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  1. Serene hybridity: Understanding emergent city-region wellbeing in urban Japan and beyond

    Article • Regional Science Policy & Practice, July 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  2. The (Biodiversity) Healing of an Academic Growth Machine

    Article • Land, April 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  3. Toward the Meta-Industry City: A Retrofitting Urban Industry Strategy in the U.S. Sunbelt

    Article • Land, February 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  4. Regenerating Urban Areas in Japanese Cities With a Nod to Sustainability

    Article • Urban Planning, February 2026, Cogitatio

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  5. Knowledge Concerning Land Management for Metropolitan Governance in the U.S.A.

    Article • Land, February 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  6. Sustainable Commercial Urbanism in Japan: Hiroshima’s Shopping Anatomy

    Article • Urban Planning, January 2026, Cogitatio

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  7. Socio-Technological System Transitions and Useful NMT Knowledge Creation, Growth, and Diffusion

    Article • World, October 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  8. Strategic Planning for Urban Sustainability

    Article • September 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  9. Strategic Planning for Urban Sustainability

    Article • Land, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  10. When the interstate comes down - downtown Syracuse, New York USA

    Article • Cities & Health, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  11. Walkable and Sustainable City Centre Greenway Planning

    Article • Sustainability, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  12. Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change. Lynne B. Sagalyn (2023).

    Article • Journal of the American Planning Association, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  13. Many urbanisms: Divergent trajectories of global city building by Martin J. Murray

    Article • Journal of Urban Affairs, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  14. Reconsidering Waterfront Regeneration and Cruise Tourism in Hamburg, Germany

    Article • Sustainability, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  15. Making Hidden Sustainable Urban Planning and Landscape Knowledge Visual and Multisensorial

    Article • Land, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  16. Coastal Waterfront Transformations, Fishing Structures, and Sustainable Tourism

    Article • Sustainability, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  17. Urban Revitalization in Small Cities across the Atlantic Ocean

    Article • Sustainability, January 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  18. From Granary to Arts Incubator: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Concept of Food for Thought

    Article • World, January 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  19. Global (Sustainable) Commercial Urbanism and Culture

    Article • Global Journal of Cultural Studies, December 2023, Lifescience Global

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  20. Enthralling Prefigurative Urban and Regional Planning Forward

    Article • Land, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  21. Learning from Arizona’s award-winning planning pedagogy

    Article • Socio-Ecological Practice Research, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  22. Expanding the legal common good via sustainable urban mobility

    Article • Journal of Place Management and Development, April 2023, Emerald

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  23. The greenway movement in the Iberian Peninsula: A tribute

    Article • Landscape Ecology, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  24. Book Reviews

    Article • Town Planning Review, January 2023, Liverpool University Press

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  25. Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place by Setha Low (review)

    Article • Environment Space Place, January 2023, Project Muse

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  26. Qualitative planning philosophy and the governance of urban revitalization

    Article • Urban Governance, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  27. Sustainable urbanism: an evolving field of scholarship and professional practice

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning, May 2022, ICE Publishing

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  28. Building the Country’s Competitive Advantages

    Article • International Journal of Regional and Local History, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  29. Historical and conceptual perspectives on urban regeneration: a prolog to a special issue

    Article • Journal of Place Management and Development, December 2021, Emerald

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  30. Retaining social and cultural sustainability in the Hudson river watershed of New York, USA

    Article • Journal of Place Management and Development, October 2021, Emerald

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  31. From Place-Marketing to Place-Making, Examining Boston’s Case of Global Transformation

    Article • Local Development & Society, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  32. Exciting walk-only precincts in Asia, Europe and North-America

    Article • Cities, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  33. Sustainable urbanism: riverfront greenway planning from tradition to innovation

    Article • Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  34. GIS Buildout Analysis and Urban Planning

    Article • Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies, March 2021, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  35. Reconsidering Industrial Policy in Eastern New York, U.S.A.

    Article • Urban Research & Practice, December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  36. The reinvention of indoor walking for sustainable non-motorized active living in winter cities

    Article • Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  37. Porto Metropolitan Area: A ‘Donut’ City-Region at the Eve of the XXI Century?

