Publications Since Full Retirement from UCLA in 1996
John Friedmann
Books
Mike Douglass and John Friedmann, eds., Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise
of Civil Society in a Global Age. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
John Friedmann, ed., Urban and Regional Governance in the Asia Pacific.
Vancouver: Institute of Asian Research, UBC, 1999.
John Friedmann, The Prospect of Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2002.
John Friedmann, China’s Urban Transition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2005. Translations into Japanese (2007) and Chinese (2008) published.
John Friedmann, Special issue of Urban Planning Overseas (in Chinese translation),
October 2005 (vol. 20: 5) with an introduction by Zhang Tingwei. Seven selected
essays.
John Friedmann, Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action.
Princeton University 1987, Farsi version with a new Preface, Teheran, 2008.
John Friedmann, Insurgencies: Essays in Planning Theory. Submitted to Routledge.
Articles in Refereed Journals
1996-2000
John Friedmann,"The Core Curriculum in Planning Revisited," Journal of Planning
Education and Research, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1996), pp. 101-116. Also in Spanish
(Ciudades (Mex.), Vol. 29, 1996).
John Friedmann, "Modular Cities: Beyond the Rural-Urban Divide," Environment
and Urbanization, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1996).
John Friedmann, "Rethinking Poverty: Empowerment and Citizen Rights,"
International Social Science Journal, 148, June 1996, 161-72.
John Friedmann, "On the Writing of the World City Hypothesis," Scottish
Geographical Magazine, 112: 2, 127-8, 1996.
John Friedmann, "Workshop on Intercity Networks in the Asia-Pacific Region: A
Report," Urban Policy and Research (Australia), vol. 15, no. 3, September 1997.
John Friedmann and Ute Lehrer, "Urban Policy Responses to Foreign In-Migration:
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The Case of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany." Journal of the American Planning
Association. Vol. 63, No. 1 (Winter 1997), pp. 61-78.
Immigrationspolitik in Los Angeles," Leviathan (Germany), special issue on cities and
immigration, 17/1997, 427-445.
John Friedmann, “World City Futures: the Role of Urban and Regional Policies in the
Asia-Pacific Region." Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Occasional Paper
#56. Chinese University of Hong Kong, February 1997. Spanish translation in
EURE (Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales), Santiago, Chile.
Also as a chapter in a book published by Chinese University Press, HK (see below).
John Friedmann, “Rethinking Urban Competition and Sustainability in East Asia,”
International Journal of Urban Sciences (Korea), vol. 2, no. 1, Summer 1998, pp. 111.
John Friedmann, “The Common Good: Citizenship and the Spaces of Democracy,”
Spanish translation in Revista Interamericana de Planificación (Jan-Je 98). Also in
Hemalata C. Dandekar, ed., City, Space and Globalization: An International
Perspective. Conference Proceedings. University of Michigan: College of
Architecture and Urban Planning, 1998.
John Friedmann, “Planning Theory Revisited,” European Planning Studies, vol. 6, 3
(June 1998), 245-54. Reprinted.
John Friedmann, “The City of Everyday Life: Knowledge/Power and the Problem of
Representation,” DISP 136-7 (ETH, Zurich), April 1999, 4-11.
John Friedmann, “Claiming Rights: Citizenship and the Spaces of Democracy,”
Plurimondi (Italy) No. 2, July-December 1999, 287-306.
John Friedmann, “El Reto de la Planificación en un Mundo sin Fronteras,” Ciudades
(Mexico), 42, 1999, 3-6.
John Friedmann, “The Good City: In Defense of Utopian Thinking,” International
Journal for Urban and Regional Research, 24, 2 (2000), 460-472.
John Friedmann, “Preface: Urban Impacts and Responses to the Asian Economic
Crisis in the Asia Pacific Region,” Asian Geographer, 19, (2000), 1 and 2, 1-6.
John Friedmann, ed., “Urban Impacts and Responses of the Asian Economic Crisis.”
Special issue of The Asian Geographer, 2000.
2001-2005
John Friedmann, “Regional Development and Planning: The Story of a
Collaboration,” International Journal of Regional Science, 24: 3, July 2001, 386-395.
John Friedmann, “The Governance of City Regions in East and Southeast Asia,”
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DISP (Zurich) 145, 2/2001, 4-9.
John Friedmann, “Why Do Planning Theory?” (Comment), Planning Theory, 2:1
(March 2003),
7-10.
John Friedmann, “Hong Kong, Vancouver and Beyond: Strategic Spatial Planning
and the Longer Range,” and “Response to Comments,” Planning Theory and
Practice, 5:1 (2004), 49-67 (with commentaries)
“Planning Cultures in Transition,” in Bishwapriya Sanyal, ed., Comparative Planning
Cultures. New York and London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 29-44.
“Globalization and the Emerging Culture of Planning,” Progress in Planning, 64:3,
2005, pp. 183-234. (AESOP Prize-winning essay, 2006)
2006-2009
John Friedmann, “Four Theses in the Study of China’s Urbanization,” International
Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30:2, 2006, 440-451. (Translated into
Chinese for the Journal of City and Regional Planning, Beijing).
John Friedmann, “Reflections on Place and Place-Making in the Cities of China,”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 31:2 (2007), 357-79.
John Friedmann, “The Wealth of Cities: Towards an Assets-based Development of
Newly Urbanizing Regions,” First UN-HABITAT Award Lecture, 2006, posted on UNHabitat web site. Revised version in Development and Change (Forum), December
2007.
