Truman A. Hartshorn

Education:

Ph.D. (Geography), 1968, University of Iowa

B.A. (Social Science), 1963, Harpur College, SUNY at Binghamton

Specialties:

Comparative Urbanization
Urban Transportation
Suburban Downtowns
Economic Development
International Business

Academic Appointments:

• Professor, Department of Geography, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 1979-present.

• Research Associate, Center for Urban Research and Service, College of Public and Urban Affairs, Georgia State University, 1981-present.

• Faculty Associate, Gerontology Center, Georgia State University, 1987-1989.

• Professional Education Faculty Member, Georgia State University, 1992-present.

• Faculty Associate, Policy Research Center, Georgia State University, 1994-present.

• Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Georgia State University, 1969-1979.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of South Florida, Tampa, 1968-1969.

• Visiting Assisting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Summer, 1969.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Geology, Western Illinois University, Macomb, 1966-1968.

Administrative Appointments:

• Chair, Department of Geography, Georgia State University, 1979-1991.

• Coordinator, Georgia Geographic Alliance, 1990-present.

Editorial Boards and Journal Editorships:

Editorial Boards

• Urban Geography, 1980-1992

• Southeastern Geographer, 1978-1981

Guest Editor

• Urban Geography, Special Issue on the Geography of the Suburbs, vol. 2, No. 4 (1981).

• Southeastern Geographer, Special Issue on the Urban Geography of the South, vol. 12, No. 2 (1972), with Malcolm A. Murray.

Fellowships:

• Nominated as Faculty Fellow, Homer Hoyt Institute, North Palm Beach, Florida, 1994.

Grants and Contracts:

• Georgia Geographic Alliance, 1993-1996, 3-year, $300,000 Matching Grant Awarded by National Geographic Society Education Foundation, Washington, D.C., and the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation, Atlanta, through the Georgia Department of Education.

• Geography Education Grant, Fuqua Foundation, 1992, $1,500.

• Geography Education Grant, Coca-Cola Foundation, 1992-1993, $4,000.

• DeKalb County Board of Education, World Geography Mini-series, 1991-1993, $15,000.

• Georgia Geographic Alliance, National Geographic Society Foundation, 1990-1992, $60,000.

• "Geographic Education Program in Georgia," Seed Grant, National Geographic Society Foundation, 1988-1989. $4,000.

• "Retail Business Activity in Buckhead, Atlanta, GA," Buckhead Business Association, 1986-1988. Principal Investigator with Lee Quarterman. $25,000.

• "Surface Impoundment Assessment," Georgia Geologic Survey, 1985-1986. Principal Investigator. $53,500.

• "Suburban Business Centers: Employment Implications," U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, Washington, D.C., 1984-1986. Project # RED-808-G-84-5 (99-7-13616). Principal Investigator with Dr. Peter O. Muller, University of Miami. $65,000.

• "Economic Development Policy in Canadian Metropolitan Areas," Canadian Embassy Faculty Enrichment Program, Travel Grant, Canadian Studies Research Project, 1982.

Consulting:

• "Piedmont Park Master Plan," Socioeconomic Consultant, EDC-Pickering, Memphis, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia, 1993-1994.

• External Program Review, Department of Geography, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, February, 1994.

• World Geography Textbook, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., 1992-present.

• Delta Airlines/USA Today, Geography Sweepstakes Competition, 1992.

• Atlanta Public Television, WPBA Channel 30, The Making of Modern Atlanta, 3-part video series, 1990-1991; 1992-1993.

  Atlanta History Center, History of Atlanta Museum Exhibit, 1989-1993.

• American Express Geography Competition, Judging, 1991-1994.

• Fulton County State Court of Appeals, College Park Land Use Rezoning Case, 1990-1991.

• "Socio-economic Impact of Crystalline Rock Waste Depository Site Selection in Georgia," U.S. Department of Energy/Georgia Geologic Survey, 1984-1986.

• Geography Examination Questions, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J., 1986; 1992.

• "Atlanta History Exhibit," Resurgens Gallery, Atlanta Historical Society, November 1985.

• Market and Benefit Study, Science and Technology Museum of Atlanta, November 1984.

• "Transportation and Community Development," Annual Meeting, SERC/NAHRO, Knoxville, November 1984.

• Leadership Columbus, Columbus Chamber of Commerce, "Dynamics of An Urban Community" Workshop, 1981. "Urban Economic Development" Workshop, 1982.

• Socio-economic Consultant, Soil Systems, Inc., Marietta, Georgia, 1976-1981.

• Terrain Analysis, Survey of Off-Post Urban Features:

  Project 1 - Fort Campbell, Kentucky
  Project 2 - Fort Riley, Kansas
  Project 3 - Fort Bliss, Texas
  Funded by Engineering Topographic Laboratory, United States Department of Army.

Environmental Impact Statements: Principal Investigator for Socio-economic Impacts:

1. Atlanta Regional Mail Processing Facility, United States Postal Service, 1977.

2. Blair Village Apartment Complex, Atlanta, Georgia, 1978. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

3. Economic Impact of Proposed Tired Creek State Park, 1980.

4. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse Environmental Impact Study, Charleston, South Carolina, 1981.

Geography Consultant, Gambrell and Mobley, Attorneys-at-Law, Cobb County Board of Education Minority Teacher Case, 1980.