    Article • International Journal of Regional and Local History, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  38. The Crisis of Successful Places – Shibuya’s Case

    Article • International Journal of Crisis Communication, June 2020, Green Publishers

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  39. Paolo Soleri and America’s Third Utopia: the sustainable City-Region

    Article • Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  40. A Collaborative Geophilosophical Perspective on Creative Territories: The Massachusetts-New York Case

    Article • Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, January 2020, Aletheia - Associacao Cientifica e Cultural

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  41. Luanda’s Slums: An overview based on poverty and gentrification

    Article • Urban Development Issues, December 2019, Instytut Rozwoju Miast i Regionow

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  42. Redesigning the Downtown of an Expansive Sunbelt City: The Phoenix Case

    Article • Planning Practice and Research, November 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  43. The role of public markets in urban habitability and competitiveness

    Article • Journal of Place Management and Development, November 2019, Emerald

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  44. Progress and 'Acts of God' in the age of climate change virility

    Article • International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, January 2019, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  45. The Music World in Phoenix: Insights from a Cultural Planning Study where the Lights are Darkest and the Sounds Mute!

    Article • Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, December 2018, Aletheia - Associacao Cientifica e Cultural

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  46. Politico-Architectonic Philosophy as Place Building in Albany, New York, U.S.A.

    Article • Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, October 2018, Aletheia - Associacao Cientifica e Cultural

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  47. Tracing the history of Japanese commerce and consumption from the Genki to the Heisei era

    Article • Consumption Markets & Culture, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  48. Fishing, food, and harbor community development in Massachusetts

    Article • Journal of Public Affairs, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  49. Evaluating local workforce development programs in Upstate New York, USA

    Article • Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  50. Sustainable urbanism in temperate-arid climates: Models, challenges and opportunities for the Anthropocene

    Article • Journal of Public Affairs, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  51. The right to walk in cities, a comparative review of Macau, Lisbon and Las Vegas

    Article • International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, July 2017, Emerald

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  52. When markets reset, will we regain? Planning lessons from across the Atlantic Ocean

    Article • Land Use Policy, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  53. Country Marketing and Planning Implications of the European Soccer Championship EURO 2004

    Article • Journal of Urban Technology, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  54. Blending Individual Tenacity with Government’s Responsibility in the Implementation of US Non-motorized Transportation Planning (NMT)

    Article • Planning Practice and Research, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  55. Mediterranean Saltscapes: The need to enhance fragile ecological and cultural resources in Portugal

    Article • ZARCH, December 2016, Universidad de Zaragoza

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  56. Urbanismo comercial em Phoenix: um estudo de quatro formatos comerciais no Arizona

    Article • urbe Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana, October 2016, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  57. Japanese shōtengai, urban obsolescence, and resilience planning

    Article • Town Planning Review, March 2016, Liverpool University Press

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  58. COMÉRCIO, REVITALIZAÇÃO URBANA E SUSTENTABILIDADE: ENSINAMENTOS DA EXPERIÊNCIA JAPONESA

    Article • Finisterra, July 2015, Centro de Estudos Geograficos (IGOT) Universidade de Lisboa

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  59. Sustainable Transportation Planning, A New Academic Specialization in the USA

    Article • International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  60. Downtown resilience: A review of recent (re)developments in Tempe, Arizona

    Article • Cities, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  61. Gaming anyone? A comparative study of recent urban development trends in Las Vegas and Macau

    Article • Cities, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  62. What about Plan Evaluation? Integrating Evaluation in Urban Planning Studio's Pedagogy

    Article • Planning Practice and Research, August 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  63. Evolución histórica de la planeación de ciudades en Portugal

    Article • EURE (Santiago), December 2006, SciELO Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica Y Tecnologica (CONICYT)

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  64. The Phoenix Capitol Mall Studios as Examples of Community Embeddedness

    Article • Open House International, September 2006, Emerald

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  65. City Centre Regeneration in the Context of the 2001 European Capital of Culture in Porto, Portugal

    Article • Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, November 2004, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  66. Measuring the livability of an urban centre: an exploratory study of key performance indicators

    Article • Planning Practice and Research, February 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  67. Sustainable transportation planning on college campuses

    Article • Transport Policy, January 2003, Elsevier

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  68. New Directions for Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning Education in the US

    Article • Planning Practice and Research, February 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  69. Towards more sustainable transportation

    Article • International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, December 2001, Emerald

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  70. BUILDING DREAMS OF MASS-CONSUMPTION ACROSS THE ATLANTIC: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO MEGA MALLS

    Article • Passages, January 2001, Brill

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  71. Developing a transport infrastructure in a context of political change: the example of Macau

    Article • Third World Planning Review, August 2000, Liverpool University Press

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP

  72. City center revitalization in Portugal

    Article • Cities, February 2000, Elsevier

    Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP