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CnY OF AMES,IOWA
' November 14, 2002
Honorable Mayor Ted Tedesco
City of Ames
515 Clark Avenue
Ames, Iowa 50010
Dear Ted:
I wish to express my interest in the to-be vacated council seat in my Ward. I have been a
resident of this Ward since I moved to Ames in January 1979. Please find enclosed a
copy of my resume for your reference.
I have been active as a volunteer in Ames for a number of years. I have chaired the Ames
Historic Preservation Commission at the time it was founded for four years. I also served
in the Ames Planning and Zoning Commission twice, once for a short period of about
two years and then again after I returned from an overseas assignment for a full five-
years term during which I chaired it for a year. I have served also on other groups and
committees, including the one sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce on Ames Vision
2020. Currently I am serving on the Boards of Youth and Shelter Services and United
Way of Story County.
I have always found such assignments, despite the hard work they require, to be fulfilling
and rewarding. I feel I can contribute to Ames as a member of the Council, and I look
forward to your collective decision.
Respectfully, -
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Riad G. Mahayni (1
1617 Amherst Dr.
Ames, Iowa 50014
RESUME
RIAD G. MAHAYNI, PhD, FAICP
Professor
Department of Community and Regional Planning
592 College of Design
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-3095 USA
Phone: (515) 294-8524
FAX: (515) 294-4015
E-mail: rmahayni@iastate.edu
HOME ADDRESS
1617 Amherst Drive
Ames, Iowa 50014-3925 USA
(515) 292-3908
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
BSCE 1966 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. Civil Engineering.
MUP 1969 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Urban Planning.
PhD 1972 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. (PhD dissertation title: Passive and
Dynamic Aspects of Transportation Planning in Developing Countries.)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
July 2002 to present: Professor, Department of Community and Regional Planning, Iowa State
University, Ames, Iowa. Member of the Graduate College. Offer graduate and undergraduate
courses including: Introduction to Community and Regional Planning, Planning Theory, Regional
Planning, Planning in Developing Countries, Planning Methods, and Planning Workshops.
Supervise studies of graduate students with their theses and projects. Participate in funded research
projects.
July 1995 to June 2002: Professor and Chair(Interim from July 1995 to June 1996), Department of
Community and Regional Planning, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Member of the Graduate
College. The department has about 11 FTE positions and about 130 undergraduate and 30 graduate
students. Both the undergraduate and the master's degrees are accredited by the Planning
Accreditation Board. Responsibilities include administering the teaching and the active research and
outreach programs of the department. In addition, the department offers, with the departments of
Civil and Construction Engineering and Transportation and Logistics, a master's degree in
transportation as well as double degrees with Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Public
Administration, and Business Administration. It also participates in the housing minor at the
undergraduate level. Actively participates in the instructional and research programs in the
department. The department's current operating budget amounts to about $805,000, and the
external funding for research, excluding matching, is more than $3 million. Selected
accomplishments include:
• Initiated a process for envisioning a new direction for the department that involved faculty,
students, alumni, and planning professionals. This new direction offered more focus to the
specializations the department offers at graduate and undergraduate levels.
• Reaccredidation of the department's undergraduate and graduate programs.
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• Teach one course per semester typically the graduate introductory and planning theory
courses.
• The undergraduate program was ranked in the 1998 Gourman Report as the sixth program
in the country
• Received, as a principal investigator, a major grant from HUD to establish a Community
Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) in the Enterprise Community (EC) of Des Moines,
Iowa. The department partnered with the city of Des Moines and the EC Steering
Committee in implementing this three-year project. The HUD grant is for $399,615 and
totals about $1.4 million with matching from the university and the City of Des Moines.
January 1986 to June 1995: Professor, Department of Community and Regional Planning, Iowa State
University, Ames, Iowa. Full member of the Graduate Faculty. Designed and offered a number of
graduate and undergraduate courses, such as Introduction to Community and Regional Planning,
Planning Theory, Seminar in Regional Planning and Development, Planning Methods and
Techniques, Community Economic Development, Planning in Developing Countries, and Planning
Workshops. Supervised graduate students with their thesis work, and advised undergraduate
students. Participated as a principal investigator or as a member of research teams in a number of
funded projects. Selected accomplishments include:
• Revised the graduate planning methods sequence into five-week modules focusing on
different techniques. Co-authored an article about the modules published recently in the
Journal of Planning Education and Research.
