Open AccessPlanning the emergent Basque megalopolis as a natural multi-metropolitan complex
Author(s) -
Lawrence D. Mann
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
ekistics and the new habitat
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2653-1313
DOI - 10.53910/26531313-e200471427-429197
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , library science , presentation (obstetrics) , megalopolis , latin americans , urban planning , regional planning , political science , work (physics) , position (finance) , public administration , regional science , management , sociology , history , geography , engineering , archaeology , law , civil engineering , medicine , mechanical engineering , economic geography , finance , computer science , economics , radiology
The author is Professor Emeritus of Planning, Regional Development and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA and Biarritz, France. He was formerly Professor and Chairman of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Harvard and before that held a similar position at Rutgers University. He has been a visiting professor at five different Latin American universities. He was for ten years the Review Editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Planners and was the initial compiling editor of Ekistics magazine. Professor Mann was national Chairman of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and was elected Fellow of the Institute in 2003. His research into Basque Planning has involved several months of field-work in the Basque region every year since 1999. The paper that follows is based on a presentation that he gave at the international symposion on 'The Natural City," Toronto, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.