Books
1997 Carl Abbott, Sy Adler, and Margery Abbott, Planning a New West:  The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area,Corvallis, OR:  Oregon State University Press.
1994 Carl Abbott, Deborah Howe, and Sy Adler, eds., Planning the Oregon Way, Corvallis, OR:  Oregon State University Press.
Chapters
2004 and Jennifer Dill, “The Evolution of Transportation Planning in the Portland Metropolitan Area.”  In Connie Ozawa, ed., The Portland Edge.  Covelo, CA:  Island Press.
1994 "The Oregon Approach to Integrating Transportation and Land Use Planning."  In Carl Abbott, Deborah Howe, and Sy Adler, eds., Planning the Oregon Way,  Corvallis, OR:  Oregon State University Press. 
1993 "The Evolution of Federal Transit Policy.”  In Martin Melosi, ed., Urban Public Policy:  Historical Modes and Methods, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
1990 and Sheldon Edner, "Governing and Managing Multi-Modal Regional Transit Agencies in a Multicentric Era."  In George M. Guess, ed., Public Policy and Transit System Management, Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press.
   
Articles
2007 Noelle Dobson, Sy Adler, Karen Perl Fox and Lynn Weigand, “Advocating for Active Living on the Rural-Urban Fringe,”  Planning Magazine, Volume 73, Number 2:  A-5.
2004 Deborah Howe, Carl Abbott, and Sy Adler, “What's on the Horizon for Oregon Planners?” Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 70, Number 4:  391-397.
2004 Mark Bello and Sy Adler, “Banning the ‘Snout House’:  The Politics of Design in Portland, Oregon.”  Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Volume 21, Number 3:  193-208.
2003 Carl Abbott, Sy Adler, Deborah Howe, “A Quiet Counterrevolution in Land Use Regulation:  The Origins and Impacts of Oregon’s Ballot Measure 7.” Housing Policy Debate, Volume 14, Number 3:  383-425.
2002 J. C. Jo and Sy Adler, “North Korean Planning:  Urban Changes and Regional Balance.”  Cities, Volume 19, Number 3:  205-215.
2002 Jin Cheol Jo and Sy Adler, “Planning in the socialist developing country:  the case of North Korea.”  Habitat International  26:  251-267.
2001 Martha Bianco and Sy Adler, “The Politics of Implementation:  The Corporatist Paradigm Applied to the Implementation of Oregon’s Statewide Transportation Planning Rule.” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 21, Number 1.
1996 Matthew Slavin and Sy Adler, “Legislative Constraints on Gubernatorial State Industrial Policy:  Evidence from Oregon’s Regional Strategies Program.”  Economic Development Quarterly,  Volume 10, Number 3.
1993 "The Evolution of Federal Transit Policy."  Journal of Policy History, Volume 5, Number 1.
(Reprinted in Martin Melosi, ed., Urban Public Policy:  Historical Modes and Methods, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.)
1992 and Sheldon Edner, "Challenges Confronting Metropolitan Portland's Transportation Decision System."  Transportation Research Record, Number 1364.
1992 and Johanna Brenner, "Gender and Space:  Lesbians and Gay Men in the City."  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 16, Number 1.
1991 "The Transformation of the Pacific Electric Railway:  Bradford Snell, Roger Rabbit, and the Politics of Transportation in Los Angeles."  Urban Affairs Quarterly, Volume 27, Number 1.
1990 "Environmental Movement Politics, Mandates to Plan, and Professional Planners:  The Dialectics of Discretion in Planning Practice."  Journal of Architectural and Planning Research,  Volume 7, Number 4.
1990 Sharon Baggett and Sy Adler, "Regulating the Residential Care Industry:  Historical Precedents and Current Dilemmas."  Journal of Aging and Social Policy, Volume 2, Number 1.
1990 and Gerald Blake, "The Effects of a Formal Citizen Participation Program on Involvement in the Planning Process:  A Case Study of Portland, Oregon."  State and Local Government Review, Volume 22, Number 1.
1989 Carl Abbott and Sy Adler, "History in Planning Analysis." Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 55, Number 4.
1988 "Infrastructure Politics:  The Dynamics of Crossing San Francisco Bay."  The Public Historian, Volume 10, Number 4.
1988 "A Comparative Analysis of Rail Transit Politics, Policy and Planning in Canada and the United States."  The Logistics and Transportation Review, Volume 24, Number 3.
1988 and Sheldon Edner, "Technological Change in Urban Transport Organizations."  Public Productivity Review, Volume 12, Number 2.
1988 “Why BART but no ‘LART’?  The Political Economy of Rail Rapid Transit Planning in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Metropolitan Areas, 1945-1957.”  Planning Perspectives, Volume 2, Number 2.
1987 “The New Information Technology and the Structure of Planning Practice.”  Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 6, Number 2.
1986 “The Dynamics of Transit Innovation in Los Angeles.”  Environment and Planning D:  Society and Space, Volume 4:  321-355.

 

Book Reviews
2007 Review of Zachary Schrag, The Great Society Subway:  A History of the Washington Metro, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.  Journal of American History.  Volume 93, Number 4.
2006 Review of Gregory Crowley, The Politics of Place:  Contentious Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.  Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 26, Number 1.
1998 Review of Greg Hise, Magnetic Los Angeles:  Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.  Pacific Historical Review, Volume 67, Number 4.
1997 Review of Bruce McClendon and Anthony Catanese, eds., Planners on Planning:  Leading Planners Offer Real-Life Lessons on What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why,  Jossey-Bass, 1996.  Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 63, Number 2.
1994 Review of Clifton Hood, 722 Miles:  How the Subways Shaped New York City, Simon and Schuster, 1993.  Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 14, Number 1.
1988 Review of Scott Bottles, Los Angeles and the Automobile:  The Making of the Modern City, University of California Press, 1987.  Environment and Planning D:  Society and Space, Volume 6, Number 2.
Completed Works
2007 and Noelle Dobson, Karen Perl Fox, and Lynn Weigand, “Advocates and Active Living on the Rural-Urban Fringe:  A Case Study of Planning in the Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Area.”  Submitted to Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law for a special issue on active living.
2007 Ellen Shoshkes and Sy Adler, “Planning for Healthy People/Healthy Places: Lessons from mid-20th Century Global Discourse.”  Revisec version submitted to Planning Perspectives.
Research Monographs
2003 and Julie Odell, Assessment of the Community GIS Initiative.  Prepared for Ford Foundation.
2002 and Connie Ozawa, Pleasant Valley Concept Plan:  Project Evaluation.  Prepared for Metro.
1997 and Carl Abbott, Conflict and Cooperation on the     Metropolitan Frontier:  The Politics of Regional          Growth Management in the Pacific Northwest.  Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
1988 Sheldon Edner, Sy Adler and Peter Morris, Challenges Confronting Metropolitan Portland's Transportation Decision-Making Regime.  TRANS/NOW.
1986 Understanding the Dynamics of Innovation in Urban Transit.  United States Department of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration.
1980 The Political Economy of Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1963.  United States Department of Transportation.  Urban Mass Transportation Administration.