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Robert Warren, PhD

PROFESSOR OF URBAN AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC POLICY AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT FELLOW, INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

rwarren@udel.edu e-mail
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298 Graham Hall | University of Delaware | Newark, Delaware 19716-7380

expertise | education | experience | courses taught | selected publications

 

EXPERTISE

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Dr. Warren's teaching, research, and publications have focused on urban and metropolitan governance, planning theory, urban coastal management, and effects of telecommunications and information technology on urban socio-economic, political, and spatial dynamics and organization. He has led in the design of policy forums and research in the IPA on telecommuting, information policy, e-commerce, the Digital Divide, intelligent transportation systems and telemedicine. Current research projects include multi-sectoral transit networks, video surveillance in urban public space, and the relationship of cyber and terrestrial space. Dr. Warren has made invited presentations at conferences in France, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Sweden, the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
 

 

EDUCATION

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PhD, University of California, Los Angeles 1964, Political Science

MA, University of California, Los Angeles 1957, Political Science

BA, University of California, Los Angeles 1954, Political Science
 

 

EXPERIENCE

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1975 - present

 

Professor of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy and Senior Management Fellow, Institute of Public Administration, University of Delaware
 

1971 - 1975

 

Professor of Urban Affairs and Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California
 

1960 - 1971

 

Assistant and Association Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Washington

 

COURSES TAUGHT

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UAPP613--Planning Theory and Urban Policy

UAPP619--Contemporary Issues in Urban Affairs and Public Policy

UAPP822--ProSeminar in Governance, Planning, and Management
 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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"Situating the City and September 11: Military Urban Doctrine, 'Pop-Up' Armies, and Spatial Chess," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (forthcoming).

"The Intrametropolitan Distriution of Computer Services Employment, 1982 and 1993," with Samuel Nunn, Urban Geography, 21:5, 2000, 406-427.

"The Future of the Future in Planning: Appropriating Cyberpunk Vision of the City," with Stacy Warren, Samuel Nunn, and Colin Warren, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 18, 1998, 49-60.

"Software Jobs Go Begging, Threatening Technological Boom," with Samuel Nunn and Joseph Rubleske, Professional Geographer, 50:3, August 1998, 358-372.

"Metropolitan Computer Services Infrastructure and Economic Development Capacity in the Information Society,"(with Samuel Nunn, Economic Development Quarterly, 11:4, November 1997, 329-346.

"Urban Governance, Local Autonomy, and National Development," Proceedings of the International Symposium on National Development and Local Autonomy Development Strategy, Seoul: Korea Research Institute for Local Administration, 1993.

"Building Urban Governance: An Agenda for the 1990s," with Mark S. Rosentraub and Lewis F. Weschler, Journal of Urban Affairs, 14, Fall 1992, 399-422.

"National Urban Policy and the Local State," Urban Affairs Quarterly, 25, June 1990, 541-561.

"Multiple Forms of Volunteer Activity in the Public Sector: Functional, Structural, and Policy Dimensions," with Jeffrey L. Brudney, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 19, Spring 1990, 47-58.

"Telematics and Urban Life: The Questions of Gender, Class, and Urban Form – Rejoinder to John P. Frendreis," Journal of Urban Affairs, 11, 1989, 339-346.

"A Community Services Budget: Public Private and Third Sector Roles in Urban Services," with Mark S. Rosentraub and Lewis F. Weschler, Urban Affairs Quarterly, 23 March 1988, 414-431.

"Information, Space, and the Control of Local Decisions,"(with Mark S. Rosentraub, Journal of Urban Affairs, 8 Fall 1986, 40-50.

"Public Policy and Community-Oriented Uses of Cable T.V.," with Mitchell L. Moss, Urban Affairs Quarterly, 20, December 1984, 233-254.

"The New Privatism, Federalism, and the Future of Urban Governance," with Timothy K. Barnekov and Daniel Rich, Journal of Urban Affairs, 3, Fall 1981, 1-14.

"An Ecology of Governments: Coastal Zone Management in a Federal System," Francis W. Hoole, Robert L. Friedheim, and Timothy M. Hennessey, eds., Making Ocean Policy, Boulder: Westview Press, 1981, pp. 113-129.

"The Multiple Boundaries of Cities: A Framework for the Policy Analysis of Space," with Lewis F. Weschler, Phillip M. Gregg, ed., Problems of Theory in Policy Analysis, Lexington, Mass., D.C. Heath, 1976, pp. 103-113.

Coastal Resource Use, with Robert L. Bish, Lewis F. Weschler, James A. Crutchfield, and Peter Harrison, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975, pp. 206.

"Scale and Monopoly Problems in Urban Governmental Services," with Robert L. Bish, Urban Affairs Quarterly, 8 (September 1972), 97-122.

"Federal-Local Development Planning: Scale Effects in Representation and Decision Making," Public Administration Review, XXX, November/December 1970, 584-595.

Government in Metropolitan Regions: A Reconsideration of Fragmented Organization, Davis, Calif.: Institute of Governmental Affairs, University of California, Davis, 1966; 2nd ed. 1970, pp. 327.

"A Municipal-Services Market of Metropolitan Organization," Journal of the American Institute of Planners, XXX (August 1964), 193-204.

"The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry," with Vincent Ostrom and Charles M. Tiebout, American Political Science Review, LV (September 1961), 831-842.
 

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