Evaluation of Housing Support Services Counseling Program, Department of Community and Human Development, City of Atlanta, 1980.

"Charting the 1980s: Development Strategies for Urban Georgia," Title I-A (HEA) Community Service Project Grant, Georgia State University, 1979-1980.

Socio-economic Consultant, Policy Design Corporation, Great Park/Covenant Property Reuse Study, 1977.

Socio-economic Consultant, MARTA Honor Fare Collection Study, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, 1975.

Cooperative Metropolitan Analysis Project, National Science Foundation/Association of American Geographers: Local Author for Monograph on Atlanta; 1972-1974.

Principal Investigator, UMTA, United States Department of Transportation Grant through Atlanta University, 1971-1972. UMTA-GA-11-0003-72-9. Project title, "Comparative Metropolitan Travel Patterns," Georgia State University Project No. 651.

Principal Investigator, NSF Institutional Grant No. 446, Georgia State University, 1969-1970. Project title, "Comparative Factorial Ecology of Southern Cities."

Special Training:

"Crisis of the Central City and Suburbanization: The Case of Munich and Vienna," Workshop in Munich and Vienna, August 1984.

Paratransit Workshop, Sponsored by School of Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Washington, D.C., 1978.

Faculty Forum, Cities Service Oil Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1974.

National Science Foundation Grant for Participation in Remote Sensing of the Environment, Institute of Geography, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, Summer, 1968.

Honors and Awards:

John Wiley Lecture, Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Waterloo, Ontario, May 20, 1994. "Edges, Centers, and Transitions: What Next for Metropolitan Structure?"

Selected and funded for participation in the National Geographic Society Education Foundation/U.S. Navy Project Marco Polo, 3-week, international science and geography program in the Mediterranean Sea, including sea-based scientific experiments in oceanography and land-based travel/seminars in Italy, Sicily, Malta, and Tunisia, Summer, 1993.

Journal of Geography Award, The Best Content Article, September 1972-May 1973, Honorable Mention for "Industrial/Office Parks: A New Look for the City," Annual Meeting, National Council for Geographic Education, Washington, D.C., November, 1973.

Publications: Books:

Interpreting the City: An Urban Geography, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2nd edition, 1992.

Economic Geography, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 3rd edition, 1988, with John Alexander. 4th edition forthcoming, 1995.

Interpreting the City: An Urban Geography, John Wiley and Sons, 1st edition, New York, 1980.

Metropolis in Georgia: Atlanta's Rise as a Major Transaction Center, Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976.

Publications: Monographs:

The Dynamics of Change in Atlanta: An Analysis of Growth over the Past Two Decades, Research Atlanta, April, 1993, with Keith Ihlanfeldt. 100 pp.

The Buckhead Advantage: Retailing, Small Business Development Center and Department of Geography, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 1988, with Lee Quarterman, et al. 142 pp.

Suburban Business Centers: Employment Implications. Final Report Prepared for U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, Project No. RED-808-G-84-5 (99-7-13616), 1986, with Peter O. Muller. 200 pp.

Publications: Articles, Essays, Chapters:

"The Changing Metropolitan Structure of Atlanta, Georgia: The Locations of Functions and Regional Structure in a Multinucleated Urban Area," submitted for publication in Urban Geography, August, 1994, with Tadashi Fujii.

Chapter 7 in Sources of Metropolitan Growth, John F. McDonald and Edwin M. Mills eds., "The Suburban Downtown and Urban Economic Development Today." Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1992.

Chapter 11 in George F. Thompson, ed., The Capital Region, Vol. 1, Touring North America, Rutgers University Press, 1991; "Beyond the Beltway: Suburban Downtowns in Northern Virginia," with John Fieser and Peter Muller.

"Suburban Downtowns and the Transformation of Metropolitan Atlanta's Business Landscape, Urban Geography, vol. 10, forthcoming, 1989, with Peter O. Muller.

"The Future Buckhead," Inside Buckhead, Vol. 2, Summer 1988, pp. 5-8.

"Can Gentrification and Neighborhood Buyouts Coexist in Atlanta?" Urban Resources, Vol. 3, (1986), pp. A1-A2.

"Quality of Life in Georgia: the 1980 Experience," Southeastern Geographer, 24 (1984), 78-98, with Sanford Bederman.

"Measuring the Impact of Inner City Markets on CBD Retail Sales," with John B. Corgel, Urban Geography, vol. 1 (1980). pp. 13-140.

"Getting Around Atlanta: New Approaches," Atlanta Economic Review, vol. 28, (1978), pp. 43-51.

"Migration Patterns of Atlanta's Inner City Displaced Residents," West Georgia Studies in the Social Sciences, West Georgia College, with Frank Keller and Sanford Bederman, vol. 16 (1977), pp. 49-58.

"The Manufacturing Map of the South," with Frank Drago, Atlanta Economic Review, September-October (1976), pp. 47-51.

"The Census of Housing," Borden D. Dent (ed.), Census Data: Geographic Significance and Classroom Utility, NCGE, Pacesetter Books (Chicago: National Council for Geographic Education, 1976).

"Planning Massive Accessibility for Central Atlanta: A Study of Misleading Projections," With Andrew M. Hamer, Proceedings, International Conference on High Speed Ground Transportation, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona, January, 1975, pp. 291-302. Reprint of article below.

