The Urban Growth Seminar Series is hosted by the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the USC Center for Sustainable Cities. The topic of this semester's series is "The Future of Sustainable Cities: Planning, Policy and Technology."

More information is available at http://urbangrowth.usc.edu/ or https://www.facebook.com/groups/140369116853/.

Date: March 6th, 2012

Time: 12:15pm to 1:30pm

Location: USC Campus, Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall, Room 101

Speaker: Dr. Judith Innes, Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Title: Network Planning for Regional Sustainability: The Case of Collaborative Regional Initiatives in California

Topic Overview: Planning today involves not just analysis, plan making or outreach. Increasingly planning is taking place almost invisibly through networks linking civic leaders, stakeholders, private sector actors, and public agencies. Indeed networks may offer the only realistic way to do planning in a metropolitan region with hundreds of independent entities with differing agendas and capabilities. This talk will focus on four such networks, Joint Venture Silicon Valley, The Sierra Business Council, San Diego Dialogue, and the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, looking at how each contributed to the sustainability of its region. It will identify approaches to building and maintaining these networks that have been more and less effective and offer some theory about planning through networks.