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As a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Utah, Department of City and Metropolitan Planning and as an urban theorist, my goal is to stimulate development of complex systems perspectives on global affairs and the roles cities and the urbanization process play in relation to other globally strategic and disruptive trends. As a student of planning theory, my goal is to enable students to work constructively with various forms of reason, power and values. As a student of metropolitan dynamics, I’m interested in sprawl and traffic congestion as by-products of the mutually reinforcing relationship between developing urban land and building urban roadways. In interaction with students and colleagues, he urges a broader, more holistic view of socio-ecological systems and the need to acknowledge the potential service each of us can provide in nurturing the emergence of problem resolutions that respect the integrity of social and ecological relations. As a Quaker, my outward seeking aims at clarifying public policy’s ethical implications. As a founding member of the Quaker Institute for the Future, I’ve participated in visioning aspects of a moral economy.