POLÈSE, Mario 1943-

PERSONAL:

Born November 7, 1943, in the Netherlands; citizenship, Canadian; son of Julius (a translator) and Kate (a cook; maiden name, Gross) Polèse; married Céline Hallé, July 11, 1971; children: Geneviève, Caroline. Education: City University of New York, B.A., 1965; University of Pennsylvania, M.A., 1967, Ph.D., 1972; postdoctoral study at Université d'Aix-Marseille, 1972-73.

ADDRESSES:

Home—4174 Harvard, Montréal, Québec, Canada H4A 2W7. Office—Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Urbanisation, Université du Québec, 3465 Durocher, Montréal, Québec, Canada H2X 2C6; fax: 514-499-4065. E-mail—mario.polese@inrs-urb.uquebec.ca.

CAREER:

Brome County Rural Development Agency, Brome County, Québec, Canada, assistant manager, 1967; University of Montréal, Montréal, Québec, lecturer at Urban Institute, 1969-70; University of Québec, Montréal, professor and researcher in urbanization at National Institute for Scientific Research-Urbanization, 1970—, director of the institute, 1984-89. University of Toronto, associate of Centre for Urban and Community Studies, 1992—; McGill University, senior adjunct professor, 1995—; guest lecturer at other institutions, including Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico, University of Geneva, Erasmus University, Université de Bourgogne, University of California, Los Angeles, Université Laval, and Université du Quebec à Trois Rivières. Statistics Canada, member of advisory committee on service statistics, 1988—; International Baccalaureat, Geneva, Switzerland, chief examiner for economics, 1989-91; Montréal Inter-University Group, director of urbanization and development, 1989—; Towards Socially Sustainable Cities, international project coordinator, 1995-98; Engineering Institute of the West Indies, co-team leader of Caribbean regional infrastructure study, 1995-96; Partnership in Urban Development, coordinator, 1997—. Québec Department of Immigration, special advisor to deputy minister's office, 1975-76; Office de Planification et de Dévelopement du Québec, special advisor to deputy chief executive officer, 1979-80; Canadian Social Science Federation, member of board of directors, 1980-83; Canadian Department of External Affairs, member of Canadian committee, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1981-87; Québec Department of the Environment, ad hoc commissioner for Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement, 1984; Government of Québec, committee member, Conseil de la science et de la technologie, 1987-88; Federal Economic Development Bureau, special advisor to deputy minister, 1992-93; consultant to auditor general of Canada, Québec Department of Transport, and Major & Martin, Inc.

MEMBER:

Canadian Regional Science Association (president, 1980-81; executive vice president, 1982-88), Association de Science Régionale de Langue Française (vice president, 1981-97).

WRITINGS:

(With B. Bonin) À propos de l'association économique Canada-Québec, École Nationale d'Administration Publique (Québec City, Québec, Canada), 1980.

(Editor, with W. J. Coffey) Still Living Together: Recent Trends and Future Directions in Canadian Regional Development, Institute for Research on Public Policy (Montréal, Québec, Canada), 1987.

(With W. J. Coffey, Bailly, and A. Paelinck) Spatial Econometrics of Services, Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, England), 1992.

Économie urbaine et régionale, Economica (Paris, France), 1994.

(Editor with J. Wolfe) L'urbanisation des pays en dévelopement, Economica (Paris, France), 1995.

(Editor with S. Pérez) Modelos de analysis y de planificacion urbana: estudios sobre la evolucion y tendencias de la ciudad de puebla, Plaza y Valdez (Mexico City, Mexico), 1996.

(Editor with M. Lungo, and contributor) Economía y desarollo urbana en Centramérica, FLACSO (San José, Costa Rica), 1998.

Economía urbana y regional: introducción a la relación entre territorio y desarollo, Libro Universitario Regional (Cartago, Costa Rica), 1998.

(Editor, with R. Stren, and contributor) The Social Sustainability of Cities: Diversity and the Management of Change, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2000.

Contributor to books, including Local Development: The Future of Isolated Cultural Communities and Small Economic Regions, University of St.-Anne Press (Church Point, Nova Scotia, Canada), 1986; The Canadian Economy: A Regional Perspective, edited by D. Savoie, Methuen (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1986; The Canadian Economy: Problems and Policies, edited by G. C. Ruggeri, Gage (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1987; Parting as Friends: The Economic Consequences for Québec, edited by J. McCallum and C. Green, Institut C. D. Howe (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1991; and Community Economic Development: Perspectives on Research and Policy, edited by B. Calaway and J. Hudson, Thomson Educational Publishing (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1994. Contributor to professional journals, including Regional Studies, International Regional Science Review, Environment and Planning, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Canadian Geographer, Environments, Urban History Review, Economic Geography, and Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies. Editor, Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 1982-88; member of editorial board, Annals of Regional Science, 1982-88, Revue d'Économie Régionale et Urbaine, 1982—, Economic Development Quarterly, 1990—, and Région et Dévelopement, 1996—.

SIDELIGHTS:

Mario Polèse told CA: "I am an academic. Thus my writing is basically motivated by the needs of students and the need to disseminate research results to fellow researchers and the community at large."