Between 1957 and 1967, he first was a research social scientist in the Mental Health Research Institute at the University of Michigan, focusing on systems theory. At Michigan, Meier and Kenneth Boulding were colleagues, they bounced ideas off each other, and Meier had enormous respect for him. Later he became professor in Michigan's School of Natural Resources, Department of Conservation. Meier moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 1967, and helped establish the new doctoral program in the Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP). For more than 35 years, he was a faculty member in the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City and Regional Planning in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. In retirement, Meier continued teaching, writing, and generating new ideas, despite increasing disabilities. His final book "Ecological Planning, Management and Design" published online in 2003, laid out many of his strategies for creating sustainable communities, particularly for the urban poor in developing countries. It reflected his unquenchable optimism about the future and his belief that good planning and social justice are inseparable. Publications 1956. Science and economic development; new patterns of living. Cambridge, Massachusetts, M. I. T. Press. 1959. Modern science and the human fertility problem. New York, Wiley 1962. A communications theory of urban growth. M.I.T. Press 1962. Croissance urbaine et théorie des communications. Paris, Presses universitaires de France. 1965. Developmental planning. New York, McGraw-Hill. 1967. The influence of resource constraints upon planning for worldwide economic development. Athens, Athens Technological Organization, Athens Center of Ekistics, 1967. 1974. Planning for an urban world: the design of resource-conserving cities. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press. 1978. Risk-taking considered in a community ecology framework. Berkeley : Institute of Urban & Regional Development, University of California. 1978. The new paradigm for planners--:community ecology. Berkeley : Institute of Urban & Regional Development, University of California, 1978. 1981. Energizing urban ecosystems in the Philippines, Manila. Berkeley, Calif. : Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California 1989. Life alongside a revolution : a Hong Kong diary, June 1989. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of Urban & Regional Development, University of California at Berkeley. 2003. Ecological Planning, Management and Design. Online manuscript of his final work at berkeley.edu. References External links IN MEMORIAM Richard Meier 1920-2007. Office of Public Affairs, University of California. Richard L. Meier-Planner and Futurist blog was established by the family of Richard Meier. 1920 births