and Connie Ozawa, Pleasant Valley Concept Plan:  Project Evaluation.  Prepared for Metro.
  • 1997    and Carl Abbott, Conflict and Cooperation on the Metropolitan Frontier:  The Politics of Regional Growth Management in the Pacific Northwest.  Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
  • 1988    Sheldon Edner, Sy Adler and Peter Morris, Challenges Confronting Metropolitan Portland's Transportation Decision-Making Regime.  TRANS/NOW.
  • 1986    Understanding the Dynamics of Innovation in Urban Transit.  United States Department of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration.
  • 1980    The Political Economy of Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1963.  United States Department of Transportation.  Urban Mass Transportation Administration.

Conference Papers and Presentations

  • 2010    Andree Tremoulet and Sy Adler.  “Unlikely Alliance: How Oregon Addressed Exclusionary Zoning in the 1970s.”  Presented at Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 2010    Sy Adler, Deborah Howe, Connie Ozawa, “Planning Studios as Incubators for Ethical Professional Practice.”  Presented at Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 2009    “The 1973 Oregon State Land Use Planning Law in Conceptual and Comparative Perspective.”  Presented at Society for American City and Regional Planning History Conference.
  • 2009    “Oregon’s Statewide Planning Goals in Historical Perspective.”  Presented at Association of European Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 2008    “Planners, Environmentalists and Lawyers, and the Politics of Land Use Legislation in Oregon.”  Presented at International Planning History Society Conference.
  • 2008    “The Politics of Adopting Oregon’s Statewide Land Use Planning Goals.”  Presented at Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 2007    “Lawyers, Planners, Lawyer/Planners:  The Dynamics of Land Use Planning in Oregon.”  Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 2007    “Watchdog Emerging:  The Pre-History of 1000 Friends of Oregon.”  Presented at Urban Affairs Association Conference.
  • 2006    Ellen Shoshkes and Sy Adler, “Planning for Healthy People/Healthy Places: Lessons from mid-20th Century Global Discourse.  Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 2003    “The Evolution of Transportation Planning in the Portland Metropolitan Area.”  Presented at the AESOP-ACSP Joint Conference.
  • 2001    Roundtable Presentation:  “Oregon’s Ballot Measure 7.”  Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 1997    "Planners and Angry Citizens:  The Portland Planning Bureau and the Dynamics of Increasing Density."  Presented at the Association of Collegiate School of Planning Conference.
  • 1996    Roundtable Presentation:  “Toronto as a Capital of Good Planning:  Canadian and U.S. Perspectives.”  Presented at the Association of Collegiate School of Planning Conference.
  • 1995    "Implementing Oregon's Statewide Transportation Planning Rule:  The Dynamics of Conflict and Cooperation Within the Community of Planners."  Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 1994    "Pushing the Envelope of Planning Practice:  Citizen Activists, Professional Planners, and the Politics of Transportation Modeling in the Portland Metropolitan Area."  Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 1993    "Planners as Educators:  The Portland Planning Bureau's Livable City Project."  Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 1992    "The Oregon Approach to Integrating Transportation and Land Use Planning."  Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 1992    "The Oregon Approach to Integrating Transportation and Land Use Planning."  Presented at the Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting.
  • 1990    "The Evolution of Transportation Planning Practice."  Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 1988    "Institutional and Professional Issues in Planning Theory and Practice."  Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
  • 1988    Invited Participant, International Conference on Research on Planning Practice, Cornell University.

