Joel Rast
Associate Professor
Office: 608 Bolton Hall
Phone: (414) 229-2737
e-mail: jrast@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vita: Vita (pdf 95K)
Degrees:
Ph.D., University of Oregon
B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz
Teaching Interests:
Urban Development/Redevelopment since World War II
Urban Politics
Environmental Politics
Intergovernmental Relations
Other Relevant Activities:
Director, Center for Economic Development
Co-Director, Brownfields Research Consortium
Coordinator, Internship Program, Political Science
Selected Publications:
Rast, J. 2009. "Critical Junctures, Long-Term Processes: Urban Redevelopment in Chicago and Milwaukee, 1945-1980." Social Science History 33: 393-426.
Rast, J. 2009. "Regime Building, Institution Building: Urban Renewal Policy in Chicago, 1946-1962." Journal of Urban Affairs 31: 173-194.
Rast, J. 2007. "Annexation Policy in Milwaukee: An Historical Institutionalist Approach." Polity 39: 55-78.
Rast, J. 2006. "Governing the Regimeless City: The Frank Zeidler Administration in Milwaukee, 1948-1960." Urban Affairs Review 42: 81-112.
Rast, J., and Carlson, V. 2006. "When Boeing Landed in Chicago: Lessons for Regional Economic Development." State and Local Government Review 38: 1-11.
Rast, J. 2006. "Environmental Justice and the New Regionalism." Journal of Planning Education and Research 25: 249-263.
Rast, J. 2005. "The Politics of Alternative Economic Development: Revisiting the Stone-Imbroscio Debate." Journal of Urban Affairs 27: 53-69.
Rast, J. 2001. "Manufacturing Industrial Decline: The Politics of Economic Change in Chicago, 1955-1998." Journal of Urban Affairs 23: 175-190.
Rast, J. 1999. Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
Policy Papers and Technical Reports:
Rast, J. 2008. "Out of Service: The Impact of Transit Cuts on Access to Jobs in Metropolitan Milwaukee." University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for Economic Development.
Rast J. 2005. "Curbing Industrial Decline or Thwarting Redevelopment? An Evaluation of Chicago's Clybourn Corridor, Goose Island, and Elston Corridor Planned Manufacturing Districts." University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for Economic Development.
Rast, J. 2004. "Transportation Equity and Access to Jobs in Metropolitan Milwaukee." University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for Economic Development.
Rast, J. 2001. "Back to the Future: (Re)integrating Freight Transportation and Land Use in the Chicago Region." Chicago: Center for Neighborhood Technology.
U.S. Department of Transportation. 2000. Transportation and Environmental Justice: Case Studies. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation (co-authored with the Louis Berger Group under contract with the U.S. Department of Transportation).
Rast, J. 1999. "Building on the Basics: Economic Development Strategies for South Suburban Cook County." Chicago: Center for Neighborhood Technology.