• Served as a co-principal investigator for a number of projects, including the Nuclear Waste
Site Remediation Land Use Policy Study sponsored by the US Department of Energy;
Community Participation in Land Use Planning sponsored by Martin Marietta and focused
on Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Project MARTIN sponsored by the Iowa Department of Natural
Resources and focused on establishing an interactive data information system for recycling in
Iowa.
January 1994 to July 1994: Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, Damascus University, Damascus,
Syria, and Amman University, Amman, Jordan. Conducted research on the urban forms of the older
sections of Damascus, and how new development pressures are transforming these older
neighborhoods and in the process making them lose their charming character. In addition, lectured
on the evolution of planning theory in the US at both the Damascus and Amman Universities;
participated, as a volunteer, on a committee supervising the development of a comprehensive plan
for the City of Damascus; and published an article on the research in a book.
July 1983 to December 1985: Technical Coordinator, Makkah Region Planning and Development
Project, Makkah(Mecca), Saudi Arabia. Dar Al Handasah Consultants. Coordinated all technical
studies for a major regional planning project costing more than $10 million for an area covering
about 10,000 square kilometers, and focusing on the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Seven
technical reports, with their atlases, ranging from macro-to micro-development issues, were
produced, including a regional plan, master directive plans for Makkah and the Holy Environs and
for seven village cluster centers in the region, and detailed action plans for seven cultural areas in
Makkah, itself including an urban design plan for the area of the Grand Mosque. The project was
sponsored by the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs. The technical team varied in size
depending on the phase of the project, and it involved the services of more than 40 resident and
short-term professionals in addition to the support staff. The interdisciplinary team included, among
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others, planners, architects, urban designers, civil and electrical engineers, landscape architects,
sociologists, economists, statisticians, and transportation planners.
January 1979 to June 1983: Professor and Chair, Department of Community and Regional Planning,
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Full member of the Graduate Faculty. Appointed as the
founding chair for this newly established department in a newly established college. The University
did offer a BS and a master's degree in Community and Regional Planning at the time, and the
department had six faculty positions. During tenure as chair, both degree programs were completely
revised and redesigned, and within a year both degrees were recognized for the first time by the
Planning Recognition Board of the American Institute of Planners (1979). Responsibilities included
administering the teaching, research and the extension services of the Department. In addition,
designed and taught graduate courses in planning including Planning Methods, Advanced Planning
Methods, Planning Theory, Regional Planning and Development, and Planning in Developing
Countries. Selected accomplishments include:
• Served as founding chair for the department, which required establishing new policies and
procedures. Reorganized the curricula and pursued the first national recognition in 1980.
• Played an instrumental role in getting the first major grant for the department and the
college, more than a quarter million dollars, to do integrated area development in
Guatemala.
• Chaired a committee to draft a statement on the mission of the college. The statement was
adopted by the faculty, and was the second such statement among all colleges in the
university.
September 1977 to December 1978:Associate Professor of Urban Analysis and Regional Planning,
Graduate Curriculum in Community Planning and Area Development, and Chair of the Urban
Affairs Program (1975-1978), University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island. Designed and
taught courses in Regional Planning and Development, Regional Analysis, Quantitative Methods,
Planning Theory, Planning in Developing Countries, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and others, at the
graduate level. The Urban Affairs Program offered an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree with
seven areas of concentration housed in five different colleges in the university. Responsibilities
included administering the program and securing the staff from the various colleges to teach the
courses offered by the program.
January 1973 - 1977: Assistant Professor of Urban Analysis and Regional Planning, Graduate
Curriculum in Community Planning and Area Development, and Chair of the Urban Affairs
Program (1975-1978), University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island. Responsibilities as
indicated above.
1972: Director of Planning, Community Development Services Inc., Seattle, Washington. Designed
various planning studies and directed a study on the impacts of the North Cascades Highway on
local communities in its corridor in Washington State.
1971- 1972: Predoctoral Teaching Associate II, Department of Urban Planning, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington. Prime responsibility in teaching quantitative methods to
graduate students.
1969- 1971: Predoctoral Teaching Associate I, Department of Urban Planning, University of
Washington. Similar responsibilities as above.
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........ ....1969- 1970: Predoctoral Research Associate I, Department of Urban Planning, University of
Washington. Organized and conducted a study on node-oriented transportation systems focusing
on offering public transportation alternative to the campus community. The proposal was
implemented later.
Research Assistant, Regional Science Research Institute, Seattle, Washington. Organized and
conducted a study on the spatial distribution of medical doctors by areas of specialties in King
County, Washington.
1966- 1969: Civil Engineer, Eugene Water and Electric Board, Eugene, Oregon. Varied responsibilities
in structural, soils, and hydraulic designs. Half-time during the period 1967-1969.
