• 2007: "Takings: The Uses and Abuses of Eminent Domain and Land Use Regulation"
• 2007: "Development and the Environment: Coordinating Fragmented Authorities in Metropolitan Areas"
• 2006: "Public and Private Institutions, Political Action, and the Practice of Local Government"
• 2005: "State and Local Government Regulations and Economic Development"
• 2005: "Evaulating Growth Management in Florida"
• 2004: "A Conference to Develop a Research Agenda on the Relationship Between Urban Design Patterns and Quality of Life, Based on the Welaunee Development, Tallahassee, Florida"
• 2003: "Adaptive Governance of Florida's Water Conflicts"
• 2002: "Decentralized Governance: The Implications of Government Organization in Metropolitan Areas"
• 2001: "The Causes and Consequences of Exclusionary Regulations"
• 2000: "Land-Use Planning for the 21st Century"

Critical Issues Symposium 2007: "Takings: The Uses and Abuses of Eminent Domain and Land Use Regulation"

April 20-21, 2007

This symposium is jointly sponsored with the Program in Law, Economics and Business, College of Law. The organizers, Bruce Benson and Matthew Brown, have assembled together somet of the top legal scholars and economists in the nation to explore the Keto v. New London decision and issues related to eminent domain and regulatory takings.

Critical Issues Symposium 2007: "Development and the Environment: Coordinating Fragmented Authorities in Metropolitan Areas"

February 15-17, 2007

This symposium is organized by John Scholtz, Richard Feiock and T.K. Ahn, and will produce an edited volume bringing together leading scholars in political science and public administration. The focus will be on the issue of coordination of government policies dealing with development and environmental issues in metropolitan areas.

Critical Issues Symposium 2006: "Public and Private Institutions, Political Action, and the Practice of Local Government"

February 10-11, 2006

This symposium addressed issues of political behaviors, the development of public and private institutions, and the intersection of behavior and institutions in the practice of local government. Papers from the conference appear in the October 2006 issue of The Review of Policy Research, edited by Center faculty member Charles Barrilleaux.

List of presenters:

• Jeremy Grovers, Northern Illinois University
• Leah Brooks, McGill University
• Richard Engstrom, Georgia State University
• Martha Kropf, University of Missouri–Kansas City
• Christine Kelleher, University of Michigan–Dearborn
• Jered Carr, Wayne State University
• Dennis Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Barbara McCabe, Arizona State University
• Robert Nelson, University of Maryland

Critical Issues Symposium 2005: "State and Local Government Regulations and Economic Development"

March 4-5, 2005

At this symposium, scholars from throughout the nation presented their original research investigating the effects of regulations on local economic development. Do these regulations increase or hinder economic development and how can they be improved? The papers were published in a special issue of the Journal of Regional Science (February 2006), edited by Keith Ihlanfeldt, Center Director.

List of presenters:

• Brett Badin, Tufts University
• Paul Brace, Rice University
• Ed Coulson, Penn State University
• Kelly Edmiston, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• Richard Feiock, Florida State University
• Keith Ihlanfeldt, Florida State University
• Elena Irwin, Ohio State University
• Michael Pagano, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Robert Wassmer, California State - Sacramento
• Abigail York, University of Indiana
• Jeffrey Zabel, Tufts University

Critical Issues Symposium 2005: "Evaulating Growth Management in Florida"

January 14-15, 2005

This symposium involved FSU faculty from economics, urban and regional planning, and public administration, as well as outside experts presenting original research on various aspects of growth management planning and implementation in Florida. Scholars assessed the degree to which growth management has been successful or unsuccessful in Florida and what options are available in the future. The papers presented at the conference will be published in book form in the near future.

List of presenters:

• John Carruthers, University of Washington
• Tim Chapin, Florida State University
• Robert Deyke, Florida State University
• Harrison Higgins, Florida State University
• Randall Holcombe, Florida State University
• Gerrit Knapp, University of Maryland
• Chris Nelson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• James Nicholas, University of Florida
• Tom Pelham, ex-Secretary, Department of Community Affairs, State of Florida; Fowler White Boggs Banker PA
• Thomas Sanchez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• Yan Song, University of North Carolina
• Ruth Steiner, University of Florida

Critical Issues Symposium 2004: "A Conference to Develop a Research Agenda on the Relationship Between Urban Design Patterns and Quality of Life, Based on the Welaunee Development, Tallahassee, Florida"

This symposium brought to campus nationally known experts on "Smart Growth" to assist the DeVoe Moore Center develop a research agenda on Welaunee, a large infill, mixed-use development located within the City of Tallahassee.

