Los Angeles School of Urbanism
In the early 1980s, I took the first tentative steps toward broadening and deepening my understanding of social theory and its relation to public policy and city planning practice. As it turned out, this initiative has occupied a good deal of my attention ever since. I began with the theory of the state and welfare state, which I believed was essential in explaining the tangle of issues that lay behind issues of mental health care and homelessness. I became the founding editor of an academic journal focused on the society/ space interface, at the same time that I was caught up in the rise of the Los Angeles School of Urbanism. For eight years, I led a think tank devoted to understanding Southern California as a critical lens for developing urban theory and public policy. Read more.
Los Angeles School
Books
M. Dear, The Postmodern Urban Condition, Blackwell, 2000. [Chinese language edition, Shanghai Education Publishing House, 2004].
M. Dear (ed.), From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Sage Publications, 2002
G. Leclerc, R. Villa, M. Dear (eds.), Urban Latino Cultures: la vida latina en L.A., Sage Publications, 1999.
M. Dear, E. Schockman, G. Hise (eds.), Rethinking Los Angeles. Sage Publications, 1996.
Dear, A.J. Scott (editors) Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society. Methuen, 1981. [Re-issued, 2018]
Articles
A Reality-based Approach to Ending Homelessness in Los Angeles
G. Blasi, M. Dear et al. 2007.
Ending Homelessness in Los Angeles
J. Wolch, M. Dear et al. (2007). Inter-University Consortium Against Homelessness.
Explaining Homelessness
J. Wolch, M. Dear, A. Akita. Journal of the American Planning Association, 54(4), 1988, 443 453
Understanding and Overcoming the NIMBY Syndrome
M. Dear. Journal of the American Planning Association, 58(3), 1992, 288-300.
Seeing People Differently
M. Dear, S. Gaber, L. Takahashi, R. Wilton. Society & Space, 15, 1997, 455-80.
Psychiatric Patients and the Inner City
M. Dear. Annals, Association of American Geographers, 67(4), 1977, 588 594
For a complete list of articles, refer to the full CV
Theory in Geography + City Planning
Books
R. Wolch, M. Dear (eds.) The Power of Geography: How territory shapes social life. Unwin Hyman, 1989. (Re-issued, 2014.)
Dear, S. Flusty (eds.) The Spaces of Postmodernity: A Reader in Human Geography. Blackwell, 2002.
L. Clark, M. Dear State Apparatus: The Structures & Language of Legitimacy. Allen and Unwin, 1984. (Re-issued, 2020.)
Dear, J.J. Drake, L.G. Reeds (editors) Steel City: Hamilton & Region University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Articles
Michael Dear Discusses Border Wall With CNN’s Fareed Zakaria
February 2017 | CED News
On Smerconish CNN: Does Mexico Wall Make Any Sense?
January 27, 2017 | CNN
KCRW Interview: Trump’s Border Wall
January 31, 2017 | KCRW
On GPS: Building a(nother) wall on the border
January 29, 2017 | CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS
“Il Muro non ferma i traffici”
January 26, 2017 | RSI-Radiotelevisione Svizzera News
“Il Muro non ferma i traffici”
January 26, 2017 | RSI-Radiotelevisione Svizzera News
Trump firma el decreto para levantar el muro en la frontera con México “en meses”
January 26, 2017 | El Mercurio
“La circa solo sirve para el lucimiento político”
November 13, 2016 | EL UNIVERSAL
Muro de Trump ya existe… y está al límite
November 13, 2016 | EL UNIVERSAL
What Would It Take for Donald Trump to Deport 11 Million and Build a Wall?
May 19, 2016 | The New York Times
Wake Up! Tucson: Radio Interview with Michal Dear
November 11, 2015 | KVOI Radio Tucson
Take down the wall: A Q&A with Michael Dear
August 28, 2015 | Oxford University Press
For a complete list of articles, refer to the full CV