SELECTED FUNDED PROJECTS
• National Science Foundation. $119,717. 2001. Project titled: Utilizing Three-Dimensional Data in a
Virtual Urban Environment to Support and Evaluate Planning Decisions. Co-Principal Investigator
with Chiu-Shui Chan, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Richard Duane Shinn, and I-Shian Suen.
• US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Community Outreach Partnership Center
(COPC). $399,615. 1998. With Tim Borich, Jerry Knox and Stu Huntington. Serve as the principal
investigator for establishing a Community Outreach Partnership Center in the Enterprise Community
(EC) of Des Moines, Iowa. The project focuses on capacity building and training leaders for
tomorrow in the EC area.
• US Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD work-study program. $149,965. 1997.
Placed four disadvantaged graduate students to work with various planning departments in central
Iowa while completing their graduate degrees.
• Iowa Department of Transportation. Multimodal Investment Analysis Methodology. $84,445. 1996.
With Phil Baumel and Skip Walters. Developed a methodology for how to analyze transportation
investments taking into account the multimodal nature of such investments.
• Subcontract to James Duncan and Associates with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (Phase
2). $10,328. 1996. With Eric Kelly. Study focused on developing a planning process for dealing
with the location of hog confinements.
• Iowa State Water Resources Institute. $22,522. 1995. With Eric Kelly and Tim Keller. Made an
assessment of water resources research needs in the state of Iowa and how the Iowa State Water
Resources Research Center can fulfill these needs.
• Fulbright Fellowship. $49,080. 1994. Worked as a senior research scholar with Damascus
University, Damascus, Syria, and Amman University, Amman, Jordan. Research focused on old
neighborhoods in both cities. Gave lectures at both institutions, and served as a volunteer consultant
with a committee supervising the development of a comprehensive plan for Damascus.
• Martin Marietta. Community Participation in Land Use Planning. $128,585. 1993-1995. With Eric
Kelly and Jerry Knox. Devised a community participation process for comprehensive planning in
Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
• Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Project MARTIN. $60,086. 1993-1994. With Eric Kelly
and Jerry Knox. Established a computer-based interactive system for recycling in the state of Iowa.
• US Department of Energy. Nuclear Waste Site Remediation Applied Land Use Policy Study.
$24,900. 1992-1994. With Eric Kelly. Developed a planning process in which land use and
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remediation processes are integrated together to assist decision makers in formulating policies and
strategies for the future use of land in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
• Henry County, Iowa. Henry County Development Study. $14,503. 1991. With Eric Kelly.
Developed a comprehensive plan for Henry County working with a number of graduate and
undergraduate students in a studio. The county later adopted the plan as the official comprehensive
plan.
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Service to Iowa State University
• Elected to represent the College of Design in the Departmental Executive Officers Council (2001-
2002).
• Appointed by the Vice Provost for Extension to co-chair the Review Committee for the Extension
to Communities Program. The charge for the committee is to identify areas of substantive
specialties for the communities program as well as to design an accountability system for
implementing a project approach to budgeting and financing (2000-2001).
• Appointed by the provost and the president of the Faculty Senate to the University Promotion and
Tenure Review Committee (1996-98). The committee was charged to review the existing university
promotion and tenure document and draft a new one for possible adoption by the university faculty.
The proposed draft of the new promotion and tenure document was approved by the Faculty Senate
and the faculty at-large, 1998.
• ISU Extension Academic Advisory Council (1995-97).
• ISU Wilton Park Committee (1994-98).
• ISU Africa-Middle East Committee (1990-94).
• ISU Subcommittee of the Faculty Senate to Evaluate the Office of the Vice President for Business
and Finance (1991-93).
• Appointed by the ISU vice president of academic affairs to chair the University Transportation
Advisory Council (1986-90). The council reports to the University Administrative Council chaired
by the president of the university, and is responsible for setting parking policies, charges, planning,
maintenance, and operation of the transportation and parking systems on campus.
• Elected by the faculty in the department to represent them in the ISU Faculty Senate (1988-91). In
addition, and as a member of the Faculty Senate, served as a member of the Faculty Senate Council
on Faculty Governance, the Council on Faculty Development, and the Committee on Budget and
Strategic Planning.
• Appointed by the ISU president of the Faculty Senate to chair the Senate Budget and Strategic
Planning Committee, 1989-90.
• Appointed by the ISU provost, with four other faculty members from the university to assist the
associate provost for planning in the preparation of the strategic plan for the university, 1990.