"Planning Massive Accessibility for Central Atlanta: A Study of Misleading Projections, " with Andrew M. Hamer, High Speed Ground Transportation Journal, vol. 8, No. 3, Fall, 1974, pp. 291-302.

"Prologue," Manufacturing in the South, Special Issue, Southeastern Geographer, Neal Lineback, Guest Editor, vol. 14, No. 2 (November, 1974), pp. 63-66.

"Planned Industrial and Office Parks in Metropolitan Atlanta," in J. Heyl (ed.), Vade Mecum, Washington, D.C., Association of American Geographers, 1973, pp. 21-62.

"The Changing Level of Activity Location in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area," co-authored with Sid Davis, Atlanta Economic Review, vol. 23, No. 4, (1973), pp. 1-13.

"Industrial Parks/Office Parks: A New Look for the City," Journal of Geography, vol. 72 (1973), pp. 33-45.

"Socio-economic Development Axes in the Atlantic coastal Plain Region of the United States," International Geography, vol. 1 (1972), pp. 596-597.

"Georgia's Socio-economic Terrain," Atlanta Economic Review, vol. 21 (May, 1972), pp. 32-35.

"Inner City Residential Structure and Decline," Reprint of Above Article in Sidney Mgbejiofor (ed.) The Urban Black Community, Washington, D.C.: College and University Press, 1975.

"Residential Structure and Housing Quality, Comment in Reply," Annals, Association of American Geographers, vol. 62 (1972), pp. 139-142. See also a commentary of this article by B. Wellar,

"Residential Structure and Housing Quality," Vol. 62, 1972, and a commentary by E. Limoges, "Housing Quality and Data Quality," Annals, Association of American Geographers, vol. 62 (September, 1972), pp. 553-557.

"The Spatial Structure of Socio-Economic Development in the Southeast, 1950-1960," Geographical Review, vol. 61, no. 2 (April, 1971), pp. 265-283.

"Value Added by Manufacture in the United States, 1967," Atlanta Economic Review, vol. 20, no. 4 (April, 1970), pp. 16-17.

"The Southeast in Maps Series in Manufacturing in the Southeast," Atlanta Economic Review (November, 1969), pp. 16-17.

Publications: Book Reviews:

John Fraser Hart, ed., Our Changing Cities, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1991. Reviewed in Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 83 (1993), pp. 194-196.

Robert A. Beauregard, ed., Atop the Urban Hierarchy, Totowa, N.J.: Roman Littlefield, 1989. Reviewed in Annals, Association of American Geography, 1991.

Michael K. Heiman, The Quiet Evolution: Power, Planning and Profits in New York State, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988. Reviewed in Bulletin, Geography and Map Division, Special Libraries Association, 1991.

Kelly M. Barabar, Suburbia Re-examined, New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. Reviewed in Urban Geography, (forthcoming).

John Rees, ed., Technology, Regions, and Policy, Totowa, N.J.: Roman & Littlefield, 1986. Reviewed in Urban Geography, 1988.

James O. Wheeler and Stanley D. Brunn (eds.), The American Metropolitan System: Present and Future, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1980. Reviewed in Geographical Review, vol. 72 (1982), 482-484.

Howard L. Preston, Automobile Age Atlanta: The Making of a Southern Metropolis, 1900-1935, The University of Georgia Press, 1979, Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 71 (1981), 123-124.

L. J. King and R. G. Golledge, Cities, Space and Behavior: The Elements of Urban Geography, Prentice-Hall, 1978. Reviewed in The Professional Geographer, vol. 31 (1979), 447.

Blaine A. Brownell and David A. Goldfield (eds.), The City in Southern History: The Growth of Urban Civilization in the South, Kennikat Press, 1977. Reviewed in The Professional Geographer, vol. 30, May, 1978, pp. 220-221.

Dimitri Procos, Mixed Land Use, From Revival to Innovation, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc., 1976. Reviewed in The Professional Geographer, vol. 29, August, 1977, pp. 330-331.

John Friedmann and William Alonso, Regional Policy Readings in Theory and Application, M.I.T. Press, 1975. Reviewed in Journal of Developing Areas, vol. 10, 1976, pp. 234-235.

David Ley, The Black Inner City as Frontier Outpost, Washington, D.C.: The Association of American Geographers, 1974. Reviewed in Journal of Geography, vol. 74, September, 1974, pp. 364-365.

Anthony S. Cantanese, Scientific Methods of Urban Analysis, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1972. Reviewed in The Professional Geographer, vol. 26, August 1974, pp. 343-344, with Howard Schneider.

Peter Cowan (ed.), Developing Patterns of Urbanization, Sage Publications, 1971. Reviewed in The Journal of Regional Science, vol. 12, 1972, pp. 346-347.

Niles M. Hansen, Rural Poverty and Urban Crisis: A Strategy in Regional Development, Indiana University Press, 1971. Reviewed in Geographical Review, vol. LXI, October, 1971, pp. 613-614.

Allan Pred, Behavior and Locations: Foundation for a Geography and Dynamic Location Theory, Lund Studies in Geography, Series B, 1967 and 1969. Reviewed in The Professional Geographer, vol. 22, September, 1970, pp. 296-297.

