PETER GORDON

 

                                                                Curriculum Vitae

 

 

School of Policy, Planning, and Development & Department of Economics

University of Southern California

331 Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall

Los Angeles, California  90089-0626

(213) 740-1467;  FAX (213) 740-6170;  pgordon@usc.edu

 

 

PRESENT APPOINTMENT

 

Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California

Professor, Department of Economics, University of Southern California

 

Director, Master of Real Estate Development Program, School of Planning, Policy, and Development, University of Southern California

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1971                Ph.D. Regional Science

University of Pennsylvania

1967                MA Economics

University of Southern California

1965                BA Economics

University of California, Los Angeles

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

 

Previous Faculty and Administrative Appointments at USC

 

Dean, School of Urban and Regional Planning, 1992 - 94

Associate Dean, School of Urban and Regional Planning, 1987 - 1992; 1994 - 96

Director of Research, The Planning Institute, 1982 - 1992

Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning and Economics, 1977 - 1989

Assistant Professor, Urban and Regional Planning and Economics, 1971 B 1977

Additional Activities and Appointments

 

Co-Editor, Planning and Markets  (www-pam.usc.edu)

 

Fellow and Faculty Associate, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1995-96

Visiting Lecturer, UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Winter 1981

Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1978

 

 

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

 

Consulting

 

The World Bank, The United Nations, agencies of federal, state and local government, private and non-profit groups.

 

 

Membership in Professional Societies and Groups

 

Board Member, Western Regional Science Association, 2002-

Annals of Regional Science, Editorial Board, 1997-

State of California Transportation Board Advisory Committee, 1977 - 1979

Transportation Research Board, Committee of Urban Activity Systems, 1981 - 1983

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Editorial Board, 1983 - 1987

 

 

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

 

 

Published Papers Since 1990

 

2001    “The Sprawl Debate:  Let Markets Plan” (with Harry Richardson), Publius, 31:3, 131-149.

 

2001    "Transportation and Land Use" (with Harry Richardson) in Randall Holcombe and Sam Staley (eds.) Smarter Growth:  Market-Based Strategies for Land Use Planning in the 21st Century.  Westport, Conn:  Greenwood Press.

 

2001    "Integrating Transportation Network and Regional Economic Models to Estimate the Costs of a Large Urban Earthquake" (with Sungbin Cho, et al.), Journal of Regional Science 41:1, 39-65.

 

2001    AHayek and Cities:  Guidelines for Regional Scientists@ (with Harry Richardson) in Michael L. Lahr and Ronald E. Miller (eds.) Regional science perspectives in economic analysis:  a festschrift in memory of Benjamin H. Stevens, 1st edition. Amsterdam:  New York – Elsevier.

 

2001    "Private Zoning" (with Michael Keston) Urban Land 60:1, 12-13.

 

2001    "Compactness or Sprawl:  America's Future vs. the Present" (with Harry Richardson) in M. Echenique and A. Saints (eds.) Cities for the New Millenium.  London:  Spon Press.

 

2000.   "The Economic Impacts of the Citizen's Growth Management Initiative of 2000 in Arizona" (with Harry Richardson) in Papers and Proceedings of the International Workshop on Urban Growth Management Policies of Korea, Japan and the USA.  Seoul: Seoul National University.

 

2000    ADefending Suburban Sprawl@  (with Harry Richardson) The Public Interest No. 139, 65-71.

 

2000      "Analyzing Transportation Reconstruction Network Strategies:  A Full Cost Approach" (with Sungbin Cho, et al.) Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, 12:3, 212-227.

 

2000    Critiquing Sprawl's Critics. (with Harry Richardson).  Washington DC:  Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 365.

 

1999    "The Effects of Earthquakes on Highway Infrastructure Productivity" (with Masanobu Shinozuka, et al.) in H. Kameda and I.M. Friedland (eds.) Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Strategies.  Buffalo:  MCEER.

 

1999    AReview Essay: Los Angeles, City of Angels?  No, City of Angles@ (with Harry Richardson) Urban Studies 36:3, 575-591.

 

1998    AProve It@ (with Harry Richardson) The Brookings Review 16:4, 23-25.

 

1998    AHousehold Commuting@ (with Harry Richardson and Yu-chun Liao) in D.F. Batten et al (eds.) Network Infrastructure and the Urban Environment: Recent Advances in Land Use/Transportation Modeling.   New York: Springer.

 

1998    AWorld Cities in North America: Structural Change and Future Challenges@ (with Harry Richardson) in Fu-chen Lo and Yue-man Yeung (eds.) Globalization and the World of Large Cities.  Tokyo: United Nations University Press.

 

1998    ATransport-Related Impacts of the Northridge Earthquake@ (with Harry Richardson and Bill Davis) Journal of Transportation and Statistics 1:2, 21-36.

 

1998    AFarmland Preservation and Ecological Footprints: A Critique (with Harry Richardson) Planning and Markets 1,1 (www-pam.usc.edu/).

