Richard Stuart Bolan

Richard S. Bolan has been an urban planner for over 60 years. Graduating from Yale, MIT and NYU, he was a planning practitioner for ten years before joining the faculty at Boston College in 1967. While there he served as Editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Planners. In 1985, he moved to the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. In 1990 he became involved in working in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as they moved from Soviet-style communism to democratic, private economy societies. His scholarly focus has been on planning theory and philosophy. He has two recent books:

(1) Urban Planning's Philosophical Entanglements (Routledge, 2017) and (2) Urban Planning in Planet Earth's Tragedy of the Commons (iUniverse, 2019).