Bruce Stiftel

About Bruce Stiftel

Bruce Stiftel is an international development theorist, director of the American Planning Association, and member of the steering bodies of UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign and Planners for Climate Action. He was president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and founding chair of the Global Planning Education Association Network.

Areas of Expertise

Environmental Planning and Resource Management, International Development Planning

Selected Publications

Bruce Stiftel. Planners and the New Urban Agenda: will we lead the agenda, or will the agenda lead us? Town Planning Review 92(4, 2021):421-41. \t https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.13, Nancey Green Leigh, Steven P. French, Subrajit Guhathakurta and Bruce Stiftel, eds. Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education. New York: Routledge, 2019. ISBN: 9781138958777 (hbk) ISBN: 9781315661063 (ebk); DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315661063 , John Scholz and Bruce Stiftel, eds. Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict. Routledge Publishers, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-933115-18-4 (cloth); 978-1-933115-19-1 (pbk.). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781936331475, Bruce Stiftel, Vanessa Watson and Henri Acselrad, eds. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, volume 2. London: Routledge Publishers, 2007. ISBN: 0415402859 (cloth);020396750X (e-book).\thttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780203967508

Recent Courses Taught

My teaching has included courses in environmental planning, planning theory, citizen participation, negotiation and dispute resolution, and international development.