Billboard Advertising Mission Hills, Guangdong Province, China

Palm Meadows, Bangalore

Old part of Guangzhou, China


Talks and presentations

Metropolitan History Workshop, University of Michigan

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Sustainable Built Environment Seminar on "Building for a Better World," Stanford University

John S. Knight Fellowship Program for Professional Journalists

Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia VIDEO

The University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research

Conference on "The Future Metropolitan Landscape," University of California at Berkeley

The Public Policy Institute of California

Stanford Law School Environmental Law Workshop

The Johns Hopkins University History of Science and Technology Colloquium

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University

Newberry Library Seminar on Technology, Politics, & Culture

Stanford Historical Society NEWS ARTICLE

Commercialization of Knowledge Workshop, Stanford University

Social Science History Institute Seminar, Stanford University

Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology

Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle

Labrador Ventures, Limited Partners Annual Meeting

Technology-Media-Telecommunications Group, Deloitte Consulting

Media commentary

"Building Better 'Burbs," Stanford Report, September 2007

"Dems Aim to Repeat Success in the West," Associated Press, December 2006.

PodTech Weekly: Tech Abroad, from India to Iran, December 9, 2006

"How the North American West is One," Stanford News Service, Fall 2005.

"Schwarzenegger: The Newest Progressive," with Jon Christensen. High Country News, March 2005.

"Terrorists May Alter the Face of Urban America," Public Affairs Report, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley, December 2001.

 

Conferences

ORGANIZER

Direct Democracy in the West: Historical Roots and Political Realities

Starting West: The Region’s Image and Identity in National Media and Culture

On the Edge: Metropolitan Growth and Western Environments

Land Use Planning Then and Now: Learning from History

PRESENTER

Policy History Conference (panel organizer, presenter, chair and comment)

Urban History Association Conference (plenary organizer; chair and comment; presenter)

Organization of American Historians (panel organizer and chair; presenter)

American Historical Association - Pacific Coast Branch (chair and comment)

Social Science History Association (book roundtable subject; panel organizer; presenter)

Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting (presenter)

Society for American City and Regional Planning History (presenter)