CORE PLANNING FACULTY John Paul Jones III, Professor and Department Head of Geography and Regional Development and Director of Planning Degree Program; Ph.D., 1984, Ohio State University. Research interests lie at the intersection of human geography, social science methodology, and social theory. His work has examined theories of identity, representation, and space. He served as editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers from 1996-2000, and for the next two years was the journal's People, Place, and Region section editor. He serves on the editorial board of ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies and edits Blackwell's Critical Geographies book series. With Sue Roberts (Univ. of Kentucky), and Oliver Froehling (Univ. de la Tierra, Oaxaca, Mexico) "Transnational Networks of NGOs" the National Science Foundation recently funded his work on "Transnational Networks of NGOs". Dr. Jones' website is at http://geog.arizona.edu/people/jones.php Laura Huntoon, Associate Professor of Planning; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1991. Specializes in regional planning in an international and borderlands context. Her interests include planning of the built environment, the role of nonprofits in planning, economic development, and migration. She has worked as a planner in Seville, Spain and served as an advisor to the Spanish Ministry of Labor's Forum for the Integration of Immigrants. She has worked on urban revitalization plans in Panama City, Panama and Tijuana, México. Her migration research is on the role of self-help associations and nonprofits in immigrant adaptation. Her current regional planning research analyzes the spatial impact of large-scale events. She has done extensive consulting in the hotel and tourism industries. Dr. Huntoon is a member of the American Planning Association, Arizona Planning Association, Association of American Geographers and the Regional Science Association International. She serves as the Regional Planning Track Chair for the American Collegiate Schools of Planning annual meetings and is a board member of the European Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. Gary Pivo, Professor of Planning, Professor of Natural Resources, Senior Fellow, Office of Economic Development; Master of Regional Planning, 1979, Cornell University, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, 1987, U.C., Berkeley. Fields of specialization include land use, transportation, infrastructure, growth management, open space, and public lands. Current research includes socially responsible real estate investing, urban encroachment on national parks, and industrial ecology. For Dr. Pivo's curriculum vitae and selected publications see his website at www.u.arizona.edu/~gpivo/. Sandra Rosenbloom, Dr. Sandra Rosenbloom is Professor of Planning, Adjunct Professor of Natural Renewable Resources, Adjunct Professor of Gerontology, and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. She served as Director of the Roy P. Drachman Institute for Land and Regional Development Studies, a research and public service unit of the University, from 1990 - 2004. Dr. Rosenbloom has a Masters in Public Policy and a PhD in Political Science from UCLA. She has been at the University of Arizona since 1990; prior to that she held an endowed Chair as the David Bruton Centennial Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Texas, Austin. She is internationally known for her scholarship on the transportation and community development implications of societal trends, particularly suburbanization, the aging of society, the increasing labor force involvement of women with children, and the growth of groups with special needs. She is also an acknowledged expert on the role of the private sector in the provision of public services. Her research has been funded by US, Australian, New Zealand, and European agencies and organizations. ADJUNCT PLANNING FACULTY Dr. Maeveen Behan, J.D.,University of Alabama School of Law. Ph.D., University of Arizona. Maveen is the Deputy Director of Natural Resources of the Pima County Parks and Recreation Department. Her outstanding work leading the Pima County Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan has been recognized by the American Planning Association and the Ahwahnee Award in Regional Initiatives. She has also been recognized for her advocacy in civil rights. Her vast experience and interest in conservation and preservation tied to land use makes her an interesting and well informed instructor. Michael Bradley, Associate Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources; Ph.D., 1973, University of Michigan. Interests are water resources policy and management, the political science of ground water, water law and rights, natural resources management, international resources and water development, using scientific and technical information in adjudication and public policy processes, bargaining and negotiation strategies in large-scale resources and water conflicts, jurisdictional issues in water resources transfer and marketing, appraising water resources for economic and social value, the tactical use of scientific and technical expert witnesses, and Native American Indian water rights. Arthur Silvers, Professor of Public Administration and Policy (retired); Ph.D., 1972, University of Pennsylvania. Regional science, policy analysis, urban and regional planning, Latin American urban and regional planning, U.S.