• Appointed by the ISU campus chair of the University Campaign for Prominence to assist in the
effort of raising contributions to the university, (1991-93).
• Appointed by the ISU vice president of academic affairs to chair the University Traffic Committee
(1980-83). Similar responsibilities to those indicated for the Transportation Advisory Council noted
above.
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...........• Appointed by the ISU vice president of academic affairs to serve as a member of the Physical
Facilities Committee (1980-83) and the International Program Coordinating Council (1981-83).
• Department Executive Officers Council (1980-81).
Service to the University of Rhode Island
• Appointed by the URI vice president for academic affairs (1975-78) to chair the interdisciplinary
Urban Affairs Program supervised by an all-university 15-member committee from five colleges and
15 departments. Under tenure as a chair, the program received its own budget for the first time. The
curricula were completely revised, and seven academic concentrations were developed in the five
participating colleges. Links with Rhode Island Junior College were established, and major increases
in enrollment were experienced during this period.
• Appointed by the URI vice president for academic affairs (1976-77) to chair the board of the
University of Rhode Island Summer Festival for the Arts. This board had a budget close to a quarter
of a million dollars. The board included university and community members. The festival offered live
professional Equity-actors performances of opera, ballet, and Broadway musicals. In addition, the
festival organized a ballet school, film series, student theater productions, concerts, and curated
faculty and student exhibits. The festival lasted for two months during the summer of 1977.
Service to the College of Design, Iowa State University
• Appointed by the Dean to the College Strategic Planning Committee (2000-2001).
• Appointed by the Dean to serve as the College United Way liaison for the college (2000-2001).
• Member of the College of Design Cabinet (1995-2002).
• Member of the College of Design Advising Committee (1995-99).
• Appointed by the Dean of the College of Design to serve as a member of the Strategic Planning
Committee. The committee was charged with the preparation of the Strategic Plan for the College
for the period of 1995-2000 (1994-95).
• Appointed by the Dean to serve as a member of the College Computer Task Force. The task force
was charged with articulating a plan for utilizing computer technology in the college (1994-95).
• Member of the College Promotion and Tenure Committee (1994-95 and 1986-90).
• Member of the Curriculum Committee (1991-93 and 1994-95).
• Member of the Photography Committee (1991-98).
• Member of the Awards Committee (1987 and 1994).
• Appointed by the Dean to chair the Commission of Mission of the College of Design. The
commission was charged with preparing a statement of goals and objectives for the newly
established College of Design (1981-83). Representatives from each of the four departments in the
college served on the commission. The commission initiated dialogue on goals and objectives within
each department and among them. A statement was generated as a result of this dialogue, and the
statement was approved later by the faculty of the college. The college was the second college
within the university to have such a statement at the time.
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Service to the Professional Community(APA, AICP, ACSP, PA)
• Appointed to serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Habitat International(October 2002-
present)
• Appointed by the President of the College of Fellows of AICP as a member of the Nomination
Committee for president of the College (June 2002)
• Appointed by the president of the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB) to serve as a member of the
site visit team to reaccredit the undergraduate planning program of Eastern Michigan University
(October 2001).
• Appointed by the president of the PAB to serve as a member of the site visit team to reaccredit the
graduate planning program of the University of Hawaii at Manoa(January 2001).
• Appointed by the president of PAB to chair the site visit team to reaccredit the graduate program at
the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada (March 1999).
• Appointed by the president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning to serve on the
national Committee on the Academy and Profession (I 998-present).
• Appointed by the president of the American Planning Association to chair a national committee to
select new editors for the Journal of the American Planning Association, 1997.
• Appointed by the president of the PAB to chair the site visit team to accredit the graduate program
at Cleveland State University (1996) and to serve as a member of another team to reaccredit the
undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (1996).
• Appointed to serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Planning Literature (1996-present).
• Appointed by the president of the PAB to chair the site visit team to reaccredit the graduate and
undergraduate programs at Alabama A& M University, February 1996.
• Appointed by the president of the PAB to chair the site visit team to reaccredit the undergraduate
program at the California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo, 1995.
• Appointed by the president of the PAB as a member of the site visit team to reaccredit the
undergraduate and the graduate planning degree programs at California Polytechnic University at
Pomona, 1992.
• Appointed by the president of the PAB as a member of the site visit team to reaccredit the graduate
planning degree program (master's degree) at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1990.
• Appointed by the president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) to the
following national committees: ACSP Committee on Electoral Process, Diversity, Awards and
Recognition (1990); ACSP Committee for Distinguished Friends of Planning Education Award
(1991),- and the Commission on Globalization of Planning Education (1992-1994).
• Appointed by the editors of the Journal of Planning Fducation and Research to the Chester Rapkin
Award Committee to select annually the best article in the Journal in 1988. Later, appointed by the
editors to chair the committee (1989-92).
• Serve periodically as a manuscript referee for the Journal of the American Planning Association,
the Journal of Planning Education and Research, the Journal, of Urban Affairs, Journal of
Planning Literature and the Ul-Umran Journal published by the King Saud University, Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia.
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Public Service to the Community
• Appointed by the President of Ames Chamber of Commerce to serve on the Ames Vision 2020
Committee (May 2002-present)
• Appointed to serve on the Breaking the Boundaries Committee, a city-university group aimed at
enhancing diversity in Ames (2000- present).
• Appointed to the United Way Board of Story County (2000-present).
• Appointed to the Board of Directors of Youth and Shelter Services (YSS), Inc., Ames, Iowa(1998-
Present). YSS, a nonprofit organization with about 200 employees in central Iowa, provides
preventive, education, treatment and residential services to children, youth, and families; to advocate
on their behalf and to help them solve problems, grow, and be self sufficient, responsible,
contributing members of society. Also serve as a member of the Buildings and Ground Committee,
Foster Care Committee, and the Long-Range Planning Committee of YSS.
• Appointed by the Executive Director of Youth and Shelter Services, Inc., Ames, Iowa, to serve as a
member on their Municipal Building Historic Preservation Committee (1995-97).
• Appointed by the mayor of Ames as a member of the Planning and Zoning Commission(1995-
2000), and served as the chair (1998-99).
• Appointed by the Mayor of Ames to a committee to select a consultant to update the Land Use
Planning Policy Plan and the Zoning and Sub-division Regulations and Ordinance for the City of
Ames, 1993.
• Appointed by the mayor of Ames to serve as a member of the Planning and Zoning Commission
(1992-1993).
• Appointed by the mayor of Ames to the Project Management Team of the Historic Preservation
Reconnaissance and Intensive Survey of Ames in 1990. The consultant made his final presentation
to the city council, the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Ames Historic Preservation
Commission on May 4, 1992.
• Appointed by the mayor of Ames in April 1988 to the newly established Historic Preservation
Commission, and soon after was elected by the members of the commission as its founding chair
was re-elected annually for the duration of service period (1988-92). Under tenure as a chair, the
commission approved the first historic district in the city, the Old Town District of Ames, and
developed design guidelines, property designation, adopted and enforced local preservation
regulations, and recommended the designations of two historic landmarks. In addition, the city
council approved a request to conduct a comprehensive historic survey of the downtown area to
determine its historical significance, and a historic reconnaissance survey of all structures within the
1943 boundaries of the city.
MEMBERSHIPS
American Planning Association
College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners
American Planning Association, Iowa Chapter
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society of International Scholars
AWARDS
American Planning Association—Iowa Chapter, Special Achievement Award, 2000.
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American Institute of Certified Planners, Fellow, 2000.
Planning Accreditation Board, Service Award, 1999.
Planning Accreditation Board, Service Award, 1997.
Planning Accreditation Board, Service Award, 1996.
Planning Accreditation Board, Service Award, 1996.
Planning Accreditation Board, Service Award, 1995.
Fulbright Fellowship, 1994.
Journal of Planning Education and Research, Service Award for Chairing the Chester Rapkin Award
Committee, 1992.
Wilton Park Award, Iowa State University, 1990.
Mellon Fellowship, University of Washington, 1970-1972.
PUBLICATIONS
Papers Presented
"The Status of Land Use Planning in Iowa: A Comprehensive Inventory," presented at the annual
meeting of the Association of the Collegiate School of Planning, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2-5,
2000 (co-authored with Timothy O. Borich and Stuart Huntington).
"Globalization and Planning Theory," presented at the 40'h annual meeting of the Association of
Collegiate School of planning, Pasadena, California, November 5-8, 1998
"Preserving Old Neighborhoods of Damascus, Syria," presented at the City, Space, and Globalization
Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Feb. 26-28, 1998.
"Teaching Planning Methods Through Modules," presented at the ACSP Annual Meeting, Fort
Lauderdale, FL, November 6-10, 1997. (Co-authored with Thomas Sanchez and Eric Damian
Kelly.)
"Continuing Education for Professional Planners," presented at the Iowa Transportation Planning
Conference, Ames, Iowa, August 26-27, 1997.
"Shared Government Services in Iowa Among Municipalities," presented at IDED Conference on
Targeting Government Services at Ames, Iowa, April 1997.
"Development Pressures in Old Neighborhoods in Damascus, Syria: The Case of Midan," presented at
the Joint International ACSP/AESOP Congress, Toronto, Canada, July 25-28, 1996.
"Sharing of Governmental Services," presented at the Annual Urban Affairs Association Meeting, New
York, March 13-16, 1996. (Co-authored with Thomas W. Sanchez and Timothy O. Borich.)
"Integrating Land-Use and Hazardous Site Clean-Up Models," presented at the annual meeting of the
Air and Waste Management Association, Washington D.C., May 10-12, 1995. (Co-authored with
Eric Damian Kelly.)
"Evolution of Planning Theory in the United States," Presented as the Agha Khan Lecture to the faculty
and students of the College of Architecture at Amman University, Amman, Jordan, April 19, 1994.
"Evolution of Planning in Jordan," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association
Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 21-24, 1993.
"Investments in Transportation Projects in Third World Countries," presentation made to a seminar in
transportation planning at Iowa State University, April 21, 1992.
"A Pilgrimage to Mecca," presentation made to the Senior Citizen Club in Boone, Iowa, April, 14,
1992.
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"Planning and the Pilgrimage to the Holy city of Mecca," presentation made to the National Guard
Officers Club in Des Moines, Iowa, April 6, 1992.
"The Peace Process in the Middle East," presentation made to Buchanan Hall Club, Iowa State
University, March 26, 1992.
"The Comprehensive Plan," presentation made to the planning staff of the Municipality of Dubai, United
Arab Emirate, November 24, 1991.
"The Impacts of the Gulf Crisis," presentation sponsored by the Iowa Peace Institute. The presentation
was made to the Area Education Association of Sioux City, Iowa, March 11, 1991, and to the Area
Education Association of Marshalltown, Iowa, 1991.
"Financing Public Infrastructures," presentation to the Back to School Conference of the Iowa Chapter
of the American Planning Association, Jan. 1991.
"Community Planing and Community Planners," presentation to the Art Teachers Workshop, Iowa
State University, Ames, Iowa, Nov. 1990.
"A Pilgrimage to Mecca." Invited presentation to the U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce, New York,
May 1990. One of a series of presentations focusing on the Arab World.
"The Decentralized Approach to Urbanization in Syria." Presented at the Symposium on Equity and
National Development Planning in Third World Countries of the College of Urban Affairs and
Public Policy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, October 30, 1989.
"Future Growth Parameters of the Holy City of Makkah, Saudi Arabia." Presented at the annual
meeting of the American Muslim Social Scientists Association, University of New York at
Brockton, Brockton, New York, October 26-29, 1989.
"Planning Theory and the Political Economy Approach." Presented at the Annual Meeting of
Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, Oregon, October 5-7, 1989 (with J.
Guendel).
"Housing, Health, and the Urban Environment: Perspective on the Middle East and Mechanism for
Positive Change. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association Meeting,
Charlotte, North Carolina, 1990 (with Fritz Wagner and Alama H. Young).
"Urbanization and the Primate Cities of the Arab World." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Urban
Affairs Association, Baltimore, March 15-19, 1989.
"Urbanization and City Size Distribution in Syria." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Urban
Affairs Association, St. Louis, March 9-12, 1988.
"Transportation in Rural Guatemala." Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of
Collegiate Schools of Planning, Chicago, October 21-24, 1982.
"Evaluation of Development Projects in Developing Countries." Presented at the International
Symposium of Islamic Architecture and Urbanism, King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia,
January 5-10, 1980 (with A. Hussieni and J. Turnage).
"Impacts of Urbanization on the Development of Syria." Presented at the International Symposium on
Islamic Architecture and Urbanism, King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, January 5-10,
1980.
"Cost-Benefit Analysis is Alive and Well and Living in the Courts." Presented at the Symposium on the
Role of Policy Analysis in the Education of Planners, Department of Urban Studies and Planning,
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 11-12, 1979 (with R.O. Brooks).
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"Fiscal and Environmental Impacts of Subdivisions: the Case of Small Towns in Rhode Island."
Presented at the Land Use Planning and Conservation Workshop, Iowa State University, Ames,
Iowa, March 15-16, 1979.
"Regionalism and Economic Development in New England." Presented at the Workshop on Energy,
Water and Regional Development, sponsored by the New England Council of Water Centers.
Boston, October 27-28, 1977.
