A new report from the National Research Council examines major policies that could save energy and reduce emissions from the U.S. transportation sector over the next 20 to 50 years.
Documentary filmmaker Larry Adelman opened his remarks on a panel about health inequalities by emphasizing why the subject matters for him personally.
The issue is “not just that the rich on average will live more than six years longer in the United States than the poor,” he said. “Even middle-class white folks like me can expect to die two to three years sooner than the affluent. So this is about all of us, not just about the poor.”
Enrollment for Summer Sessions is up and running on URSA. Students
are encouraged to take advantage of the relaxed summer atmosphere and
opportunity to enroll in the following Urban Planning classes.
Session A -- 6 weeks ( Jun 20 - Jul 29 )
Political ecologist and Urban Planning Professor Susanna Hecht argues that human activity has affected the environment in sometimes positive ways. In an interview in Yale’s Environment 360, she talks about the conservation values of inhabited environments. She says “There has been a recognition that inhabited environments can have major conservation values. If we have lots of people with forests we should be thrilled.
Deadline is 5:00
PM, Friday, June 3, 2011.
The Lewis Center
sponsors an annual student GIS project contest to promote the use of spatial
analysis and geographic techniques in the study of California planning and
policy issues. Three winners will receive stipends in the following amounts:
-1st Place - $500
-2nd Place - (2)
awards, $250 each
Projects should
be submitted on 8.5” x 11” professional style hard-copy format, and should
include:
-A planning or
policy research question relating to the Southern California region.
Throughout the
2010-1011 academic year, the Lewis Center is supporting The Harvey Perloff
Lectures on the Future of Urban, Regional, and Planning Scholarship, organized
by the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA, in honor of planning pioneer and
long-time UCLA Dean Harvey S. Perloff. Department faculty nominated a diverse
array of urban, regional, and planning scholars to be part of this series,
ranging from preeminent senior scholars to young scholars doing cutting-edge
research. From amongst these nominations, a range of preeminent scholars have
By Lauren Appelbaum and Chris Tilly
After nearly two years of recession, the United States economy
entered a period of slow recovery in the third quarter of 2009. However,
despite seven quarters of GDP growth, jobs have just barely started to
recover.