-Mexico borderlands labor and migration issues, public and policy economics, formation of public policy, the legal, social and political environment of business, analytic methods in planning and management, quantitative methods for administrators. Charles (Corky) Poster, AICP, Associate Professor of Architecture; M.Arch, Harvard, 1973. Community design, community participation in neighborhood planning, site programming and planning, social architecture in historical contexts, facilities for the homeless, neo-traditional community design, homes and housing for the poor and homeless, low-cost/low-income housing, resolving locational conflicts, architectural design issues, design and planning in Latin America, locational conflict in low cost housing. Lawrence Mann, AICP, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., 1961, Harvard University. Fields of interest are planning theory and history, metropolitan and regional planning, community development, growth controls, land development process, U.S.-Mexico borderlands planning, planning in Latin America (Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Peru), planning in Europe (France, Sweden, the Netherlands), land use and infrastructure planning. Dr. Mann is the former Chair of the Department of Urban & Regional Planning at Harvard University and Chair of the Division of Urban Studies & Community Development at Rutgers University. Honored for his service to the Arizona State Board of Appraisal. AFFILIATE PLANNING FACULTY Arlan Colton has spent over 20 years in the planning profession after receiving his M.S. in Planning from the University of Arizona. He is currently the Director of Planning for Pima County. Arlan has worked in a broad range of positions for the Tucson Airport Authority, the Arizona State Land Department, and for Pima County. He staffed the 1999 Growing Smarter Commission and helped to develop portions of the 1998 and 2000 Growing Smarter Acts. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a past president of the Arizona Planning Association, and a former national board member of the American Planning Association. Frank Cassidy has been the Town Attorney of the Town of Marana since July 2003. A 1982 graduate of the University of Arizona College of Law, Frank has been a Principal Assistant City Attorney for the City of Tucson, a Deputy Pima County Attorney, an associate with the Tucson office of Winston & Strawn, and a partner with the Tucson office of Gust Rosenfeld. Frank teaches Land Use Law as an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona. He has advised clients and handled administrative procedures and litigation involving a wide range of land use and public works construction issues. Grace Evans, M.S. in Planning, University of Tennessee, 1968. Former Assistant Planning Director for Current Planning, City of Tucson. Neighborhood planning, zoning, development plan review, citizen and community group involvement in planning process, management of staff and administration of planning activities, and relationship with local elected officials. William Patrick O'Brien, Intermountain Regional Desert Southwest Ecosystem Study Unit of the National Park Service; PhD., 1994 University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. O'Brien facilitates the partnership of member universities with the Desert Southwest National Parks. He has extensive experience win cultural resource conservation, historic preservation planning, and historic research. He is instrumental in bringing students and projects together. He teaches Historic Preservation and is a member of numberous student committees in Planning. David A. Plane , Professor of Geography and Regional Development; Ph.D. 1981, University of Pennsylvania. Interests are in the area of population geography, focusing on U.S. migration and settlement patterns and on methods for modeling temporal change in spatial interaction systems. In 2001-2002 he was a Visiting Researcher in Population Division at the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington, D.C., whee he also had worked as a Statistician and NSF/ASA Research Fellow in 1979-1980. Rebecca Ruopp, Adjunct Lecturer in Planning; M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy, Tufts University, 1996. Rebecca Rupp has been a project manager, a lead planner, an editor, a writer, a program developer, and a facilitator. She has worked for both public and private clients, with multi-disciplinary teams and undertaken projects as a solo practitioner. Her project involvement ranges from feasibility studies, master planning, community vision studies, context sensitive planning, and design environmental impact assessments, permit preparation, transportation planning, regulatory and policy evaluation, and public involvement program development. Stephen R. Yool, Associate Professor of Geography and Regional Development; Ph.D. 1985, University of California, Santa Barbara. Interests are biophysical/bioenvironmental geography and disturbance, particularly fire and disease. He incorporates remote sensing and spatial information systems in understanding processes producing natural spatial patterns, and the effects disturbance on these processes and patterns. He has done such projects as GIS development and support for Fort Huachuca and studies for EPA and NASA using GIS. To receive information about the Planning Degree Program, please contact: Planning Degree Program Harvill, Room 341D University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0076 Phone: 1+ 520.621.9597 FAX: 1+ 520.621.9820 Email us: planning@u.arizona.edu