Allan Pred, The Spatial Dynamics of the U.S. Urban Industrial Growth 1800-1914, M.I.T. Press, 1966. Reviewed in Journal of Developing Areas, vol. 1, April, 1967, pp. 411-412.

John Friedmann, Regional Development Policy: A Case Study of Venezuela, M.I.T. Press, 1966. Reviewed in Journal of Developing Areas, vol. 1, January, 1967, pp. 245-247.

Publications: Encyclopedia Articles:

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, article on Atlanta, 1983.

Academic American Encyclopedia, articles on Atlanta, Savannah, Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Miami, 1982.

Publications: Reports, Interviews, and Abstracts:

"Suburban Metropolis Atlanta Style," A Guide to Field Excursions, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 1993, pp. 34-42.

"Atlanta: Toward an International Metropolis," with James O. Wheeler, A Field Guide to Field Excursions, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 1993, pp. 2-8.

"Atlanta's Inner City Neighborhoods," with Timothy J. Crimmins, and Charles L. Jaret, A Field Guide to Field Excursions, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 1993, pp. 24-29.

"Geographers to Invade Downtown Peachtree Center, the Heart of Downtown Atlanta," Geography: A Newsletter for Educators, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1993, John Wiley & Sons, New York, pp. 1, ff.

"The Restructuring of Urban Retailing in the 1990s: A Challenge for Geographical Analysis," Geography: A Newsletter for Educators, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 1991, John Wiley & Sons, New York, pp. 7-8.

Atlanta Brief, Research Series Brief, editor. Metropolitan Studies Program, Department of Geography, Georgia State University, Vol. 1, No. 1, "Downtown Atlanta: Accessibility," for publication February 1991.

"The Coming of Age of Suburban Downtowns," Interview with Otis White, Georgia Trend, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1988, pp. 71-79.

"Land Use Succession in Airport Impact Zones: Mitigating Industrial and Residential Conflict," Georgia Journal of Science, 37 (April, 1979), 82, with Stevan Shakespeare.

"Getting Around Atlanta: New Approaches," Sage Urban Studies Abstracts, Vol. 6, May 1978, p. 206.

"Suburban Work Trips: Options for Paratransit," Georgia Journal of Science, Vol. 36, No. 2, April, 1978, p. 78.

"Forum Letter," Journal of Geography, Vol. 76, Sept./Oct. 1977, pp. 164-165.

"The Changing Role of the CBD: Whither Retailing," Georgia Journal of Science, Vol. 35, No. 2, 1977, p. 81.

"The Manufacturing Map of the South," with Frank Drago, Abstract, Bulletin of the Georgia Academy of Science, Vol. 34, April, 1976, p. 80.

"Mass Transit Alternative: A Comparison of BART and MARTA in San Francisco and Atlanta," with George B. Cox, Abstract, Bulletin of the Georgia Academy of Science, Vol. 33, April, 1975, pp. 75-76.

Urban Data Bank Policy Statement, Urban Life Center, Georgia State University, March, 1974.

Intra-Urban Travel Patterns of Three Middle Class Neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia: The Cases of Sherwood Forest, Collier Heights, and Sandy Springs. Project Report No. UMTA-GA-11-0003-72-9, Urban Transportation and Urban Affairs Project, Atlanta University, 1972.

"Atlanta and the Urban South," guest co-editor, Special Issue, Southeastern Geographer, vol. 12, November, 1972; with Malcolm Murray.

Atlanta Planned Industrial and Office Parks, Field Trip Manual, NCGE, Tour, T-2, November, 1971.

"Georgia Socio-economic Terrain," Abstract, Bulletin of the Georgia Academy of Science, vol. 29, April, 1971, pp. 132-133.

"Urban Blight: The Structure and Change of Substandard Housing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1940-1960," Abstract, Abstract of Papers, 64th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 59, No. 1, March 1969, p. 183.

"Remote Sensing Institute," The Professional Geographer, vol. XXI, No. 1, January, 1969.

"Urban Blight: The Structure and Change of Substandard Housing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1949-1960," Dissertation Abstracts, vol. XXIX, No. 6, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Professional Meetings - Papers Presented:

"Geography for Life: Bringing the National Geography Standards to Our Schools," Social Studies Leadership Conference, Georgia Council for Social Studies, Macon, Georgia, February 24, 1995.

"Edge Cities: Life on the New Frontier or Death of the CBD?" 1995 Preservation Conference, Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, Augusta, Georgia, February 17, 1995.

"Concentration and Scatteration: What Are We Learning About Jobs and Housing Patterns and Transportation Issues in a Metropolitan Context?" Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute, North Palm Beach, Florida, January 23, 1995.

"Edges, Centers, and Transitions: What Next for Metropolitan Structure?" John Wiley Lecture, Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Waterloo, Ontario, May 20, 1994.

"Edge Cities: Research Frontiers in Geography," Panel Discussion, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April, 1994.

"Ethnicity in Atlanta: The New Pluralism," Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 9, 1993.

"Atlanta and the Region - An Overview," opening session, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 6, 1993.

"The Inner City Redevelopment" and "Ethnicity in the City," lectures presented at Instructional Leadership Institute, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., July 6, 1992.

"The Growth and Development of the Perimeter Center Area in the Context of a Suburban Downtown," DeKalb County GSU Alumni Club Luncheon Talk, October 9, 1991.

