PPA 500 (Section 1) -- THESIS SEMINAR GRADUATE PROGRAM IN PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO.

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1 PPA 500 (Section 1) -- THESIS SEMINAR GRADUATE PROGRAM IN PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO Professor: Rob Wassmer, Ph.D. Fall or Home Page: Office: Room 3037, Tahoe Hall Office Phone: (916) Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00? 6:00 p.m.; and by appointment if necessary Course Held: 8 Saturdays throughout semester (September 6, 13, 20; October 4, 18; November 1, 15; December 6), 9 a.m. to 12 noon, Tahoe 1027 NOTE THAT MANY OF THE WEB LINKS NEED TO BE ACCESSED USING A SAC LINK ACCOUNT OR A CSUS COMPUTER Required Material: (1) CSUS Guide For Thesis/Project Format, Latest Edition, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, CSUS, available for purchase at bookstore or free on web at ; (2) A Pocket Style Manual, 2000, Diana Hacker, Third Edition, Bedford s; available for purchase at bookstore or on web at Amazon.Com.; (3) How to Write a Thesis, 2002 (5th Edition), Harry Teitelbaum, Macmillan; available for purchase at bookstore or on web at Amazon.Com.; (4) Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses, 2002, Edited by Gregory D. Squires, Urban Institute Pres Press; available for purchase at bookstore or on web at Amazon.Com ;

2 (5) Redefining Urban and Suburban America, 2003 (Volume 1), Edited by Bruce Katz and Robert Lang, Brookings; available for purchase at bookstore or on web at Amazon.Com ; You will need to buy all required books in the summer of 2003 and begin reading before our first meeting. There are other readings that are featured below, but they will be provided to you in a different manner. When a reading assignment for a particular class meeting is given, the text should be brought to the class meeting. Access: Occasionally I will also ask you to read material from the. Thus, access to the is also required for this class. If you do not have it at work or home, access is provided to students at the university library. Objective: To provide faculty and peer guidance in preparation of material to satisfy the Master?s thesis requirement. This includes clarification of general program expectations, familiarization with research resources, and basic support in a structured environment of feedback. Method: This course is designed such that all enrolled students will work on a topic of their choosing that relates to either a cause or consequence of urban sprawl in the United States over the period 1990 to This opportunity exists because I am interested in this research topic and have applied for a U.S. Housing and Urban Development grant to study it. (Be certain that you have read my proposal as background information.) This is the second group Master's project that I will conduct as a PPA faculty member. The first was sponsored by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. The final report from this study can be found at Given the relative success that PPA Master's students had in completing their thesis in a timely manner, and the real world research experience it conveyed, I have decided to try another. All students enrolled will be required to write their own individual thesis on the topic of a cause or consequence of sprawl. The course will be structured such that each meeting on Saturday deals with another aspect of the tasks necessary to complete the thesis. The benefits of this group approach are that the path to thesis completion is well laid out and one semester of hard work will get it done. You will have the support of others who are looking at the same issue and meeting at least bi-weekly to discuss it. You will also be completing this project in an environment that is very similar to what is done in the real world. I would estimate that besides the 3 hours of classroom time required each time we meet, this course will require at least an additional 8 hours a week of work outside of classroom. Prerequisite:

3 You must have completed PPA 220A and 207 to be enrolled in this course. In addition, you must have completed all of the core courses in the Public Policy and Administration Program (PPA 200, 205, 207, 210, 220A, 220B, 230, 240) with at least a B- in each course and an average grade of B or better in all. The one exception is that you are taking your final required core course(s) this semester or next. PPA 500B: Those who began the program in the fall of 1998 or later, and who do not complete their entire thesis by the time that PPA500B is offered in January 2004, will be required to enroll in PPA500B. Background Reading: Defining sprawl Brueckner, Jan K. (2000), "Urban Sprawl: Diagnosis and Remedies," A Critical Issues Paper, University of Illinois: Institute of Government and Public Affairs. Available at Fulton, William et al. (2001), "Who Sprawls Most? How Growth Patterns Differ Across the U.S.," Survey Series, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. Available at Galster, George et. al (2001), "Wrestling Sprawl to the Ground: Defining and Measuring an Elusive Concept," Housing Policy Debate, 12(4), pp Available at Wassmer, Robert W. (2002), "Defining Excessive Decentralization in California and Other Western States," California Senate Office of Research. Available at Wasserman, Miriam (2000), "Urban Sprawl," Regional Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Available at Opinions on sprawl Bank of America (1997), "Beyond Sprawl: New Patterns of Growth to Fit the New California," San Francisco, CA. Available at Ewing, Reid (Winter, 1997), "Is Los-Angeles-Style Sprawl Desirable?," APA Journal, pp Available at d=2&rqt=309. Gordon, Peter and Harry W. Richardson (2000), "Critiquing Sprawl's Critics," Policy Analysis (365), Cato Institute. Available at