“Restructuring Urban Governance: Community Construction in Contemporary
China,” City, 12:2. 183-195. (With Leslie Shieh)
“The Wealth of Cities: Towards an Assets-based Development of Newly Urbanizing
Regions,” First UN-HABITAT Award Lecture, 2006, posted on UN-Habitat web site.
Revised version in Development and Change, 2007.
“Towards Sustainable Neighborhoods in China: A Case Study of Ningbo, Zhejiang
Province.” Paper presented at the All-China Planning Conference, Xiamen,
November 2008. Published in a Chinese translation in International Planning Journal
(Beijing) (2009). With Chen Fang)
John Friedmann, “The Uses of Planning Theory: A Bibliographic Essay,” Journal of
Planning Education and Research, 28:2, 247-57 (Winter 2008).
John Friedmann, “Encounters with Development Planning,” International
Development Planning Review, 31: 2, 2009, 117-26.
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“Encounters with Development Planning,” Keynote address on the occasion of the
30th anniversary of the International Development Planning Review. Published:
IDPR, 31:2 (2009) 117-126,
“Neighborhood by Neighborhood: Reclaiming Our Cities,” Talk prepared for First
International Forum on Housing, Mexico City, September 2009.
Book Chapters in Edited Collections
“The New Political Economy of Planning: The Rise of Civil Society,” in Mike
Douglass and John Friedmann, eds., Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise of
Civil Society in a Global Age. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 19-38.
"Urban Policy Responses to Foreign In-Migration: The Case of Frankfurt-am-Main,
Germany," in Mike Douglass and John Friedmann, eds., Cities for Citizens: Planning
and the Rise of Civil Society in a Global Age, Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons,
1998. (With Ute Lehrer)
“World City Futures: the Role of Urban and Regional Policies in the Asia-Pacific
Region," in Yue-man Yeung, Urban Development in Asia. Hong Kong Institute of
Asia-Pacific Studies. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.
“Intercity Networks in a Globalizing Era,” in Allen J. Scott, ed., Global City-Regions.
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
“Placemaking as Project? Habitus and Migration in Transnational Cities,” in Jean
Hillier and Emma Rooksby, eds., Habitus: A Sense of Place. London: Ashgate, 2002,
pp. 299-316. Also included in the 2nd edition, 2006.
“Towards a Sustainable Development in the US/Mexican Border Region,” in Nora
Bringas and Jane Clough-Riquelme, eds., Regional Reflections on Equity and
Sustainability: The U.S.- Mexico Border. Center of U.S.-Mexican Studies, University
of California at San Diego, 2005.
“Civil Society Revisited: Travels in Latin America and China,” in Marco Keiner et al.,
eds., Managing Urban Futures: Sustainability and Urban Growth in Developing
Countries. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 127-142.
“Planning Cultures in Transition,” in Bishwapriya Sanyal, ed., Comparative Planning
Cultures. New York and London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 29-44.
“A Spatial Framework for Urban Policy: New Directions, New Challenges,” in What
Policies for Globalising Cities? Rethinking the Urban Policy Agenda, OECD
Conference, Madrid (Spain). Proceedings (pdf) December 2007.
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“Pathways Towards a New World Order: China’s Political Challenge to the European
Union,” in Klaus Kunzmann et al., China and Europe. London: Routledge, 2008.
“Crossing Borders: Do Planning Ideas Travel?” in Patsy Healey and Robert Unger,
eds., Planning Ideas and Practices. London: Routledge, 2010.
“Varieties of Planning Experience: Towards a Globalized Planning Culture?” in
Randall Crane and Rachel Webster, eds., Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning.
Oxford University Press, 2010.
“Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China’s Cities,” in Sophie
Watson, ed., New Companion to the City. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.
Reviews and Review Essays
Review of Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson, eds., Postmodern Cities and
Spaces. In Urban Policy and Research (Australia), 15:3 (1997), 237-8.
Review of Gravesteijn, S.G.E. et al., Timing Global Cities. In International Journal of
Urban and Regional Research, 23:1 (1999), 194-5.
Review of John Brotchie et al., East West Perspectives on 21st Century Urban
Development. In Urban Policy and Research, 17:1 (1999) (Australia).
Review of Seymour J. Mandelbaum, Open Moral Communities. In Planning Theory
and Practice, 1:2 (December 2000), 290-292.
Review of David Held and Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton,
Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and Culture. In International Journal of
Urban and Regional Research, 25:2, June 2001, 463-466.
Review of Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen, eds., Of States and Cities: The
Partitioning of Urban Space. In DISP, 151, 4/2002, 101.
Review of Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, Cities: Reimagining the Urban. In DISP 151,
4/2002, 96-7.
“China’s Urbanization: A Review Essay,” International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research, 27:3 (2003), 745-758.
Review of William Lim, Asian Ethical Urbanism, In Pacific Affairs, 78:4, Winter 20052006, 679-80.
Review of Stephan Feuchtwang, ed., Making Place: State Projects, Globalization,
and Local Responses in China. British Journal of Sociology, 57:3, 2006.
Review of S. Lentz, ed., German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy:
Restructuring Eastern Germany. In Journal of the American Planning Association,
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2007.
Review of Fulong Wu et al., Urban Development in Post-Reform China: State,
Market, and Space. In Housing Studies (UK), 2007.
Review of Doreen Massey, World City. In Urban Studies. 2008.
Review essay: “Thirdspace Revisited.” Edward Soja, Thirdspace: Journeys to Los
Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. Cambridge, MA.: Blackwell 1996.
To be published in an eventual Festschrift for Soja.
Review of Mike Douglass et al., Globalization, the City, and Civil Society in Pacific
Asia: The Social Production of Civil Spaces. London, NY: Routledge. 2008. In
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32:4, pp. 1028-1030.
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