"The 1990 Census and the City/Suburban Dichotomy in Atlanta," Department of Geography Colloquium Series, University of Georgia, Athens, May 16, 1991.

"The Suburban Metropolis: Stages of Change in Metropolitan Atlanta," Young Historians, Atlanta History Center, March 14, 1991. Presentation videotaped for broadcast on Atlanta Public Television and WABE radio.

"Saving the Environment" kickoff presentation, Lunch and Learn Series, Department of Continuing Education, Georgia State University, March 26, 1991.

"Metropolitan Atlanta's Suburban Downtowns," West DeKalb Rotary luncheon talk, Southern Bell Executive Center, July 24, 1990.

"Suburban Mobility: Private Sector and Local Government Roles in Building and Managing Transportation Capacity," Applied Geography Conference, Charlotte, N.C., October 27, 1990.

"The Suburban Downtown: The Future is Here," invited paper, Annual Meeting, Urban Land Institute, San Francisco, November 5, 1988.

"The New Metropolitan Reality: The Suburban Downtown and its Implications for Real Estate Investment and Facility Planning," invited paper, Industrial Development Research Council World Congress, Hilton Head, South Carolina, November 1, 1988.

"Transportation Mobility in the Polycentric Metropolis," Annual Meeting, West Lakes Division, Association of American Geographers, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 27, 1988.

"Public and Private Mechanisms for Shaping Suburban Activity Centers," Urban Land Institute Professional Development Seminar, Washington, D.C. March 8, 1988.

"The Suburban Employment Mismatch and Public Transportation," Suburbia Re-Examined Conference, Hofstra University, June 13, 1987.

"The Suburban Downtown and Changing Metropolitan Structure," Colloquium, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, November 1986.

"The Maturing Metropolitan Economy: Emerging Suburban Business Centers and Employment Implications," Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis, May 1986.

"Suburban Business Centers: A Spatial-Historical Analysis of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area," Annual Meeting, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, Chapel Hill, November 24, 1985.

"Prospects for Economic Geography," Workshop, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Detroit, April 1985.

"Economic Development on Atlanta's Southside," Leadership Atlanta, Economic Development Program, Atlanta, February 14, 1985.

"Recent Sectoral Changes and Shifts in Sunbelt Metropolitan Economies," Sunbelt Conference, University of Miami, Miami, November 4, 1984.

"Cracking the Economic Geography Textbook Juggernaut," Annual Meeting Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, Memphis, November 1982.

"Atlanta Inside Out: Downtown in the Suburbs," Suburban America: Paradise Lost? Symposium DeKalb Community College, North Campus, April 20, 1982.

"Downtown in the Suburbs: Emerging Trends on Atlanta's North Side," Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, February, 1981.

"Land Use Succession in Airport Impact Zones: Mitigating Industrial and Residential Conflict," with Stevan Shakespeare, Applied Geography Conference, SUNY Binghamton, September, 1979.

"Land Use Succession in Airport Impact Zones: Mitigating Industrial and Residential Conflict," Stevan Shakespeare, SSI, Georgia Academy of Science, Annual Meeting, Augusta College, April, 1979.

"CBD Retail Sales: Measuring the Strength of the Inner City and Captive Market," with Jack Corgel. Presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, April, 1978.

"Suburban Work Trips: Options for Paratransit." Presented at the Annual Meeting, Georgia Academy of Science, Milledgeville, April, 1978.

"Toward an Economic Improvement Program for an Inner City Community: Applied Urban Geography in Action," with Wayne Strickland and Steven Sax. Presented at the Annual Meeting, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, Knoxville, November, 1977.

"A Geography of the Suburban Work Trip: A Pilot Study." Presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Salt Lake City, April, 1977.

"The Changing Role of the CBD: Whither Retailing," with Jack Corgel and Borden Dent, Georgia Academy of Science, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April, 1977.

"The Manufacturing Map of the South," with Frank Drago. Presented at the Annual Meeting, Georgia Academy of Science, Earth Sciences Division, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, May, 1976.

"Transportation Investment Priorities: A Review of Ten Options." Presented at Transportation Geography Workshop, Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, New York City, April, 1976.

"Mass Transit Honor Fare Collection: Will It Work?," with Borden Dent. Presented at the Annual Meeting, West Lakes Division, Association of American Geographers, Cabondale, November, 1975.

"Mass Transit Alternatives: A Comparison of BART and MARTA in San Francisco and Atlanta," with George B. Cox. Presented at Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Savannah, April, 1975.

"Planning Accessibility for Central Atlanta: A Study of Misleading Projections." Presented at International Conference on High Speed Ground Transportation, Arizona State University, Tempe, January 7-9, 1975.

"Socio-economic Development Axes in the Atlantic Coastal Plain Region of the United States," with Richard A. Stevenson. Presented at the International Geographical Congress, Montreal, Canada, August, 1973.

"An Intra-Urban Regionalization of the Atlantic Coastal Plain." Presented at the Southeast Division Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, University of South Carolina, Columbia, November, 1970.

"Georgia's Socio-economic Terrain." Presented at the Annual Meeting, Georgia Academy of Science, Carrollton, May, 1971.

