Professor of Policy, Planning, and Urban Development
Director, International Initiative
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development
213-821-1037
heikkila@usc.edu
Professor Heikkila is an economist by training and currently has three main areas of research and has published extensively in each of these areas: urban and regional development, urban information systems, and East Asian cities and cultures. Heikkila has taught at USC since 1986. As co-Founder and Executive Secretary of the Pacific Rim Council on Urban Development, Professor Heikkila has been instrumental in developing and maintaining a strong international network of scholars and practitioners who are involved in urban development throughout the Pacific region. In the 2000-01 academic year, he was a visiting professor at Beijing University's Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences where he conducted research on urbanization in China. Professor Heikkila will also spend much of 2007-2008 in China.
Professor Heikkila has numerously presented at conferences and lectures. In 2005 at the USC School of Social Work, he gave a talk Three Questions Regarding Urbanization in China that addressed the interplay between the economic, cultural, geographic and historical dimensions of urban development within the specific context of China, including its transition to a market-driven economy, political decentralization, demographic changes, globalization and technological change.
Education:
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1986
M.A., cum laude, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1979
B.A., Triple major in Mathematics, Economics and Political Science; Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, 1978
Selected Publications:
Heikkila, E. and Yiming Wang (2008). Fujita & Ogawa Revisited: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach; Environment & Planning B, Education and Research (forthcoming).
Heikkila, E. (2008). Why is China Urbanizing? Prepared for China volume of a series on Connecting Cities published in conjunction with the 9th World Congress of Metropolis in Syndey, October 2008 (forthcoming); by invitation.
Heikkila, E. (2008). "A Bird’s-Eye View: Cities in East and Southeast Asia," Global Asia; Fall issue (3.3).
Heikkila, E. (2007). Formal Property Rights and Informality: A Critical Re-assessment; in Housing Policy and Informal Settlements: lessons from national and international experiences, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Brasilia, (forthcoming).
Heikkila, E. (2007). PRCUD Jakarta Report, Pacific Rim Council for Urban Development, Los Angeles (Executive Editor).
Heikkila, E. (2007). "Three Questions Regarding Urbanization in China,"Journal of Planning Education and Research, vol 27(1), 65-81.
Heikkila, E. (2005). Initiating a Sea Change East of Korea, Hwan Dong Hae Review: Far-East Regional Studies, vol. 1(1), 39-47.
Heikkila, E. (2005). PRCUD Jeonbuk Report, Pacific Rim Council for Urban Development, Los Angeles (Executive Editor).
Heikkila, E. and Lingqiang Hu (2006). Adjusting Spatial Entropy Measures for Scale and Resolutions Effects; Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, vol. 33(6), 845-861.
Heikkila, E. (2005). Reinventing Korea, The Journal of East Asian Affairs, vol. 19(1), Spring/Summer, 27-45.
Heikkila, E. (2004). What is the nature of the 21st Century City? Planning Theory and Practice, 5(3), 379-387.
Heikkila, E. (2004). Seoul: Regional realities and global ambitions. Joint US-Korea Academic Studies, 14, Korea Economic Institute,139-157.
Heikkila, E., Shen, T. & Yang, K. (2003). Fuzzy urban sets: Theory and application to Desakota regions in China. Environment and Planning B, 30(2), 239-254.
Heikkila, E. (2002). Review of Robert Laurini, Information Systems for Urban Planning (A hypermedia cooperative approach). Transactions in GIS, 6(2), 213-216.
Heikkila, E. & Pizarro, R. E. (Eds.). (2002). Introduction, in E. J. Heikkila and R. E. Pizarro (Eds.), Southern California and the world. Westport: Praeger Press.
Heikkila, E. & Pizarro, R. E. (Eds.). (2002). Southern California and the world. Westport: Praeger Press.
Heikkila, E., Cowherd, R., & Pizarro, R. E. (2002). Orange County, Java: Hybridity, social dualism, and an imagined West. In E.J. Heikkila and R.E. Pizarro (Eds.), Southern California and the world, edited volume. Westport: Praeger Press.
Heikkila, E., Ti-yan, S. & Kai-zhong, Y. (2002). Fuzzy urban sets: Theory and application to China. Environment and Planning B, 29.
Heikkila, E. (2001). Identity and inequality: Race and space in planning. Planning Theory & Practice, 2(3), 261-276.
Heikkila, E. (2000). Economics of planning. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University: CUPR Press.
Heikkila, E. (2000). The fuzzy logic of accessibility. In D. Janelle and D. Hodge (Eds.), Information, places, and cyberspace issues in accessibility (pp. 91-106). Springer-Verlag.
Heikkila, E. & Mera, K. (2000). Housing as a tool for reviving the crisis-hit economies in Southeast Asia. In K. Mera and B. Renaud (Eds.), Asia's financial crisis and the role of real estate (pp. 243-254). M.E. Sharpe.
Heikkila, E. & Mera, K. (1999). Housing as a means of sustainable economic recovery in Southeast Asia. Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, 11(2), 82-90.
Heikkila, E. & Wirtz, P. (1998). Sustainable development in China: Reconciling modernity with tradition. In A. Noble, F. Costa, A. Dutt & R. Kent (Eds.), Regional Development and Planning in an Era of Change. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
Honors and Awards:
Visiting Senior Fulbright Scholar with Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, 2000-2001