4 Katz, Bruce (December, 1999), "Divided We Sprawl," The Atlantic Monthly. Available at Mills, Edwin S. (Summer, 1999), "Truly Smart 'Smart Growth'," Illinois Real Estate Letter, Office of Real Estate Research, University of Illinois. Available at The New Democrat (March/April, 1999), Issue devoted to "Sprawl: The Revolt in America's Suburbs." Available at PPIC (November, 2002), Special Survey on Land Use, San Francisco, CA. Available at Sowell, Thomas (Summer, 1999), "The Brawl over So-Called Sprawl," llinois Real Estate Letter, Office of Real Estate Research, University of Illinois. Available at Causes of sprawl Brueckner, Jan K. and David A. Fansler (1983), "The Economics of Urban Sprawl: Theory and Evidence on the Spatial Size of Cities," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 65(3), Available at 333c0050d39564&backcontext=results&config=jstor&dowhat=Acrobat&0.pdf Brueckner, Jan K. (2000), "Urban Sprawl: Lessons from Urban Economics," Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Illinois. Available at Brueckner, Jan K. (2000), "Urban Sprawl and the Property Tax," Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Illinois. Available at Glaeser, Edward L. and Mathew E. Kahn (2003), "Sprawl and Urban Growth," NBER Working Paper 9733, Cambridge, MA. Available at Green, Richard K. (July 1999), "Nine Causes of Sprawl," Working Paper, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin School of Business. Available at Lang, Robert E. (2003), "Open Spaces, Bounded Places: Does the American West's Arid Landscape Yield Dense Metropolitan Growth?" Housing Policy Debate, 13(4), pp Available at Mieszkowski, Peter and Edwin S. Mills (1993). "The Causes of Metropolitan Suburbanization," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 7(3), pp Available at

5 333c0050d39564&backcontext=results&config=jstor&dowhat=Acrobat&0.pdf Pendall, Rolf, et al. (2002). "Holding the Line: Urban Containment in the United States," Discussion Paper, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. Available at Wassmer, Robert W. (2002), "Fiscalization of Land Use, Urban Growth Boundaries, and Non- Central Retail Sprawl in the Western United States," Urban Studies, 39 (8), pp Available at referrer=contribution&format=2&page=1. Consequences of Sprawl Downs, Anthony (2002), "Have Housing Prices Risen Faster in Portland than Elsewhere?" Housing Policy Debate, 13(1), pp Available at Downs, Anthony (1999), "Some Realities about Sprawl and Urban Decline," Housing Policy Debate, 10(4), pp Available at Glaeser, Edward L. and Mathew E. Kahn (2003), "Sprawl and Urban Growth," NBER Working Paper 9733, Cambridge, MA. Available at Kahn, Mathew E. (2001), "Does Sprawl Reduce the Black/White Housing Consumption Gap?" Housing Policy Debate, 12(1), pp Available at Peiser, Richard B. (1989), "Density and Urban Sprawl," Land Economics, 65(3), pp Available at Sierra Club (2000), "Sprawl Costs Us All," Washington, D.C. Available at Data Descriptions: 1990 Description of U.S. designated "urbanized area": Technical Documentation of STF3 Data File: Retrieval of STF3 Data:

6 1990 List of U.S. designated "urbanized area": Description of U.S. designated "urbanized area": Technical Documentation of STF3 Data File: Retrieval of STF3 Data: U&_lang=en&_ts= List of Urbanized Areas and Central Places: Geographic Info: Differences Between 1990 and 2000 Definition of Urbanized Area: Schedule (Preliminary): The following schedule lists the major topics covered and the assigned reading that accompanies them. I reserve the right to make minor changes and additions to the following schedule. DATE CHAPTER/ARTICLE AUTHOR LOCATION Sept. 6 Background How to Write a Thesis (Chapters 1-9) Teitelbaum Required A Pocket Style Manual (pp ) Hacker Required HUD Research Proposal Wassmer Request by "Urban Sprawl: Diagnosis and Remedies" Brueckner "Wrestling Sprawl to the Ground: Defining and Measuring an Elusive Concept" "Critiquing Sprawl's Critiques" Galster, et al. Gordon and Richardson "Divided We Sprawl" Katz "Truly Smart 'Smart Growth'" Mills

7 "Brawl Over So-Called Sprawl" Sowell "Nine Causes of Sprawl" Green "Urban Sprawl" Wasserman "Some Realities About Sprawl and Urban Decline" "Urban Sprawl and the Uneven Development of Metropolitan American" Downs Squires "City Growth: Which Places Grew and Why?" Glaeser and Shapiro and Lang Sept. 13 Literature Review A Pocket Style Manual (pp ) Hacker Required 1990 Description of U.S. designated "urbanized area" 1990 List of U.S. designated "urbanized area" 2000 Description of U.S. designated "urbanized area" 2000 List of Urbanized Areas and Central Places 2000 List of Urbanized Areas and Central Places 2000 Geographic Info "Who Sprawls Most? How Growth Patterns Differ Across the U.S." "Defining Excessive Decentralization in California and Other Western States" "The Causes of Metropolitan Suburbanization" "Beyond Sprawl: New Patterns of Growth to Fit the New California" Fulton et al. Wassmer Mieszkowski and Mills Bank of America "Is Los-Angeles Style Sprawl Desirable/" Ewing "Special Survey on Land Use" PPIC "Sprawl: The Revolt in America's Suburbs" The New Democrat

8 "Gaining But Losing Ground: Population Change in Large Cities and Their Suburbs" "The Urban Turnaround" "Downtown Rebound" Berube Simmons and Lang Sohmer and Lang and Lang and Lang and Lang Sept. 20 Introduction How to Write a Thesis (Chapters 10-12) Teitelbaum Required "The Economics of Urban Sprawl: Theory and Evidence on the Spatial Size of Cities" "Urban Sprawl: Lessons from Urban Economics" "Sprawl and Urban Growth" "Patchwork Cities: Patterns of Urban Population Growth in the 1990s" "Boomburbs: The Emergence of Large, Fast- Growing Suburban Cities" "Suburbs: Pattern of Growth and Decline" "Open Spaces, Bounded Places: Does the American West's Arid Landscape Yield Dense Metropolitan Growth?" "Holding the Line: Urban Containment in the United States" "Fiscalization of Land Use, Urban Growth Boundaries, and Non-Central Retail Sprawl in the Western United States" Brueckner and Fansler Brueckner Glaser and Kahn Berube and Foreman Lang and Simmons Lucy and Phillips Lang Pendall Wassmer and Lang and Lang and Lang Oct. 4 Methodology 1990 Technical Documentation of STF3 Data File 1990 Retrieval of STF3 Data 2000 Technical Documentation of STF3 Data File 2000 Retrieval of STF3 Data

9 Chapter 8 in Introduction to Econometrics, "Regression with Panel Data" Stock and Watson "Urban Sprawl and the Property Tax" Brueckner "Does Sprawl Reduce the Black/White Housing Consumption Gap?" Kahn Copy to be Given Out in Class "Density and Urban Sprawl" Pieser "Sprawl Costs Us All" Sierra Club "Open Spaces, Bounded Places: Does the American West's Arid Landscape Yield Dense Metropolitan Growth?" "Holding the Line: Urban Containment in the United States" "Racial and Ethnic Change in America's Largest Cities" "Melting Pot Suburbs: A Study of Suburban Diversity" "Changing Patterns of Latino Growth in Metropolitan America" Draft of Literature Review Due Lang Pendall Berube Frey Suro and Singer and Lang and Lang and Lang Oct. 18 Methodology "Racial Segregation: Promising News" "Ethnic Diversity Grows, Neighborhood Integration Lags" "City Families and Suburban Singles: An Emerging Household Story" Glaeser and Vigdor Logan and Lang and Lang Frey and Berube and Lang "The Environmental Impacts of Sprawl" Cieslewicz "Sprawl Concentration of Poverty, and Urban Inequality" "Sprawl, Fragmentation, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality" "Transportation, Land Use, and the Impacts of Sprawl on Poor" Final Literature Review Due Jargowsky Powell Helling

10 Draft of Introduction Due Nov. 1 Results "Planning a Sustainable City: The Promise and Performance of Portland's Urban Growth Boundary" Abott "Politics and Regionalism" Orfield Final Introduction Due Draft of Methodology Due Nov. 15 Results "Maryland's 'Smart Growth': Using Incentives to Combat Sprawl Cohen "Equity and the Future Politics of Growth" Hening Final Methodology Due Draft of Results Due Dec.6 Conclusions and Implications Final Results Due Draft of Conclusion Dues Dec. 19 Completed Thesis Due in Graduate Office

11 SUGGESTED FIVE-CHAPTER OUTLINE FOR PPA THESIS Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION What is the question you are investigating? In theory and application, why is this an important question? Relate the topic to the public policy and/or administrative material you have learned in this program. Site general interest publications that raise the importance of this topic. Describe how the rest of your thesis/project will flow. Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW What is already known about this issue? Review a select sample of academic literature, existing reports, and/or policy/administrative history of this issue. Reference the material you have been exposed to in the program. Conclude with a summary of what gaps in our understanding/knowledge of the topic your research will fill. Identify the specific variables involved in your study. Chapter 3: METHODOLOGY What is the method you will use to gather the facts to answer your research question? Include data collection and data analysis methods. Be specific and detailed. Chapter 4: RESULTS Present your findings with an analysis. Save the major findings and conclusions for Chapter 5. Chapter 5: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS Summarize what you have done in each of the previous chapters and then draw conclusions. What does your analysis say? What are the answers you have derived to your research questions? What surprised you? What could you not find? Any suggestions on how to do differently?