"Toward a Factorial Ecology of the Southeast: The Spatial Structure of Socio-Economic Development, 1950-1960." Presented at the Southeast Division Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Tallahassee, November, 1969.

"Manufacturing Characteristics of Non-Urban Counties in Selected Mid-western States," with John Weimer. Presented at the Southeast Division Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, East Carolina University, Greenville, November, 1968.

"Urban Blight: The Structure and Change of Substandard Housing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1940-1960." Presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., August, 1968.

Professional Meetings - Special Sessions and Session Chair:

Discussant of Paper, "Redistricting and Ideological Shifts in Congress, 1992-1993," by Gerald Webster, Annual Meeting, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, Virginia Beach, November, 1994.

Discussant of paper, "Functional Changes on a Traditional Strip," by William Dakan, Annual Meeting, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, Louisville, KY, November, 1992.

"The American City in the 1980s, II: Policy." Special Session Organizer (for Urban Geography Specialty Group), and Chair, Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Louisville, April, 1980.

"Geographic Dynamics of the Older Western City as Viewed by an Academic and Practitioner-CBD Revitalization." Panel Member, Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April, 1979.

"Economic Geography: Intra-Metropolitan Manufacturing Change," Session Chair, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April, 1979.

"Urban Geography," Session Chair, Middle Atlantic Division, Association of American Geographers, October, 1978.

Program Committee Chair, Earth Science Section IIIA-Geography, Georgia Academy of Science, Annual Meeting, 1977-1978.

"Transportation: Urban Transit I," Session Chair, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, April 1978.

Moderator, Opening Session, "Career Opportunities in Applied Geography," Opening Session, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Calloway Gardens, November, 1975.

"Transportation Geography," Session Chair, Annual Meeting, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, Mississippi, November, 1974.

"International Atlanta," Co-Chair, Opening Program, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, Georgia, April, 1972.

"Transportation Geography," Chair, Special Session, Annual Meeting, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, November, 1972.

"Urban Geography," Session Chair, Annual Meeting, Southeastern, Association of American Geographers, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, November, 1970.

Community Service:

"Why Has It Taken So Long? Atlanta's Emergence as the Leading Metropolis of the South," Lecture, North Atlanta Senior Services, Inc., Peachtree United Methodist Church, February 9, 1995.

"Atlanta: The International City," Lecture, North Atlanta Senior Services, Inc., Peachtree United Methodist Church, February 4, 1994.

"How Has Atlanta Changed in the Past Twenty Years? Growth and Change in the Atlanta Region," Presentation, Atlanta Economics Club, October, 1993.

International Education Advisory Council, Georgia Department of Education, 1993-1995.

State Geography Bee, Advisory Group, Georgia Department of Education, 1990-present.

Advisory Board, International Magnet Program, North Atlanta High School, City of Atlanta Schools, 1992-present.

Keynote Address, "Metropolitan Atlanta's Downtowns," North American Cartographic Information Society, Annual Meeting, October 28, 1987, Atlanta.

Central Area Study II, Task Force on Transportation and Infrastructure, Central Atlanta Progress, 1986-1988.

Citizens Transportation Advisory Group, Atlanta Regional Commission, 1986-present; Vice Chair, 1987-88.

Future Development in Perimeter Center, Dunwoody Homeowners Association Forum, June 30, 1984. "Rezoning Issues in Suburban Atlanta," DeKalb County Coalition, Panel Discussion, September 15, 1984.

Advisory Committee, Research Atlanta, 1983.

International Marketplace, Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, Evaluation Coordinator, Fall 1983.

Public Service - Conferences: Task Forces, Workshops, Professional Speaking, and Field Trips:

"The Outer Beltway," Sunday Press Conference, TV Interview, WAGA Channel 5, Atlanta, Georgia, November 27, 1994.

"Atlanta's Inner City Neighborhoods," field trip, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 9, 1993.

"Suburban Metropolis Atlanta Style," field trip, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 8, 1993.

"Beyond the Beltway: Suburban Downtowns in Washington, D.C.," Field Trip, International Geographical Union Conference, Washington D.C., August 9, 1992.

"Suburban Downtowns and Economic Development," Loudoun County Board of Commissioners Workshop, Washington, D.C. June 30, 1988.

"Suburban Downtowns and Metropolitan Development: The Cobb County Story," Cobb Developers Day, Atlanta, April 26, 1988.

"Suburban Atlanta," Field Trip, North American Cartographic Information Society, Atlanta, November, 1987.

"Atlanta Metro Area Today," Field Trip, International Geographical Union, Transport Group, Atlanta, September 26, 1982.

"Downtown in the Suburbs," Field Trip, Annual Meeting, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, November 22, 1981.

International Geographical Congress, Tokyo, Japan, August/September, 1980, Commission on Transportation Geography, Tokyo and Environs , Workshop and Field Trip.

"Charting the 1980s: Development Strategies for Urban Georgia," organizer and moderator, Title I conference, Urban Life Center, Georgia State University, February, 14, 1980.

Urban Geography Specialty Group, organizer and co-Chair, 1979-80, Board of Directors, 1980-1982.

"Targeting Federal Aid: Impact on Sunbelt Cities and Industrial, Residential, and Environmental Conflicts and the Atlanta Airport," University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Geography, October, 1979.

Suburban Task Force, Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., 1978-1982.

