Terry Moore is a Senior Fellow at CPS. He was a founding principal of ECONorthwest, a consulting firm in planning and economics based in Portland. He was a Fulbright Scholar on urban planning in Peru in 1986-1987, selected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners in 2001, an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon and Portland State University, and a visiting scholar at the National Center for Smart Growth in 2009-10. He has consulted and presented on planning issues in Central and South America, Europe, New Zealand, China, and Africa.
In addition to contract research for public and private clients, Terry is a contributor to the professional planning literature. His articles on growth management, urban growth boundaries, project management, planning theory, and the land use / transportation connection have appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Land Use Policy, Urban Land, the Journal of Urban Planning and Development, and the Journal of the American Institute of Planners. He has contributed chapters to three books published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: Land Market Monitoring (2001), Engaging the Future (2007), and Planning Support Systems (2008). He was principal author for three books published by the American Planning Association Press: Economic Development Toolbox (2006), a second edition of The Transportation/Land Use Connection (2007), and Zoning as a Barrier to Multifamily Housing Development (2007). He co-authored the chapter on “Smart Growth” for the ICMA Greenbook on Local Planning, and a chapter on fiscal impacts for the Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning (2011).
Terry’s strength in regional planning projects and evaluations is his multidisciplinary background (degrees in engineering planning, and public administration) and 35 years of practical experience at the intersection of technical analysis and politics. His work has focuses on integrated regional planning for land use, transportation, and economic development; the economic evaluation of growth management policies; market analysis for private development; strategic planning; and public decisionmaking administration. Much of his applied work has been on scenario planning: for planning organizations in Portland, Seattle, Boise, Reno, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Washington D.C.