 

1998    AMetropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Employment Trends in the U.S.: Recent Evidence and Implications Urban Studies, 35, 7: 1037-1057 (with Harry Richardson and Gang Yu)

 

1998    ABicycling in the U.S.: A Fringe Mode?@ (with Harry Richardson) Transportation Quarterly 52:1, p 9-12.

 

1997    AThe Communications City@ (with Harry Richardson)  Urban Land 10, p. 95.

 

1997    AThe Destiny of Downtowns: Doom or Dazzle?@ (with Harry Richardson) Lusk Review 3:2, p 63-76.

 

1997    AA Note on the Travel Speeds Debate@ (with Harry Richardson and Yu-chun Liao) Transportation Research  31:3, p 259-262.

 

1997    AAre Compact Cities A Desirable Planning Goal?@ (with Harry Richardson)  Journal of the American Planning Association 63:1, 93-104.

 

1996    ABeyond Polycentricity:  The Dispersed Metropolis, Los Angeles, 1970-1980' (with Harry Richardson) in Journal of the American Planning Association 62:3, p 289-95.

 

1996    AEmployment Decentralization in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Is Los Angeles an Outlier or the Norm?@ (with Harry Richardson) Environment and Planning A, 28, p. 1727-1743.

 

1996    AMexico City in the International Economy@ (with Allison Rowland) in Alan Gilbert (ed.) Megacities in Latin America Tokyo: United Nations University.

 

1995    ASustainable Congestion@ in J. Brotchie et al (eds.) Cities in Competition:  The Emergence of Productive and Sustainable Cities for the 21st Century, p 348-358 (with Harry Richardson).

 

1995    AGeographic Factors Explaining Worktrip Length Changes@ in Special Reports on Trip and Vehicle Attributes, Office of Highway Information Management, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (with Harry Richardson).

 

1994    ACongestion Trends in Metropolitan Areas@ Curbing Gridlock:  Peak-Period Fees to Relieve Traffic Congestions, vol., pp. 1-31.  Washington, D.C.:  National Academy Press (with Harry Richardson).

 

1994    ANew Data and Old Models@ Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper (with Harry Richardson).

 

1994    The Counterplan for Transportation in Southern California:  Spend Less, Serve More, Reason Foundation Policy Study No. 174 (with Harry Richardson).

 

1993    The Facts About "Gridlock" in Southern California, Reason Foundation Policy Study No. 165 (with Harry Richardson).

 

1993    Trends in Congestion in Metropolitan Areas.  Prepared for the National Research Council (with Harry Richardson).

 

1993    APride and Prejudice: The Regional and Racial Impacts of Local Growth Control,@ Environment and Planning A Series (with Harry Richardson)

 

1993    AMarket Planning: Oxymoron or Commonsense?@ Journal of the American Planning Association (with Harry Richardson)

 

1992      ATests of the Standard Urban Model: A Micro (trade-off) Alternative@ Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, 4.1, p. 50-66 (with Harry Richardson and Yeol Choi)

 

1991    “Leaping Ahead: Impacts of the Proposed 2020 Plan@ Portus, 6, p. 14-20.

 

1991    APlanning the Trajectories of Land and Development Rights via Discrete Programming Models@ Environment and Planning A, 23, p 1561-1570 (with James Moore).

 

1991    AThe Commuting Paradox:  Evidence from the Top Twenty@  Journal of the American Planning Association, 416, p. 416-420 (with Harry Richardson and Myung-Jin Jun).

 

1990    AA Sequential Programming Model of Urban Land Development@ Socioeconomic Planning Sciences, 24, p. 199-216 (with James Moore).

 

1990    AResidential Property Values, the CBD and Multiple Nodes:  Further Analysis@  Environment and Planning A, 22, p. 829-833 (with Harry Richardson, et al.)

 

1990    APeak Spreading:  How Much?@ Transportation Research A, 24A, p. 165-175 (with Ajay Kumar and Harry Richardson).

 

 

Selected Projects, Research Reports and Papers in Proceedings, since 1990

 

2002      The Voluntary City:  Choice, Community and Civil Society.  The University of Michigan Press (with David T. Beito and Alexander Tabarrok).

 

2002    Economic-Engineering Integrated Models for Earthquakes:  Socioeconomic Impacts.  Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, UC Berkeley (with James E. Moore and Harry W. Richardson).

 

2001    “The Costs of Reconstruction:  Using an Integrated Model with Endogenous Price Effects” Proceedings of Japan-US Workshop on Disaster Risk Management for Urban Infrastructure Systems.  Kyoto, Japan.

 

2000      Improving Transportation in the San Fernando Valley.  RPPI Policy Study No. 249

            (with James Moore, Robert Poole, and Thomas Rubin).

 

1999    Integrating Transportation Network and Regional Economic Models to Estimate the Costs of a Large Earthquake, National Science Foundation (with Sungbin Cho, James Moore, Harry Richardson, Masanobu Shinozuka and Stephanie Chang.  http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/eqloss/index.html

 

1998    A Transit Plan for Hillsborough County:  A Reality Check.  (with Robert Poole) RPPI Policy Study No. 241.

 

1995    The Case Against Electric Vehicle Mandates in California.  Reason Foundation Policy Study No. 189 (with Harry Richardson).

 

1995    Binational Airport Case Study:  An Autopsy of the San Diego Binational Airport Proposal in collaboration with El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (with Allison Rowland).

 

1995    The Business Interruption Effects of the Northridge Earthquake.  National Science Foundation (with Harry Richardson).