Richard Thomson LeGates Work Phone: (415) 338-6176
74 Beechwood Drive Home Phone (510) 655-1007
Oakland, California 946l8 Home FAX (510) 655-9816
e-mail dlegates@SFSU.com

Education

J.D. Boalt Hall Law School, U.C. Berkeley (l968) } Joint Degree
M.C.P. Department of City and Regional Planning, } Program
University of California Berkeley (l969) }
B.A. cum laude Harvard College (l965) }

Academic Appointments

San Francisco State University

Tenured full professor of Urban Studies. Full time faculty l973 - present.

Administrative Positions

Director: Undergraduate Urban Studies Program (1997 - 1998, l990 - 1994; l984 - l986; l974 - 78).
Director Graduate MPA Program (l984 - l986).
Director SFSU Urban Center (l980 - 81).
Board member, SFSU Urban Institute (1991 - present)
Board member, SFSU Public Research Institute (1984 - present).
URBS Hiring, Retention, Tenure, & Promotions Committee (1977 - 1997; chair 1991 - 1997; 1998)
College of BSS Faculty Merit Pay Review (PISSI) Committee (1997 - 1998)
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Methods and Technology Committee (1995 - present).
Many prior university, College, and Program committee assignments.

Courses currently taught

"Dynamics of the American City", "Housing and Community Development Policy", "Politics, Law, and the Urban Environment", "Research Methods", "Public Sector Information Management", "Land Use Planning."

Other SFSU courses taught: "Urban Growth Management", "Urban Studies Senior Seminar", "Seminar: New Directions in City Planning", "The City", "Law and Social Change in the City", "Introduction to Urban Policy and Administration", "Masters in Public Administration Final Project Seminar", "Fieldwork in Urban Analysis".

Other Universities

U.C. Berkeley Department of City and Regional Planning, "Introduction to City Planning" (Spring, l992; Summer l990, l989);"Urban Planning and the Legal Process" (Fall l979, Winter, l976, Spring, l972).

Stanford University Urban Studies Program "Introduction to Urban Studies" (Fall, l979).

University of Chile, Departamento de Estudios y Planificacion Urbano-Regionales, Visiting Professor, 1972.

Recent Consulting and applied Research

Co-principal investigator (with SFSU Economic Department chair Michael Potepan), California State University faculty fellow Program $ 6,500 grant to provide policy advice to California Senate Select committee on Community and Economic Development (1997).

Principal Investigator $100,000 HUD-funded Stanford/SFSU Community Outreach Partnership Center Institutionalization Grant (1996 - 1997).

Principal Investigator for SFSU portion of $ 580,000 HUD-funded Berkeley/Stanford/SFSU Community Outreach Partnership Center (1994 - 1996).

Principal Investigator, San Francisco Mayor's Office of Community Development Community Development Block Grant Assessment (1993 - 94).

Principal Investigator City of Brisbane. General plan survey (l991-92).

Principal Investigator Poverty & Race Research Action Council. California Eviction study (l992).

Consultant on regional housing issues Bay Vision 2020 Commission. (l990 - 91).

Director, San Francisco State University Public Research Institute Growth Management and Housing Affordability Study (l989 - 91).

Other research and consulting for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Legal Services Corporation, Ford Foundation, Brookings Institution, California State Department of Housing and Community Development, City of Hayward California.

Research Fellowships

SFSU Center for the Enhancement of Teaching (CET) summer stipend to develop dynamic web-based database course projects (Summer, 1998).

California State University (CSU), California Legislature Faculty Fellow program studying economic development in California. (1997)

Field Institute Fellow conducting public opinion research on Californians' opinions concerning urban growth and development (l989)

Legal Services Research Institute fellow studying gentrification and displacement (l979-80).

Selected Publications

The Development of City Planning (9 volume edited series on the History of City Planning (Forthcoming, London: Thoemmes/Routledge, 1998). Co-edited with Frederic Stout.

The City Reader (London: Routledge, 1996). Co-edited with Frederic Stout.

"Housing Planning and Policy" book chapter as consultant to the American Planning Association to be published in International City Management Association (ICMA) The Practice of Local Government Planning (forthcoming, 1999). Co-authored with John Landis

City Lights: An Introduction to Urban Studies (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, First edition, l981). Co-authored with Barbara Phillips.

Displacement: How to Fight It, (Berkeley: National Housing Law Project, 1979). Co-authored with Chester Hartman and Dennis Keating.

National Housing Law Project Guide to Federal Housing and Community Development Programs (Berkeley: U.C. Press, 1970). Co-authored with staff of National Housing Law Project.

California Local Agency Formation Commissions (Berkeley: University of California Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, 1970)

Selected Journal Articles

"Institutionalizing Univerity Community Partnerships" Journal of Planning Education and Research (Summer, 1998). Co-authored with Gib Robinson.

"The Emergence of Flexible Growth Management Systems in the San Francisco Bay Area" published in Loyola of L.A. Law Review in l991, selected as one of 15 best U.S. land use/environmental law articles and republished in Land Use and Environmental Law Review (l992).

"The Local Government Backlash Against Federal Housing Privatization in the United States" Built Environment (l990).

"Local Housing Subsidy Programs in the United States: Broadening Revenue Bases and Targeting Beneficiaries" Journal of Urban Law and Policy (l989).

"Gentrification-Caused Displacement" Urban Lawyer (Winter, l982).

"Austerity, Shelter, and Social Conflict in the United States" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Spring, l981).

"Municipal Housing Code Enforcement and Low Income Tenants" American Planning Association Journal, 1974. Co-authored with Chester Hartman.

"The Perils of Special Revenue Sharing for Community Development" American Planning Association Journal, 1973. Co-authored with Mary Morgan.

"Can Federal Welfare Bureaucracies Manage Their Programs: The Case of HUD and Urban Renewal", Urban Lawyer (1973).

References