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| REGIONAL PLANNING AND POLICY AREA
The State and Local Policy Program engages in
research and public education in the broad policy areas of
transportation and economic development. Recent activity
includes work on value pricing, rural vitality, knowledge clusters,
corridor design, rural safety, and transportation technology.
The Project on Regional and Industrial Economics conducts
research of planning and public policy interest on the intersection
between industries and occupations. Each project involves
a team of faculty members and students and disseminates
results through scholarly publications, the popular press, and
person-to-person outreach to parties directly concerned with
the issue.
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| What's New
Xinyu (Jason) Cao accepted the Institute’s offer to become an
assistant professor of transportation and land-use planning.
He will join the faculty in August. A native of China, Cao holds
two graduate degrees from the University of California at
Davis, as well as bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering
from Tsinghua University in Beijing. His research interests
include public transportation, land use–transportation
interactions, travel behavior analysis and demand modeling,
and mobility of transpor tation-disadvantaged people. He won
the 2005–2006 Wootan Award from the U.S. Council of
University Transportation Centers for the best transportation
policy/planning dissertation in the United States. More |
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 Edward G. Goetz
Regional Policy and Planning chair
"The Twin Cities metropolitan area—the largest economic center in the Upper
Midwest—is a tremendous laboratory
for our research and teaching. With two
central cities, the state capitol, and one
of the few regional planning bodies in
the country, this community offers rich
resources for future planners. We engage
students in this environment every
chance we get, with capstone workshops
that provide real-world, client-based
projects for teams of students to tackle,
and by bringing practitioners into the
classroom to share their experience.
"The advantage of having the urban
and regional planning program in a
school of public affairs is that students
get a strong foundation in public action,
political context, and the social and economic
implications of urban planning.
We also draw on faculty from across
the University—in such fields as civil
engineering, social work, design, architecture,
and applied economics—and
from the extensive practitioner community
in this region. These assets help
us to prepare planning professionals
who have the ability to span traditional
disciplines in their thinking, who understand
the role of ‘place’ in the context
of creating policy, and who recognize
the diverse systems that interact to create
urban and regional environments." |
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