- Warren R. Bland -

e-mail: warren.bland@csun.edu

Office: Sierra Hall, Room 130-L
Office phone number: (818) 677-3508

Office Hours	Crs	Class	Course Name	Rm	Day	Time
Tue & Th	321	17724	United States	SH106	TR	1100-1215
10:00am-11:00am	323	14345	Canada	SH108	T	1800-2045
Tue & Wed	330	14347	California	SH108	TR	1400-1520
5:00pm-6:00pm	330	17763	California	SH106	W	1800-2045

Education

• PhD, Indiana University
• MA, Indiana University
• BA, Waterloo Lutheran University

Why Geography?

I have been interested in geography and travel ever since I was an elementary
school student in Canada. I remember clearly my first visit to Chapel Hill, North
Carolina when I was 14 years old. I had talked my father into detouring off the
main highway to visit this charming college town, despite his desperate hurry to
get our family to Florida. I loved Chapel Hill then and I still do today albeit
from a somewhat more geographically sophisticated perspective. My fascination
with geography reflects my interest in "real world" problems and with the
discipline's potential to comprehend them in their totality, and to offer humane
and ecologically defensible solutions to them. I also appreciate geography for
its enrichment of life by fostering a clearer appreciation of diverse landscapes
and cultures at home and abroad.

Teaching and Research

My teaching and research interests are varied and eclectic. I was trained as a
historical economic geographer at Indiana University, so my interest in economic
geography, industrial location and transportation is not surprising. My concerns
about land use and environmental problems reflect my early experience and
studies in Canada and more recent ones in Southern California. For much of my
career, my regional specialties have been Canada, the United States and California.
I have traveled and done academically related research all over North America and
have developed a strong interest in and knowledge of towns and cities most suitable
as retirement places. My current research program is focused on a book project
titled Retire in Style: 50 Affordable Places Across America

Courses Frequently Taught

Geography 323	Canada	GE Section F2; elective in geography
Geography 330	California	GE Section D; core course in major
Geography 340	Economic Geography	Core course in major
Geography 443	Transportation	Elective in geography

Selected Publications

"The Location of Manufacturing In Southern Ontario in 1881,"Ontario Geography,
Number 8, 1974, pages 8-39.

"Urban Transportation Planning in California: An Evaluation, "The Professional
Geographer, Vol. 30, May, 1978, pages 156-161.

"Spatiotemporal Variations in Photochemical Smog Concentrations in Los Angeles
County, "The California Geographer, Vol. 22, 1980, pages 28-52 (with Gong-Yuh Lin).

"Inadequate Airport Capacity. A Developing Transportation Crisis in the Greater
Los Angeles Region, "The California Geographer, Vol. 27, 1987, pages 97-106.

Retire in Style: 50 Affordable Places Across America, Next Decade, Inc.
(Forthcoming in fall, 2001). This book's accurate and easily understood information
on 50 exceptional retirement places will be of great practical value to readers
searching for a highly livable and sophisticated yet affordable place in which to
spend their retirement years.