The New California Dream: Regional Solutions for 21st Century Challenges
The Speaker's Commission on Regionalism's Final Report, 1.5 MB [PDF]

California Counts: Population Trends and Profiles
Public Policy Institute of California

• Vol. 1, No. 1: How Many Californians? A Review of Population Projections for the State, 106 K [PDF]
  Compares and analyzes population projections produced by various academic and government sources. Discusses the accuracy of past population projections and assesses differences in the assumptions of various estimates.

• Vol. 1, No. 3: Trends in Family and Household Poverty, 345 K [PDF]
  Examines differences between California's and the nation's poverty rates. Attributes higher rates in California to the growing proportion of households headed by less-educated, often immigrant, adults.

• Vol. 2, No. 2: Graying in the Golden State: Demographic and Economic Trends of Older Californians, 152 K [PDF]
  Looks at the explosive growth that will occur in the retirement-age population over the next 30 years. Describes the factors driving this growth, explores some of the historic social and economic changes of the baby boom generation, and discusses the implications of these changes for federal programs and the State of California.

California Regions Take Action: The Emergence of California's Civic Entrepreneurs, 421 K [PDF]
Introducing the individuals who are helping lead collaborative initiatives that improve quality of life in their regions.

Changing the Order of Things: Six Proposals for Local Finance Reform, 76 K [PDF]
By J. Fred Silva and Paul G. Lewis, Public Policy Institute of California

Commission Recommendations on State-Local Finance
By Fred Silva, Senior Advisor, Public Policy Institute of California

Demographic Futures for California
Poverty among California's immigrant population is on the decline after a 30-year rise.
University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development

An Economist's Perspective on Urban Sprawl
Prepared by Robert W. Wassmer

• Part I: Defining Excessive Urbanization in California and Other Western States
  
  
• Part II: Influences of the "Fiscalization of Land Use" and Urban-Growth Boundaries

Elements of a Framework for Collaborative Regional Decision-Making in California, 40 K [PDF]
By Michael Teitz, J. Fred Silva, and Elisa Barbour, Public Policy Institute of California

A Framework for Collaborative Regional Decision-Making, 50 K [PDF]
Elisa Barbour and Michael Teitz, Public Policy Institute of California

Getting Results and Facing New Challenges: California's Civic Entrepreneur Movement, (CCRL), 482 K [PDF]
Highlighting key themes and activities of the 1998 Summit and ideas for next steps.

Informed Regional Choices, 206 K [PDF]
How California's regional organizations are applying technology-based planning and decision tools.

Linking the New Economy to the Livable Community, (CCRL), 418 K [PDF]
New Urbanism and the Livable Communities Movement share many core principles.

Reactions to San Diego Regional Government Efficiency Commission (RGEC)
San Diego Dialogue Report

Regionalism: Diverse Economies / Similar Needs (Speech), 15 K [PDF]
By John Dean

San Diego Regional Convergence
This report shares the group's observations and suggestions for strengthening governance in the San Diego region.

The State of California's Regions, 2001 (SOCR 2001), 658 K [PDF]
The first annual report about the regional movement in California.

The State-Local Fiscal Relationship in California: A Changing Balance of Power
By J. Fred Silva and Elisa Barbour, Public Policy Institute of California