Seeking Spatial Justice, by Urban Planning Distinguished Professor Emeritus Edward Soja, has been awarded one of the three Honorable Mentions for the Paul Davidoff prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the academic planning field.
Laura Pryor, a second-year Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) student at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been accepted into the Graduate Evaluation Diversity Internship (GEDI) program of the American Evaluation Association.
Professor Gary Orfield, who holds a primary faculty appointment in Education and a secondary faculty appointment in Urban Planning, was featured in a recent issue of UCLA Today.
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.
