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Samuel Staley is director of urban and land use policy at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets. Staley is co-author, with Reason's Ted Balaker, of the book The Road More Traveled: Why the Congestion Crisis Matters More Than You Think and What We Can Do About It (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters, says, "Balaker and Staley clearly debunk the myth that there is nothing we can do about congestion." Staley's previous book, Smarter Growth: Market-based Strategies for Land-use Planning in the 21st Century (Greenwood Press, 2001), was called the "most thorough challenge yet to regional land-use plans" by Planning magazine. Staley is the author of two other books: Drug Policy and the Decline of American Cities (Transaction Publishers, 1992) and Planning Rules and Urban Economic Performance: The Case of Hong Kong (Chinese University Press, 1994). Staley's approach to urban development and policy blends more than 20 years of experience as an economic development consultant, academic researcher, urban policy analyst, and community leader. Governing and Planning magazines have identified him as one of the nation's foremost critics of conventional smart growth and a leader in developing practical, market-oriented alternatives. His professional articles have appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Journal of the American Planning Association, Capital University Law Review, Urban Land, Planning magazine, and many others. He is the co-editor, with SUNY-Purchase College economist Sanford Ikeda, of a symposium on "urban interventionism" published by the Review of Austrian Economics (June 2004). Staley is a former chair his local planning board in his hometown of Bellbrook, Ohio. He is also a former member of its Board of Zoning Appeals and Property Review Commission, and a former chair of its Charter Review Commission. He is currently a trustee of The Miami Valley School, an independent, K-12, college preparatory school in Dayton, Ohio. Staley received his B.A. in Economics and Public Policy from Colby College, M.S. in Social and Applied Economics from Wright State University, and Ph.D. in Public Administration, with concentrations in urban planning and public finance from Ohio State University. | 