"Atlanta in the Suburbs." Field Trip Lecture Prepared for Economic Geography Institute Group, University of Amsterdam, September 1978.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NSF Group, "Atlanta's Industrial and Office Complex," February, 1977.

"Transportation Investment Priorities, Atlanta 2000," March 7, 1977.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Geography Field Trip, "Atlanta's Role and Function as a Distribution Center," November, 1977.

Organizer/Moderator, Urban Transportation Geography Workshop, Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, New York, April 15, 1976. Twenty-six participants from United States, Canada, and Great Britain.

Faculty Steering Committee, MARTA Study Group, Georgia State University and Georgia Institute of Technology, 1975.

Discussant, Public Finance-Urban Economics Workshop, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, May 8, 1974.

"Atlanta's Office and Industrial Parks," Field Trip/Presented and Led for Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973.

Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, December, 1973. Topics: "Socio-economic Development in the Coastal Plain" and "The Atlanta Growth Story: A Power Structure Perspective."

Lecturer, "Regional Development of the Atlantic Coastal Plain," Department of Geography, East Carolina University, April 2, 1972.

Lecturer, "A Profile of Atlanta's Internal Geography," Field trip and short course conducted for the NSF program, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1975, 1976, 1977.

"Industrial /Office Park Trip--Atlanta, Georgia," Field Trip prepared and led for NCGE, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 1971.

Speaker, "Census Tape Processing at Georgia State University," Census Users Conference, United States Bureau of Census, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 1970.

Administrative Experience: National, Regional, and State Committees and Activities:

Vice President and Program Chair, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, 1994-1996.

Executive Committee, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, 1994-1996.

Steering Committee, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, 1994-1996.

Local Arrangements Chair, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 6-10, 1993.

University System Strategic Planning Task Force, Working Committee on Data Needs, University System of Georgia, Board of Regents, 1992-1993.

Atlanta District Council, Steering Committee, Urban Land Institute, Washington, D.C., 1993-present. Chair, Education Committee, 1993-present.

Community Development Council, Education Chair, Urban Land Institute, Washington, D.C., 1991-1993.

Nystrom Awards Committee, Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., 1991.

Geography in Education Committee, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, 1985-present.

Regents Academic Committee on Geological Sciences and Geography, University System of Georgia, 1979-1990; Chair, 1981-1982.

Program Committee, Association of American Geographers, Annual meeting, Miami, 1991.

Program Committee, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Mobile, November 1988.

Nominations Committee, Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., 1979-1980.

Urban and Regional Planning Committee, Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., 1977-1979.

Transportation Geography Committee, Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., 1975-1978.

Steering Committee, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, 1976-1979.

Career Employment and Public Relations Committee, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, 1974-1979.

Earth Sciences Section Chair, Georgia Academy of Science, 1977-1978.

Earth Sciences Section Secretary, Georgia Academy of Science, 1976-1977.

University Center in Georgia, Geography Committee, 1979-1990; Chair, 1983-1984; 1987-1988.

Program Committee, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 1973.

Nominations Committee, Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers, 1971.

Administrative Experience - University and College Committees:

University Senate Representative, Department of Geography, 1992-1996.

Member, Planning and Development Committee, 1992-1995; Member, Faculty Affairs Committee, 1992-1994; Member, Admissions Committee, 1992.

Marketing Program Steering and Advisory Committees, Georgia State University, 1994.

Career Services 2000 Task Force, Georgia State University, 1993-1994.

Graduate Council, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, 1992-1994.

Chair, Senate Committee on Planning and Development, University Senate, Georgia State University, 1993-1994.

Subcommittee Chair, Urban Campus Committee, Senate Committee on Planning and Development, University Senate, Georgia State University, 1994-1995.

Co-Chair, Urban Initiatives Steering Committee, Georgia State University, 1993-1994.

Member Professional Education Council, and Member, Faculty Development Committee, College of Education and Arts and Sciences, 1992-present.

Member, Search Committee for Director of the School of Public Administration and Urban Studies, College of Public and Urban Affairs, Georgia State University, 1992-1993.

Faculty Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, 1991-1992.

Graduate Council, College of Arts & Sciences, 1991-93.

Chair, Marketing, Image, Demographics Working Committee, Task Force on Enrollment Management, Georgia State University, 1990-1991.

Co-Chair, Metropolitan Studies Committee, Georgia State 1991-1992.

Chair's Council, College of Arts and Sciences, 1979-1990.

Heritage Preservation Graduate Program Chair's Council, Chair, 1982-1990.

Committee on Faculty Appeals and Committee on Research and Continuing Education, College of Public and Urban Affairs, 1981-1982.

Graduate Director, Department of Geography, Georgia State University, 1974-1977.

Chair, Research and Public Service Committee, School of Urban Life, Georgia State University, 1974-1977.

Acting Director, Urban Data Bank Committee, School of Urban Life, Georgia State University, 1970-1973.

Executive Secretary, Urban Data Bank Committee, School of Urban Life, Georgia State University, 1969-1970.

Research and Public Service Committee, School of Urban Life, 1974-1978.

University Committee on Research, Self Study, Georgia State University, 1975-1976.

Urban Data Bank Committee, School of Urban Life, 1969-1973.

Administrative Experience - Major Departmental Committees:

Chair Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, 1985-1986.

