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Bruce Stiftel

Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, is professor emeritus of city and regional planning at Gerogia Tech

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Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, is professor emeritus of city and regional planning at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research concerns planning theory, adaptive governance, and international development. He chairs the Planners for Climate Action working group on knowledge and research, co-chair's U.N. Habitat's University Network Initiative, is a member of ACSP's Global Planning Education Committee, and the American Planning Association's International Division working group on sustainability and climate.

A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stiftel is former president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), member of the Planning Accreditation Board, editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, founding chairperson of the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN), and member of UN-Habitat's expert group on the International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning.

World Planning Schools Congress title on photo of Balinese temple

World Planning Educators To Meet in Indonesia

The fifth World Planning Schools Congress this coming August, organized on the theme Planning a Global Village: Inclusion, Innovation, and Disruption, will step up cross-border movement of planning ideas and practices.

The Shanghai Statement signing at Tongji University on 14 July 2001.

The World's Planning Schools Joined Hands in Shanghai in 2001

The Shanghai Statement creating the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) was signed by ten planning school associations at the closing ceremony of the 1st World Planning Schools Congress at Tongji University, 20 years ago this week.

New Urban Agenda

Will Planners Lead the New Urban Agenda?

The United Nation’s 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.

Civil Rights

John Lewis: Leading by Example

When a great political leader dies, the usual stories told about him or her focus on accomplishments that moved the nation. I’ve been touched by the extent of memories about John Lewis that are coming from constituents, neighbors, and strangers.

National Park Service

Earth Day: 1970 and Now

The decade that began with the first Earth Day became a pivotal moment in U.S. environmental awareness and action. The core principles of the environmental decade are now questioned in the highest offices of our land.

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