Bruce Stiftel
Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, studies collaborative governance of environmental policy and international development. He was president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (USA), and founding chair of the Global Planning Education Association Network. He is chair of UN-Habitat's Planners for Climate Action working group on research.
Biography
Bruce Stiftel is Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology [USA] where he served as founding chair of the School of City and Regional Planning. He was founding chair of the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN), and served UN-Habitat as a member of expert groups on the International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning, and the World Cities Report 2016. He chairs UN-Habitat’s Planners for Climate Action, Working Group on Research and Knowledge. Former president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and associate dean of graduate studies at Florida State University, he is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and member of the editorial boards of International Planning Studies, Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy, Journal of the American Planning Association, Planning Theory, and Town Planning Review.Education
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PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MRP, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BS, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Stiftel's work concerns collaborative governance of environmental policy and international movement of urban planning ideas.
Websites
Books
Articles
Community design and revitalization to promote health: the track record after 20 years.
Published: Apr 13, 2023 by Journal of the American Planning Association
Authors: Nisha Botchwey, Bruce Stiftel, Christopher Coutts, Catherine Ross, and Olivia Chatman.
Subjects:
Environment and Sustainability, Urban Planning
This “Community Design and Revitalization to Promote Health: The Track Record After 20 Years” special issue features articles that scrutinize the implementation and results of interventions promoting public health across the built environment fields.
Improving global planning education by centering the experience of international students in U.S. and Canadian planning schools
Published: Aug 01, 2022 by Journal of Planning Education and Research
Authors: Yingling Fan, Lesli Hoey, Ashok Das, Clara Irazábal, Bruce Stiftel, Gavin Shatkin, Francis Owusu, Petra Doan, Yiping Fan
Subjects:
Education, Urban Planning
Examines ways to better support international students in U.S. and Canadian planning schools based on a survey and focus groups conducted by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Global Planning Education Committee (GPEC). Suggests the need for greater mentorship; explicit recognition in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts; tailored professional development; and more holistic support systems.
Planners and the New Urban Agenda: will we lead the agenda, or will the agenda lead us?
Published: Jun 01, 2021 by Town Planning Review
Authors: Bruce Stiftel
Subjects:
Urban Planning
The U.N. New Urban Agenda has created a playbook for planning advocates. It opens possibilities for building inclusive, integrated urban planning in countries where planning has been top-down and limited in scope. Yet it raises concerns about ignoring the power of industry and imposition of global ideas inappropriate to national contexts. Success will require strengthening capacity building for the urban professions, and sensitivity in adapting global best practices to national contexts.
Transport systainability in the United States: leading from below
Published: Jan 30, 2020 by J Comparative Urban Law and Policy
Authors: Catherine Ross, Chisun Yoo and Bruce Stiftel
Subjects:
Environment and Sustainability, Urban Planning
This article develops a better understanding of the recent trends and progress toward sustainable transportation in the United States. We examine transport sustainability trends and develop indicators for the ten largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the United States.
With, not for: Dave Godschalk and citizen participation
Published: Jan 30, 2018 by Journal of the American Planning Association
Authors: Bruce Stiftel
Subjects:
Political Science, Urban Planning
Reviews contributions to citizen participation theory and practice by David R. Godschalk.
Of what meaning: journal prominence?
Published: Mar 30, 2011 by Journal of Planning Education and Research
Authors: Bruce Stiftel
Subjects:
Urban Planning
Addresses the usefulness of bibliometrics in faculty evaluation, school performance assessment and strategic planning.
Measuring regional transport sustainability: an exploration
Published: Nov 30, 2010 by Urban Lawyer
Authors: Catherine L. Ross, Bruce Stiftel, Myungje Woo and Arthi Rao
Subjects:
Environment and Sustainability, Urban Planning
Asks how urban regions in the USA are confronting the challenge of sustainable transportation and how to improve measurement and implementation of sustainable transportation systems.
Multiple objectives in planning school performance measurement: Can planners scholarship be meaningfully assessed at the national level?
Published: Sep 30, 2009 by Journal of Planning Education and Research
Authors: Bruce Stiftel, Ann Forsyth, Linda Dalton and Frederick Steiner
Subjects:
Urban Planning
Recent developments surrounding planning school assessment in U.S. planning schools are considered in light of the history of university unit performance measurement internationally, and suggestions are made for development of a robust system of planning school assessment that includes the breadth of academic planners’ work.
Planning the paths of planning schools
Published: Jan 30, 2009 by Australian Planner
Authors: Bruce Stiftel
Subjects:
Urban Planning
Traces the history of planning education in its unplanned past, examines the pressures facing planning schools today, and suggests attitudes and tools we might adopt to balance competing objectives, learn more effectively as a discipline, and apply our own planning practice skills to the choices we face about our own futures.
Remarks on receiving the Jay Chatterjee Award
Published: Dec 30, 2008 by Journal of Planning Education and Research
Authors: Bruce Stiftel
Subjects:
Urban Planning
Reflects on the importance of the planning schools movement in fulfilling objectives of associations of schools and of a learned societies.