"Planning for Military Bases Conversion in Rhode Island and Massachusetts." Presented at the annual
meeting of the New England Business and Economic Development Conference, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, October 3 1-November 1, 1975. An abstract of this paper appeared in
Robert H. Plattner(ed.),Proceedings of the New England Business and Development Conference.
Amherst, University of Massachusetts, School of Business Administration, 1975 (with Brian
Barber).
"Spatial Integration and Transportation Planning in Third World Countries." Presented at the Annual
Conference of the American Institute of Planners, Denver, October 1974.
Books, Articles, and Professional Reports
"Teaching Planning Methods Through Modules." The Journal of Planning Education and Research,
Vol. 18, No. 4, Summer 1999, pp. 353-360. (co-authored with Thomas W. Sanchez and Eric
Damian Kelly.)
Multimodal Investment Analysis Methodology, Phase one: The Conceptual Model. Clyde K. Walter, C.
Phillip Baumel, Riad G. Mahayni, Thomas Sanchez, Michael Lipsman, Takehiro, and Sujaya Rathi.
Ames: Iowa State University, Center for Transportation Research and Education, December 1998.
"Preserving Old Neighborhoods of Damascus, Syria," in City, Space and Globalization:An
International Perspective, edited by Hemalata C. Dandekar. Ann Arbor: College of Architecture
and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, 1998, pp. 98-105.
"Sharing of Public Works Services by Small Towns", in Journal of Public Works Management and
Policy, Vol. 2, No. 4, April 1998, pp. 327-339 (co-authored with Thomas W. Sanchez and Timothy
O. Borich.)
An assessment of Water Resources Research needs and opportunities in Iowa: The Role of the Iowa
State Water Resources Research Institute—Department of Community and Regional Planning, Iowa
State University, 1996. (co-authored with Gary Taylor, Tim Keller, and Mark Kuiper.)
"Integrating Land-Use and Hazardous Sites Clean-Up Models," in Challenges and Innovations in the
Management of Hazardous Waste, edited by Robert A. Lewis and Gunter Subklew. Pittsburgh: The
Management Association, 1996, pp. 151-162. (co-authored with Eric Damian Kelly.)
"Review of Albert O. Hirshman,Development Project Observed, and Lloyd Rodwin and Donald S.
Schon(editors)Rethinking the Development Experience. The review was requested by and
submitted to the Journal of Planning Education and Research Vol. 15, No. 1, 1995, pp. 67-71.
Globalizing North American Planning Education, Final Report. Submitted by the Commission on
Global Approaches to Planning Education to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning,
1994. Co-authored with Farokh Afshar, Hooshang Amirahmadi, Gill-Chinn Lim, Hemalata
Dandekar, William Goldsmith, Alan Kreditor, Linda Lacy, Paul Niebanck, and Ibrahim Jammal
(Chairman).
Planning for Cleanup:Nuclear Waste Site Remeditation Applied Land-Use Policy Study. Albuquerque:
Laboratory Directors' Environmental and Occupational/Public Health Standards Group (U.S.
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Department of Energy), 1994. Co-authored with Eric Damian Kelly and the assistance of Lisa
Bookin, Leanne Lawrie, and Mary Lee Smick, 1994.
"Decentralized Urbanization in Syria," in Urban Development in the Muslim World, edited by
Hooshang Amirahmadi and Salah S. El-Shakhs. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy
Research. 1993, pp. 213-232.
1992 Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Article in Volume 11," in Journal of Planning Education
and Research, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1993, pp. 166-167.
"The Chester Rapkin Award."Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1991, pp.
163-164.
"Crisis Has Long-term Impact on Arab Nations,"Des Moines Register, December 4, 1990; reprinted in
Mainstream, Vol. XXIX, No. 18, February 1991, published in New Delhi, India.
The Need for Transportation Alternatives for the Rural Elderly. Ames, Iowa: Midwest Transportation
Center, Iowa State University, 1990 (with M. Kihl and W. Goudy).
"A Decentralized Approach to Urbanization: The Case of Syria," in Journal of Planning Education and
Research, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1990, pp. 117-125.
"The Muslims' Holy Pilgrimage of Prayer", The Des Moines Register, July 13, 1989, p. 11 A.
Feasibility Study of District Heating and Cooling in Des Moines, Iowa. 1987 (with Eino Kainlauri and
Ron Nelson). Ames, IA: College of Design Research Institute, Iowa State University.
Feasibility Study of District Heating and Cooling in Ames, Iowa. 1987 (with Eino Kainlauri and Ron
Nelson). Ames, IA: College of Design Research Institute, Iowa State University.