List of presenters:

• Charles Connerly, Florida State University
• Edward Carlson, Florida State University
• Joel Embry, President of HomeTown Neighborhoods, Inc.
• Ann Forsyth, University of Minnisota
• Keith Ihlanfeldt, Florida State University
• Gerrit Knaap, University of Maryland
• Kevin Leyden, West Virginia University
• Robert Marans, University of Michigan
• Chris Nelson, Virginia Tech
• David Powell, Attorney with Hopping, Green and Sams
• David Rasmussen, Florida State University
• Daphne Spain, University of Virginia

Critical Issues Symposium 2003: "Adaptive Governance of Florida's Water Conflicts"

November 21, 2003

Increasingly, water conflicts extend beyond the statutory authority, competence, geographical jurisdictions, and political constituencies of highly specialized governing authorities. The DMC Critical Issues Symposium on Adaptive Governance and Florida's Water Conflicts, organized by John T. Scholz (Eppes Professor of Political Science) and Bruce Stiftel (Professor of Urban and Regional Planning), focused on the evolution of new institutions that attempt to resolve conflicts among competing authorities in the seemingly water-rich Eastern United States. Nine case studies of water quality, water quantity, and habitat preservation or restoration in Florida were chosen to span the range of conflicts crossing fragmented regulatory boundaries. Each study surveyed the history of the conflict and then focused on the innovative institutional arrangements—some successful, some not­that evolved to grapple with the resulting challenges. Then 22 scholars and practitioners in urban planning, political science, engineering, law, policy, administration, and geology offered theoretical and experience-based perspectives on the cases. These analyses were organized around five challenges that new institutions must overcome to develop sustainable solutions for water users—Who is to be involved in the policy process? How are they to interact? How is science to be used? How are users and the public to be made aware? How can solutions be made efficient and equitable? The cases and analyses were published as Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict by Resources for the Future Press.

List of presenters:

• John Forester, Professor of City & Regional Planning, Cornell University
• Richard Hamann, Associate in Law, University of Florida
• Robert M. Jones, Director, Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium
• Mark Lubell, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis
• Janet G. Llewellyn, Deputy Director, Division of Water Resource Management, Fla. Dept. of Environmental Protection
• Jerry L. Maxwell, General Manager, Tampa Bay Water
• Davis L. Moore, Ex. Dir., SW Fla. Water Management District
• Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Connie Ozawa, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
• Donald J. Polmann, Dir. of Science & Eng., Tampa Bay Water
• Paul J. Quirk, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Martha R. Roberts, Deputy Commissioner, Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services
• Lawrence S. Rothenberg, Max McGraw Distinguished Professor of Management & the Environment, Northwestern University
• B. Suzi Ruhl, Director, Public Health and Law Program, Environmental Law Insitute
• Paul Sabatier, Professor of Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, Davis
• Rock Salt, Everglades Program Coordinator, U.S. Department of the Interior
• Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at MIT

Critical Issues Symposium 2002: "Decentralized Governance: The Implications of Government Organization in Metropolitan Areas"

October 4-5, 2002

The study of local government in political science, planning, and public administration has been taken with the concepts of regionalism and regional governance in recent years. To some, regionalism primarily entails traditional prescriptions for metropolitan areas such as centralization and consolidation of governments and functions.

Others have pursued an alternative path to regionalism based on both cooperation and competition among decentralized governmental units in urban areas. The decentralized approach to regionalism emphasizes self governance through horizontally and vertically linked organizations. While these linkages are primarily among governments, they can also include voluntary, not-for-profit and private organizations and service producers.

The papers presented at the symposium were original work written by well-known scholars from a variety of disciplines. Collectively the papers focused on:

1. Theories to understand and evaluate the organization of governments in metropolitan areas;
2. The consequences of government organizations for local politics, policy and services;
3. The implications of centralization and decentralization for regional governance.

The papers presented at the symposium were published in the book Decentralized Governance: The Organization of Governments in Metropolitan Areas, edited by Richard Feiock, Georgetown University Press, Summer 2004.

List of Participants:

• Jered Carr, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University.
• Richard Feiock, Askew School of Public Administration, Florida State University.
• Kathryn A. Foster, Professor of Planning SUNY Buffalo.
• Paul G. Lewis, research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.
• David Lowery, Thomas J. Pearsall Professor of Political Science at University of North Carolina.
• Max Neiman, Association Dean and Director of the Center for Social and Behavioral Science, University of California, Riverside.
• Ronald Oakerson, Economics Professor at Houghton College.
• Mark Schneider, Professor of Political Science at SUNY Stony Brook.
• Elaine B. Sharp, University Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas.
• Robert Stein, Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science at Rice University.

Critical Issues Symposium 2001: "The Causes and Consequences of Exclusionary Regulations"

November 9-10, 2001

The 2001 Critical Issues Symposium was held at Florida State University November 9-10 and focused on local government exclusionary regulations. These regulations include exclusionary zoning as well as other possibly exclusionary policies, such as subdivision ordinances, building codes, and permitting procedures.

Exclusionary regulations limit the housing opportunities of low-income households, either by artificially inflating the cost of housing or by restricting the types of housing available. As a result, it is frequently alleged that exclusionary regulations contribute to the growing income segregation within urban areas. They may also contribute to a myriad of other related urban problems, including the concentration of poverty, racial segregation, spatial mismatch within the low-skilled labor market, urban sprawl, and suburban traffic congestion. Recently, concerns over the suburban exclusion of immigrant and non-traditional families have also been voiced.

At the 2001 Symposium original papers were presented by well-known scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. Collectively the papers focused on 1) the factors that give rise to exclusionary practices, 2) the consequences of exclusionary regulations, and 3) policy options designed to mitigate the inefficiencies and inequities resulting from housing exclusion. The papers were published in the February 2004 issue of Urban Studies, in a special issue of the journal edited by Keith Ihlanfeldt, Center Director.

Paper presenters included:

• William A. Fischel, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College
• Robert Cervero, Department of Planning, University of California-Berkeley
• Dan McMillen and John McDonald, Center for Urban Real Estate, University of Illinois-Chicago
• Arthur Nelson, Department of City Planning, Georgia Technological Institute
• Richard Feiock, Askew School of Public Administration, Florida State University
• Allen K. Lynch, Department of Economics, Mercer University and David W. Rasmussen, James H. Gapinski Professor of Economics and Director, DeVoe L. Moore Center, Florida State University
• Deva Deka, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University
• James Clingermayer, Department of Political Science, Northern Kentucky University
• Elizabeth Gerber, Department of Political Science, University of California-San Diego
• Barbara McCabe, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University

Critical Issues Symposium 2000: "Land-Use Planning for the 21st Century"

The Center's first Critical Issues Symposium, Land-Use Planning for the 21st Century, was held on the FSU campus on March 3 and 4, 2000. Professor Randall Holcombe and Dr. Samuel R. Staley of the Reason Public Policy Institute organized the conference that featured experts on urban and regional planning from universities and the private sector. Steven Seibert, Secretary of the Department of Community Affairs, made a speech that emphasized the importance of developing new perspectives on land-use planning.

The Center's first book was published in July, 2001. Edited by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel Staley, Smarter Growth: Market-Based Strategies of Land-Use Planning in the 21st Century (Greenwood Press) is a compilation of papers presented at the 2000 Critical Issues Symposium. It is available at many bookstores, including Amazon.com.

Over 100 persons registered for the symposium, including representatives from 15 political jurisdictions.

The following presented papers at the Conference:

• Peter Gordon, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California.
• Robert W. Poole, President, Reason Foundation.
• Wendell Cox, Wendell Cox Consultancy.
• Kenneth Green, Director of Environmental Programs at Reason Public Policy Institute.
• Jefferson G. Edgens, Associate Professor, Department of Forestry, University of Kentucky.
• Roger Meiners, Professor of Law and Economics, University of Texas at Arlington, and Andrew Morriss, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University.
• Gerard C.S. Mildner, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University.
• Robert Bruegmann, Professor, Program in Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Steven Hayward, Senior Fellow, Pacific Research Institute, San Francisco.
• Samuel Staley, Director Urban Futures Programs, Reason Public Policy Institute, Los Angeles.
• Randall G. Holcombe, DeVoe L. Moore Professor of Economics, Florida State University.

Commentary on the papers was provided by Dale Eacker, Jeff Bielling, Tom Pierce and Maria Cahill from the Florida Department of Community Affairs, Professor Richard Feiock from FSU's Askew School of Public Administration, and Sam Casella, FSU's Department of Urban and Regional Planning.