Grants, Fellowships and Prizes

  • 2008    Gift from John Gray to support research and writing about the history of the Oregon Land Use Planning program ($9,500).
  • 2007    Recipient, Excellence in Departmental Civic Engagement Award, Center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University.
  • 2001    The Impact of Ballot Measure 7 on Statewide Land Use Planning in Oregon.  Co-Principal Investigators Carl Abbott, Sy Adler, and Deborah Howe.  Fannie Mae Foundation.  (Funded, $9,000)
  • 2001    Community GIS Initiative.  Project Evaluator for this Ford Foundation-supported effort at PSU’s Institute for Portland Metropolitan Studies (Funded, $259,000).
  • 1999    Urban Reserve Planning for the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Region.  Professor Connie Ozawa, co-investigator.  Metro contract funded through a grant to Metro from the Federal Highway Administration’s Transportation and Community and System Preservation Pilot Program (Funded, $57,000).
  • 1997     Conflict and Cooperation on the Metropolitan Frontier:  The Politics of Regional Growth Management in the Pacific Northwest.   Professor Carl Abbott, co-investigator.  Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Funded, $8,331).
  • 1996    Oregon Policy Seminar.  Professor Carl Abbott, co-investigator.  PSU Faculty Development Program     (Funded, $1,700).
  • 1993    Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize for the best scholarly paper ("The Transformation of the Pacific Electric Railway...") 1991-1993.  Society for American City and Regional Planning History.
  • 1991    Implementing Design Review in the Portland Metropolitan Area.  Professor Stefano Zegretti, co-investigator.  University Committee on Research and Publications (Funded, $1,000).
  • 1991    A Comparative Analysis of Planning Theory and Practice in the Pacific Northwest.  PSU Faculty Development Program (Funded, $2,300).
  • 1989    Transportation Decision-Making Processes in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area.  TRANS/NOW. Professor Sheldon Edner, co-investigator.  (Funded, $33,000). 
  • 1988    Policy Implementation Issues in the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area.  Professors Carl Abbott and Sheldon Edner, co-investigators.  PSU Faculty Development Program (Funded, $2,200).

Teaching

Urban Planning Courses:

  • History and Theory of Planning
  • Introduction to Urban Planning
  • Planning Theory Seminar
  • Planning Workshop

Urban Studies Courses:

  • The Sociology and Politics of Urban Life
  • The Sociology and Politics of Urban Life:  Advanced Readings
  • Marxism and the City

Community Development Courses:

  • Theory and Philosophy of Community Development
  • Community Development Seminar
  • Substantive Policy Courses:
  • Healthy Communities

Freshman Inquiry Course:

  • Portland

Dissertation Committees

  • Nine currently active.
  • Chair:  3
  • Member:  6
  • Committee chair for thirty-six completed Ph.D. dissertations to date.   

Service to Profession

  • 2011    Planning Accreditation Board Site Visitor, Arizona State University.
  • 2010    Moderator, Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association-sponsored Panel Discussion.  Metro Council President Candidates.
  • 2008-    Oregon State University Press Editorial Board member.
  • 2008    Roundtable Organizer, Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association Conference.  Creativity and Professional Planning Practice-An International Perspective.
  • 2008    Presentation about the political history of the Oregon land use planning program.  Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association Planning Commissioner Training Program.  Webcast.
  • 2005    Volunteer Service Award presented by Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association.
  • 1998-2004    Deborah Howe, Carl Abbott, and Sy Adler, Co-Editors, Journal of the American Planning Association.  (Approximately $200,000 grant funding from American Planning Association during this period).
  • 1993-1998    Deborah Howe, Carl Abbott, and Sy Adler, Book Review Co-Editors, Journal of the American Planning Association.  Approximately $85,000 grant funding from American Planning Association during this period).
  • 1992-    Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research.
  • 1990    Member, Awards Committee, Oregon Chapter, American Planning Association.

Article Referee

  • Policy Studies Journal
  • Antipode
  • Urban Affairs Quarterly/Review
  • Planning Perspectives
  • Environment and Planning A
  • Environment and Planning D:  Society and Space
  • Journal of Architectural and Planning Research
  • Journal of Environmental Planning and Mgmt.
  • Journal of Planning Education and Research
  • State and Local Government Review
  • Journal of Policy History
  • Journal of the American Planning Association

