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History of Metropolitan Planning Organizations - Bibliography

Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Toward More Balanced Transportation: New Intergovernmental Proposals. Washington: USGPO, 1974. Report A-49.

Altshuler, Alan. The Urban Transportation System: Politics and Policy Innovation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979

Bianco, Martha J. Mumford Verses Moses: Paradigms of Growth in Portland, Oregon. Paper presented to the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Knoxville, Tennessee, Oct. 14, 1995.

Boardman, Fon W. America and the Progressive Era: 1900-1917. NY: Henry Z. Walck, 1970.

Bryner, Gary C. Blue Skies, Green Politics: The Clean Air Act of 1990 and its Implementation. Washington: CQ Press. 1995.

Cervero, Robert. Suburban Gridlock. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Center for Urban Policy Research, 1986

Cushman, John H. "New Transport Chief Pursues the Big Picture." New York Times. March 10, 1989, sec. II, P.5.

Doig, Jameson W.. "Creating A New Institution: Julius Henry Cohen and the Public Authority Movement." Portfolio Port Authority NY & NJ. Vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1988): 36-47.

Editors of Fortune Magazine (William H. Whyte et. al.) The Exploding Metropolis. Garden City, NY: Time Inc., 1958.

Fishman, Robert. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 1977.

Gage, Robert W. "Sector Alignments of Regional Councils: Implications for Intergovernmental Relations in the 1990s," American Review of Public Administration. Vol. 22, No.3. September, 1992, pp.205-227.

Garreau, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. NY: Doubleday, 1991.

Hall, Peter. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectural History of Urban Planning and Design in the 20th Century. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. 1990.

Harrigan, John J.. Political Change in the Metropolis. NY: Harper Collins, 1993.

Hughes, James W. and Seneca, Joseph J. "The Reinvented State," New York Times. November 11, 1996.

Jackson, Kenneth T. "The View from the Periphery," New York Times. Book review. Sept. 22, 1991.

Lubove, Roy. The Urban Community: Housing and Planning in the Progressive Era. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967.

Kling, Rob; Olin, Spencer and Poster, Mark (eds.). Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Postwar Orange county, California. Irvine, CA: University of California Press. 1995.

Krueckeberg, Donald A.(ed.). Introduction to Planning History in the U.S. New Brunswick: Rutgers University, Center for Urban Policy Research, 1983.

Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

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Leavitt, Helen. Superhighway -- Superhoax. NY: Doubleday, 1970.

Lesser, Joseph. "The Early Years of the Port Authority." Portfolio Port Authority NY & NJ. Vol. 2, no. 1 (Spring 1989): 29-41.

Lewis, Paul G. and Sprague, Mary. Federal Transportation Policy and the Role of Metropolitan Planning Organizations in California. Public Policy Institute of California, April 1997. http://www.ppic.org/publications/results.html

McDonnell, Lynda. "Big Lake: A no-win formula." Pioneer Press, Minneapolis-St.Paul. Part five of a six-part part series on sprawl. November 21, 1996. http://www.pioneerplanet.com/archive/sprawl/

McDowell, Bruce D. "The Metropolitan Planning Organization Role in the 1980s," Journal of Advanced Transportation. Institute for Transportation. Vol. 18, No.2, Summer 1984, pp. 125-133.

McGovern, Patrick S. Planning the Unsustainable Metropolis: California Edge Cities. University of Michigan. [http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~patmcgov/jper.html]

Morehouse, Thomas A.. "The 1962 Highway Act: A Study in Artful Interpretation." Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35, no. 3 (May 1969: 160-168.

Mumford, Lewis. The Culture of Cities. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1938. National Academy of Scineces. Urban Transportation Planning in the 1980s. Washington, 1982. Special Report 196.

Norton, Peter. "Fighting Traffic: U.S. Transportation Policy and Urban Congestion, 1955-1970," Essays in History. University of Virgina. Vol 38, 1996. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH38/Norton.html

Owen, Wilfred. The Metropolitan Transportation Problem. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1956.

Pendergrast, John. "MPOs Become VIPs," Civil Engineering. Vol.64, No. 4, April 1994, pp. 40-43.

Reagan, Ronald. State of the Union Addrees, 1982. http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/presidents/inaug/su82rwr.htm

Roberts, Steven V. "Problems of Energy Shortages Changing Old American Habits," New York Times. June 14, 1979, p.1

Salpukas, Agis. "Suburbia Can't Kick the Nozzle" New York Times. July 23, 1996, section D, p.1.

Scott, Mel. American City Planning. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971.

Smerk, George M.. Urban Mass Transportation: A Dozen Years of Federal Policy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1974.

Sternlieb, George and Schwartz, Alex. New Jersey Growth Corridors. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Center For Urban Policy Research, 1986.

U.S. Department of Transportation (Federal Highway Administration). Edge City and ISTEA: Examining the Transportation Implications of Suburban Development Patterns. Washington, 1992.

U.S. Department of Transportation (Transportation Taskforce of the Urban Consortium for Technology Initiatives). Institutional Framework for integrated Transportation Planning. Washington, January 1980.

U.S. Department of Transportation. Urban System Study: Report of the Secretary of Transportation. Washington: USGPO, January 1977. Senate Committee Print 95-1.

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U.S. Department of Transportation. How to Keep America Moving...Report on USDOT Outreach on the Reauthorization of ISTEA. Washington, 1997. [http://www.dot.gov/ost/govtaffairs/istea/]

U.S. Department of Transportation. National Transportation Report: Present Status -- Future Alternatives. Washington, July 1972.

U.S. Government Accounting Office. Urban Transportation: Metropolitan Planning Organizations' Efforts to Meet Federal Planning Requirements. Washington: GAO, 1996.

U.S. Senate. Public Works Committee Hearing. Washington, 1994. (Y4.P96/10:93-H34pt1)

U.S. Senate. Public Works Committee Hearing. Washington, 1972. S641-16 (Y4.P96/10:92-H37)

U.S. Senate. The Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, Report of the Committee on Environment and Public Works Together with Additional Views. Washington, June 1991. Senate Report 102-71.

Weiner, Edward. Urban Transportation Planning in the U.S. - A Historical Overview. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation, Revised Edition November 1992. [http://www.bts.gov/smart/smart.html].

Wicker, Tom. "In the Nation: Busting the Highway Trust," New York Times. December 5, 1972.

Wright, Gwendolyn. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America. NY: Pantheon, 1981.

Home Pages:

Brookings Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy - http://www.brook.edu/ES/URBANCEN/URBAN_hp.htm

Directory of Regional Councils/MPOs - http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/other_gov/rcg.html

EnviroLink Network - http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/edn/

National Association of Regional Councils - http://www.narc.org/

Portland Metro - http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/metro

Surface Transportation Policy Project - http://www.transact.org/

The Citistates Group - http://www.Citistates.com/

Twin Cities Metropolitan Council - http://www.metrocouncil.org/