Served as a Technical Coordinator for the Makkah Region Planning and Development Project, Makkah,
Saudi Arabia. The Project completed the following reports, under my supervision as a technical
coordinator, which were published both in Arabic and English by the Deputy Ministry for Town
Planning, Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Report 1: Background Information, Data Deficiencies, and Survey Design, 1984.
Report 2: Existing Conditions:
Vol. 1:Physical Background and Infrastructure, 1985.
Vol. 2:Population and Demographic Characteristics, 1985.
Vol. 3: The Economy, 1985.
Vol. 4:Agriculture and Water Resources, 1985.
Vol. 5:Land Use and Activity Pattern, 1985.
Vol. 6: Traffic and Transportation, 1985.
Vol. 7:Planning Administration and Management, 1985.
Vol. 8:Hajj, 1985.
Vol. 9: Overview, 1985.
Appendices for Report 2, Part 1 of 2 and 2 of 2, 1985.
Report 3: The Regional Plan:Makkah Planning Region, 1985.
Atlas of the Regional Plan, 1985.
Report 4:
Vol. 1:Makkah Master Directive Plan, 1986.
Vol. 2:Holy Environs Master Directive Plan, 1986
Atlas of Makkah and the Holy Environs Master Directive Plan, 1986.
Vol. 1:Existing Conditions, 1986.
Vol. 2:Proposals, 1986.
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Report 5:Master Directive Plans for the Village Cluster Centers, 1986.
Atlas of the Master Directive Plans for the Village Cluster Centers, 1986.
Report 6: Cultural Area Plans for Makkah Planning Region, 1986.
Vol. 1: The Haram Cultural Area, 1986.
Vol. 2: Cultural Area Plans:AI Mo'ala, As-Sakkaf, A1-Oashalah, Jabal Al Nour, Jabal
Al-Thour, 1986.
Atlas for Vol. 1, 1986.
Atlas for Vol. 2, 1986.
Report 7: The Final Report, 1986.
"Evaluation of Development Projects in Developing Countries." Translated to Arabic and Published in
Islamic Capitals and Cities, Organization of Islamic Capitals and Cities, Makkah, Vol. 2, June
1984, pp. 49-68 (with A. Hussieni and J. Turnage).
"Planning Decisions -Political and Technical,"Ames Daily Tribune Weekender Edition, January 23,
1982, p. A4.
Rural Transportation in Guatemala. Department of Community and Regional Planning, Iowa State
University, Integrated Area Development Project in Guatemala, 1982.
Fiscal and Environmental Impacts of Subdivision Regulations in Rhode Island. University of Rhode
Island, Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 430, December 1979 (with Meg Reich).
Urbanization in the Middle East. Monticello: Vance Bibliographies Public Administration Series, June
1978.
"Regionalism and Economic Development in New England," in Brookhaven National Laboratory and
New England Council of Water Center Directors, Workshop on the Impact of Availability on
Electric Energy Production in New England: The Implications for Economic Development.
Boston, October, 1977.
Tourist Facilities in Narragansett. Narragansett: Narragansett Chamber of Commerce, July 1977 (with
David Boutin).
"Transportation Strategies in Developing Countries," in Journal of the Social Sciences, published by the
University of Kuwait, Vol. V, No. 2, July 1977, pp. 18-27.
Minimizing Travel Time to Hospital Beds in Rhode Island. Providence: Rhode Island Department of
Health, Office of Health System Planning, June 1977 (with Brian Barber and Michael Branson).
"Re-orienting Transportation Planning Rationale in Developing Countries," in Traffic Quarterly, Vol.
XXXI, No. 2, April 1977, pp. 351-365.
"Planning Theory in Retrospect: The Process of Paradigm Change," in The Journal of the American
Institute of Planners, Vol. 43, No. 1, January 1977, pp. 62-71 (with Thomas Galloway).
"Review of Regional Planning.A Comprehensive View," by J. Alden and R. Morgan. Published by
John Wiley and Sons, 1974, in The Journal of the American Institute of Planners, Vol. 42, October
1976.
Transportation Planning in Third World Countries:An Annotated Bibliography. Monticello: Council
of Planning Librarians, 1976.
"Spatial Integration and Transportation Planning in Third-World Countries," in Richard C. Podolski
(ed.),Frontiers in Transportation Planning. Washington, D.C. The American Institute of Planners,
1975, pp. 69-80.
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The North Cascades Highway:A Study of Its Impacts on Local Community Economics. Seattle,
Community Development Services, Inc.,November 1972 (Co-author).
Passive and Dynamics Aspects of Transportation Planning in Developing Countries. Dissertation.
University of Washington, 1972.