City Manager Publications

Writings, Speeches, and Interviews

• "Time to get real," presentation to the California Air Resources Board on a Partnership with Local Government on Climate Change Action
• "Who Takes Ownership of the City?" Race, Poverty and the Environment, June 2008
• Ventura City Manager Rick Cole Surveys Green Clout of Local Government to Transform 'The Way We Live'
• Smart Growth: The Opportunity for Managers to Lead, Public Management Magazine Cover Story
• Thinking Differently: Rick Cole Speaks at Urban Land Institute's Place Making Conference
• Dust Up: LA Times Debate on Climate Change and Land Use Policy
• Redwood City Forum: Making Great Places, Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
• California dreamin' 2020: We won't hit our greenhouse gas goals without curbing our car culture, Rick Cole, Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2007
• Text of Public Officials of the Year Acceptance Speech, Rick Cole, Washington D.C. November 15, 2006
• Video of Public Officials of the Year Acceptance Speech
  Windows Media | Real Player
  see the rest of the ceremony at Governing's
  Archived Video Webcast
• "Urban Outfitter - Helping cities thrive, not just survive", Governing Magazine, November 2006
• "Magazine honors a Ventura leader", Ventura County Star, October 31, 2006
• "Urban Design and our Civic Lives" by Rick Cole, Terrain Magazine, Summer 1998
• "Ventura city manager says great cities are built from the neighborhood up", The Planning Report, May 2005
• "Public Sector Role In Growth: Lead Or Get Out Of The Way", The Planning Report, September 2001
• "Rick Cole Offers A Realizable Smart Growth Vision", The Planning Report, January 2005