Scott A. Bollens

Planning, Policy & Design

Professor / Warmington Chair in Peace and International Cooperation

Ph.D. University of North Carolina, AICP

Phone: 824-7696

Office: 226B SEI

Specializations: ethnicity and urban planning, urban growth policy, metropolitan governance, intergovernmental approaches to planning

I study ethnicity and urban policy, development strategies, and regional and intergovernmental approaches to planning. Here are questions that guide my research and teaching: (1) what is the role and influence of urban planning and policy amidst deep inter-group conflict, (2) can bottom-up urbanism contribute to top-down peacemaking and efforts to democratize a multinational society, (3) what is the relationship between how governance is structured in metropolitan areas and the equality/inequality of opportunity across individuals and localities?

Web links to research on divided cities:

Presentation on Governing Polarized Cities. Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Lecture Series. University of Pennsylvania. October 28, 2008. Podcast available at-- http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/ppec/Sawyer%20Seminar/Speakers/Scott_Bollens.html

Presentation on Divided Cities, Eugene, Oregon. January 22, 2008--http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/317

Designing Peace-- Interview about divided cities research. March 25, 2008-- http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/434

Selected Publications

Scott A. Bollens. 2008. "The City, Substate Nationalism, and European Governance." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 14, 2: 189-222.
Scott A. Bollens. 2008. "Urbanism, Political Uncertainty, and Democratization. Urban Studies 45, 5/6: 1255-1289.
Scott A. Bollens. 2007. "Urban Governance at the Nationalistic Divide: Coping with Group-Based Claims. Journal of Urban Affairs 29, 3: 229-253.
Scott A. Bollens. 2007. Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization. Oxford and New York: Routledge.
Scott A. Bollens. 2006. "Urban Planning and Peace Building. Progress in Planning. 66, 2: 67-139.
Goldstein, Harvey A., Scott Bollens, Chris Silver, and Edward Feser. 2006. "An Experiment in the Internationalization of Planning Education: The NEURUS Program." Journal of Planning Education and Research 25, 3: 349-363.
Scott A. Bollens. 2003. "In Through the Back Door: Social Equity and Regional Governance." Housing Policy Debate 13, 4, 631-657. Note: A featured forum article with companion commentary articles by Myron Orfield and Mark Alan Hughes.
Guzzetta, Jacqueline D. and Scott A. Bollens. 2003. "Urban Planners' Skills and Competencies: Are We Different from Other Professions? Does Context Matter? Do We Evolve?" Journal of Planning Education and Research 23, 1: 96-106.
Scott A. Bollens. 2002. "Urban Planning and Inter-Group Conflict: Confronting a Fractured Public Interest." Journal of the American Planning Association 68, 1.
Scott A. Bollens. 2002. "City and Soul: Sarajevo, Johannesburg, Jerusalem, Nicosia." City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 6, 1: 169-187.
Scott A. Bollens. 2000. On Narrow Ground: Urban Policy and Conflict in Jerusalem and Belfast. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Scott A. Bollens. 1999. Urban Peace-Building in Divided Societies: Belfast and Johannesburg. Boulder, CO and Oxford, UK: Westview Press.
Scott A. Bollens. 1998. "Ethnic Stability and Urban Reconstruction: Policy Dilemmas in Polarized Cities." Comparative Political Studies 31, 6: 683-713.
Scott A. Bollens. 1998. "Uncovering the Urban Dimension in Nationalistic Conflict: Jerusalem and Belfast Compared." Terrorism and Political Violence 10, 1: 1-38.
Scott A. Bollens. 1998. "Urban Planning Amidst Ethnic Conflict: Jerusalem and Johannesburg." Urban Studies 35, 4: 729-50.
Scott A. Bollens. 1998. "Urban Policy in Ethnically Polarized Societies." International Political Science Review 19, 2: 187-215.
Scott A. Bollens. 1997. "Concentrated Poverty and Metropolitan Equity Strategies." Stanford Law and Policy Review. 8, 2: 11-23.
Scott A. Bollens. 1997. "Fragments of Regionalism: The Limits of Southern California Governance." Journal of Urban Affairs 19, 1: 105-122.
Scott A. Bollens. 1993. "Restructuring Land Use Governance." Journal of Planning Literature. 7, 3: 211-226.
Scott A. Bollens. 1992. "State Growth Management: Intergovernmental Frameworks and Policy Objectives." Journal of the American Planning Association 58, 4: 454-466.
Scott A. Bollens. 1990. "Constituencies for Limitation and Regionalism: Approaches to Growth Management." Urban Affairs Quarterly 26, 1: 46-67.
Scott A. Bollens. 1988. "Municipal Decline and Inequality in American Suburban Rings: 1960?1980." Regional Studies 22, 4: 277-285.
Scott A. Bollens and David R. Godschalk. 1987. "Tracking Land Supply for Growth Management." Journal of the American Planning Association 53, 3: 315-327.
Scott A. Bollens. 1986. "A Political-Ecological Analysis of Income Inequality in the Metropolitan Area." Urban Affairs Quarterly 22, 2: 221-241.