Richard LeGates is a tenured full professor of Urban Studies at San Francisco State University. He received a joint degree in law and city planning from U.C. Berkeley in 1968/69 and is a member of the California bar. Currently he teaches fall semester only and devotes the balance of the year to research, writing, and travel.

Recent projects include a report on state regional planning policy for the California Assembly speaker’s commission on regionalism, developing curriculum materials to teach GIS in the social sciences with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, teaching a summer workshop in GIS for social science faculty under the auspices of U.C. Santa Barbara’s SPACE program and the University Consortium for GIS. These and other projects are more fully described under the research and other activities menu options.

Professor LeGates is the author of Think Globally, Act Regionally (Redlands: ESRI Press, 2005), co-author of The City Reader (London and New York: Routledge 3rd edition 2003; 4th edition planned for 2007), and co-editor of the Routledge urban reader series. These and other publications are described more fully under the publications menu option.

Professor LeGates is a Fulbright senior specialist. In spring, 2007 he will be a visiting scholar at the Geddes Institute in Dundee, Scotland.