Title Region Aroused Author Frank W. Osgood Synopsis Region Aroused focuses on practical solutions to congestion, inadequate housing, poor education, and mounting health and environmental problems in Los Angeles. The author based this fictionalized account on his own behind-the-scenes participation in political struggles among the region's leaders. Filled with passion for making the region more livable, the story plays out from the state legislature to citizen forums in individual cities, neighborhoods, and sub-regions. It grippingly portrays the forces of political intrigue, romance, betrayal, honor, and integrity that infuse public actions. In the 1999-2002 regional planning process recounted, the main characters rise above their political, professional, and personal tribulations to create a better Region Aroused. The major elements and 12 objectives of the Regional Planning process covered in Region Aroused can and need to be applied to the U.S.'s 60-plus largest metropolitan regions to resolve problems increasingly being faced nationally. Biography Deeply involved in City and Regional Planning nationally for over 40 years, Frank Osgood, the author, began following the regional agency, Southern California Association of Governments, concerned with its effectiveness. He became vice chair and chair of the Regional Advisory Council, approved by the regional group to critique the plan developed. The book, Region Aroused, grew out of involvement in over 200 meetings and concerns with what was taking place. It was edited by a number of people involved. Osgood's background includes undergraduate and Master's planning degrees from Michigan State University and Georgia Tech. Public planning positions in Mobile, Alabama; Lansing, Michigan; and Tulsa, Oklahoma followed. He taught urban planning for over five years and wrote a book on Urban Renewal while at Iowa State University. In addition, he was a planning and economic development consultant with several national consultants out of Washington, D.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, and San Francisco, California. He also operated his own firm, Osgood Urban Research in Tulsa, Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles, including many urban development studies throughout the Los Angeles region over the 1980-1995 period.

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