Graduate Director, Department of Geography, 1972-1973; 1974-1977; 1992-1994.

Executive Committee, Department of Geography, 1974-1975; 1978-1979.

Library Chair, 1972-1973; 1978-1979.

Ph.D. Dissertation Committees:

Mark Thompson, "Jobs-Housing Spatial Mismatches in Suburban markets: An Economic Analysis," Department of Economics, Summer, 1994.

Nancy Stroud, Ph.D. Candidate, College of Education, Written & Oral Examination Committee, October 1993. Dissertation Committee, expected completion, Fall, 1995.

Donald J. Weideman, "Transaction Prices for Urban Influenced Raw Land in Edmonton, Alberta," Department of Real Estate and Urban Affairs, December 1985.

Patrick Dillon, "Locational Aspects of Commercial Banking at the Intra-Urban Scale: The Case of Atlanta, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, 1983.

William C. Weaver, "Segmentation of Major Office Space Tenants by Conjoint Measurement of Choice Criteria Used in Intraurban Relocation: A Dallas-Tarrant Counties, Texas Study,"

Department of Real Estate and Urban Affairs, 1982.

Sid Davis, "Household Consumption of Housing Service Flows in Atlanta, Georgia," Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, 1973.

Marilu McCarty, "Measures of Market Deviation in the Geographic Distribution of Manufacturing Output," Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, 1972.

Masters Theses Directed:

John Freeman, "Ecotourism and Sustainable Development in Costa Rica," Georgia State University, in progress, expected completion, Fall, 1995.

David Tooch, "Global Television: Reshaping Regions and Places," Georgia State University, in progress, expected completion, Fall, 1995.

Michael Weinberg, "NAFTA and the Geography of Trade between the U.S. and Mexico," in progress, expected completion, Summer, 1995.

Chris Craver, "Growth and Change on Atlanta's Southside," in progress, expected completion, Winter, 1995.

Layne Keith Porter, "From Bedroom Community to Suburban Business Center: A Geographical Analysis of the Buckhead Community in Atlanta, Georgia, 1920-1980," 1989.

Ann Gaylia Oliver, "The Container Freight Industry and the Port of Savannah, Georgia," non-thesis project, 1987.

Heather Good, "Feasibility Study of the Potential for Property Investment at Selected Locations on the Proposed Outer Beltway in Metropolitan Atlanta," non-thesis project, 1987.

Robert Thomas, "Stages of Neighborhood Development: An Atlanta Application," Department of Urban Studies, College of Urban Life, 1982.

Warren David Norman, "UDAG: New Kid on the Block," Department of Geography, Georgia State University, 1980.

James L. Fielding, "State Scale Patterns in United States Personal Energy Consumption," Department of Geography, Georgia State University, May, 1979.

Jack C. Corgel, "Inner City Markets and Central Business District Retail Sales," Department of Geography, Georgia State University, December, 1976.

Michael Jack, "Factorial Ecology of Atlanta," School of Urban Life, Georgia State University, 1976.

Donald Kunze, "Community Action and Perception of Residential Decline in Atlanta, Georgia," Department of Geography, Georgia State University, 1975.

Wayne Strickland, "The Perception of Residential Change in a Transitional Neighborhood in Southwest Atlanta, Georgia," Department of Geography, Georgia State University, 1975.

Frank V. Keller, "Spatial Patterns of Involuntary Moves: The Case of Atlanta's Model Cities Residents," Department of Geography, Georgia State University, 1974.

Ronald J. Harrison, "The Spatial Variation of Market Milk Production in Florida, 1950-1971," Department of Geography, Georgia State University, 1974.

Richard Smith, "An Analysis of the Spatial Flows of Recreation Behavior in Illinois," Department of Geography, Western Illinois University, 1968.

John Weimer, "Characteristics of Industries in Non-Urban Places in the Upper Mid-West, 1958-1963," Department of Geography, Western Illinois University, 1968.

M.A. Practicum Advisor:

Randy Warren, "A Truly International Community: The Buford Highway Corridor," Georgia State University, 1994.

John Strait, "The Atlanta of Motion: Transportation in the Olympic Summer of 1996," Georgia State University, 1993.

Robert Cursey, "Emergency Management Planning: A Plan Profile," Georgia State University, 1993.

Richard Kegley, "From Peachtree Center to the World Congress Center: A Corridor Study," Georgia State University, 1993.

Robert Beavers, "The city of Decatur Responds to Social Change: Characteristics of Socio-economic and Demographic Transition from the 1960s to the 1990s," Georgia State University, 1993.

Martha Boyd, "Investigative Report on the Status of Transportation Management Programs in Metropolitan Atlanta," Georgia State University, 1990.

Heather Good, "Feasibility Study: The Potential for Property Investment at Selected Locations Along the First Section of the Proposed Outer Beltway in metropolitan Atlanta," Georgia State University, 1987.

Terry Breitbarth, "Some Aspects of Foreign Manufacturing Involvement in the U.S.," Georgia State University, 1987.

Ann Oliver, "A Look at the Container Freight Industry and the Port of Savannah, Georgia," Georgia State University, 1987.

Professional Association Memberships:

Association of American Geographers

Southeast Division, Association of American Geographers

National Council for Geographic Education

National Council for Social Studies

Urban Land Institute

Textbook Authors Association