Service

University Service

  • 2011-    Member, PSU-AAUP Collective Bargaining Team
  • 2010-    Community Studies Upper Division Cluster Coordinator
  • 2006-2007    Member, PSU-AAUP Executive Council (Past President)
  • 2005-2006    Member, Campus Master Plan Committee
  • 2004-2005    Member, Ad-Hoc Committee on the Summer Session
  • 2004-2006    President, PSU-AAUP.
  • 2004-2005    Member, Accreditation Self-Study Sub-committee:  Standard 7 – Finance.
  • 2003    Member, University Budget and Priorities Committee
  • 2002-2004    Member, AAUP Executive Council.
  • 2001-2005    Community Studies Upper Division Cluster Coordinator
  • 1999    Member, Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Cross-Listed and Omnibus-Numbered Courses.
  • 1996-2001    Designer and Coordinator, Healthy People/Healthy Places Upper Division Cluster
  • 1996-1999    Member, Intercollegiate Athletics Board of the Faculty Senate.
  • 1996    Recipient, American Association of University Professors Faculty Service Award.
  • 1994-1996    Vice-President for Collective Bargaining, American     Association of University Professors.
  • 1994-1995    Member, Search committee for Environmental Science/Studies positions.
  • 1994-1995    Member, Ad-hoc committee to design an Environmental Studies Major.
  • 1993    AAUP representative, Joint AAUP/Administration Committee on Faculty Productivity.
  • 1993    AAUP representative, University Budget Reduction Team.
  • 1992    AAUP representative, University Budget Reduction Team.
  • 1992-1995    Member, University Planning Council.
  • 1992-1994    Member, AAUP Executive Council.
  • 1990-1992    Vice-President for Collective Bargaining, American     Association of University Professors.
  • 1989    Member, Collective Bargaining Team, AAUP.
  • 1988    Chair, Joint AAUP/Administration Committee on Salary Merit Pay Guidelines.

School/College Service

  • 1/11-5/11    Chair, Search Committee for SUSP position
  • 1/11-    Coordinator, Urban Studies Doctoral Program
  • 1/11-    Member, Urban Studies Executive Committee
  • 1/11-5/11    Member, Division of Criminology and Criminal Justice Promotion and Tenure Committee
  • 4/10-12/10    Member, School of Community Health Search Committee
  • 9/09-12/10    Member, MURP Executive Committee
  • 9/09-3/10    Member, Search Committee for SUSP position
  • 9/08-3/09    Chair, Search Committee for SUSP position
  • 9/07-    Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee. (Chair, 9/08-6/09)
  • 9/07-6/09    Member, Urban Studies Executive Committee. (Chair, 9/08-6/09)
  • 1/06-3/06    Member, Search Committee for Urban Studies and Planning Position.
  • 1/05-3/05    Member, CUPA Dean’s Promotion and Tenure Committee
  • 1/04-6/04    Member, MURP Executive Committee.
  • 9/03-6/04    Member, Urban Studies Admissions Committee.
  • 7/02-8/03        Coordinator, MURP and Undergraduate Curricula.
  • 6/02-4/03    Member, Search Committee for Urban Studies and Planning Position.
  • 1/01-6/02        PhD Program Coordinator.
  • 9/95-6/96    Chair, Faculty Evaluation Committee.
  • 1994     Member, Search committee for Urban Studies and Planning Position.
  • 1994-1995    Dean's Ad-hoc committee on the PhD programs.
  • 1994-1995    Dean's Ad-hoc committee to design an Undergraduate Urban Studies Major.
  • 9/92-6/94    Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee.
  • 9/91-6/92    Chair, PhD Admission Committee.
  • 9/90-6/91    Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee.
  • 9/87-6/89    Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee (Chair, 9/88-6/89).
  • 6/85-3/93    Chair, MURP Faculty Group.

Community Service

  • 2011    Consultant to the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development on the design of a series of Urban Forums.
  • 2009    Testimony to Oregon House of Representatives Land Use Committee on the History of the Oregon Land Use Planning Program.
  • 2008    Consultant to Oregon University System Land Use Project.  Contributed to the design of a set of studies that evaluated the implementation of several Oregon statewide land use planning goals.  Consulted with the authors of studies of the Citizen Participation goal and the Urbanization goal done as part of the Land Use Project.
  • 2008    Presentation to Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development staff about the political history of the statewide planning goals.
  • 2008    Presentation about Ballot Measures 37 and 49.  Oregon State University Land Use Explorer Project.  Videotaped and available on the Project website
  • 2008    Presentation about The History and Fundamentals of Planning in Oregon.  The Planning Commissioner Training Series, jointly sponsored by the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association and PSU Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning.  Videotaped and available on the OAPA website
  • 2005-2006    Consultant to Active Living by Design Partnership.
  • 1994-1997    Member, Tri-Metropolitan Transit District Citizens Advisory Committee on the Budget.
  • 1991    Participant, Governor's Conversation with Oregon.
  • 1990    Consultant to the Quinault Indian Nation.
  • 1989    Member, Citizen Advisory Committee, Portland Police Bureau Central Precinct.
  • 1989    Taught Urban Transportation Policy course for Tri-Met management personnel.
  • 1987-1991    Executive Board Member, Downtown Community Association, Portland.