[SELECTED] International “The Sustainability of Shangri-La,” Public Lecture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, April 1, 2011 Series Lecturer, “The Relationship Between Urban Studies and Urban Planning,” Beijing City University, Beijing, China,…
“Hope, Growth and Opportunity,” San Diego American Planning Association Journal, April 1996. Pp. 1, 5. “City Nicknames: A Quiz,” San Diego American Planning Association Journal, April 1996, Pp. 2, 5.…
Planning Reports and Studies: An Analysis of the “Adult” Land Use on Property Values and Community Image, City of Santee, California, 1986 Social, Economic and Local Political Factors and…
CHAPTER X THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS In the final scene of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Sheltering Sky (1990), Paul Bowles, the author of the original story is seated in a Tangier…
“New Towns in the American 1970’s: Old Dreams and New Realities,” Journal of the American Planning Association (formerly Journal of the American Institute of Planners), Vol. 45, No. 2, April…
FROM THE GOPE WEBSITE James Clapp, un universitaire américain, est tombé amoureux de Nancy Kwan et de Hong Kong quand il vit le film, The World of Suzie Wong, à…
Published in June of 2013, TRANSACTION PRESS. 458 pages, with illustrations of stills and posters from American feature films that chronicle the past century’s growth and life in the Amican…
Everyone who encounters China comes with their own preconceptions; although my generation, which came to its political and geographical consciousness at the time of the Korean War, hearing reports of…
THE ART OF URBANISM Cities and Urban Life in the History of Painting ©2003 James A. Clapp, Ph.D. THE ART OF URBANISM is a recently completed 65,000 word manuscript that…
. Published in the Fall of 2014 by Transaction Press, The City is a significantly revised and expanded second edition of my 1984 survey of reference to the city and…