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About the Authors
Earl M. Starnes
 Earl Starnes is Professor Emeritus of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida. He was educated in the schools of Florida including Winter Haven High School, Florida Southern College, the University of Florida and Florida State University. He earned a bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Florida and a PhD from Florida State University. He practiced architecture and planning for 40 years. Starnes served as a county commissioner in Miami-Dade County in the 1960s, Director of the Division of Mass Transit Operations in the Florida Department of Transportation, and Director of State Planning in the Florida Department of Administration during the early 1970s. In 1975, he moved to the University of Florida and served as Chair of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the College of Architecture's doctoral program before retiring to Cedar Key. For one year, he taught planning at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. He is fellow in both the American Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Certified Planners.
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Richard RuBino
 Richard G. Rubino is Professor Emeritus of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University. He was educated at Southern Illinois University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to Florida State University (where he headed the planning program for a time), he was deputy director with the Institute of State Programming at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, director of the Governor's Planning Office in Vermont; and held management positions with General Planning and Resource Consultants in St. Louis, and the Procter and Gamble Company, Cincinnati. RuBino has held positions with the Florida House of Representatives, and in Australia, with the University of Melbourne, Footscray Institute of Technology, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He has also served as consultant to many state and local governments. He is past chair of the American Planning Association's Division of Intergovernmental Relations, and he chaired the State Planning Committee on State-Metropolitan Coordination for the American Institute of Planners.
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Comments about 'Lessons Learned'
... Lessons Learned is a significant contribution to our understanding of the politics and economics of land and water use planning in Florida. (Bob Graham, U.S. Senator from 1987 to 2005 and Governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987.)
... the authors ... illustrate how the effectiveness of actions has been eroded by a historically prevailing attitude of growth at any cost. (Reuben O’D. Askew, Governor of Florida from 1972 to 1979.)
... This comprehensive chronicle bears witness to the daunting challenges so many planners have labored to overcome. (Charles Pattison, FAICP, President and Executive Director, 1000 Friends of Florida.)
... Lessons Learned? should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand... America's continuing challenge to balance growth... (James Murley, former secretary of the Florida Dept of Community Affairs)
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