Hao Ding
/in Urban Planning historic preservation, place identity, Transportation Equity, Transportation Policy, Urban Design PhD /by Melody WangHao Ding is a doctoral student in Urban Planning, focusing on urban design and transportation planning. His research interests include the equity and justice impacts of urban design regulations, the interaction between urban form and transportation, and transportation equity. His most recent works examine the effects of urban design and land use regulations on place identities in the Asian American ethnoburbs in Los Angeles, and the effects of conventional local transportation planning practices on housing production and affordability. He is also a Graduate Student Researcher at the Institute of Transportation studies, and has been involved in several research projects that study the past, present, and future of California’s land use and transportation systems, sexual harassment on public transit, homelessness in transit environments, and public transit during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Miriam Pinski
/in Urban Planning Aging, Gender, Poverty, Transportation Finance, Transportation Policy /by Luskin StaffMiriam is a doctoral student in Urban Planning, concentrating in transportation planning and policy. Her research focuses broadly on travel and the built environment, transportation economics and finance, law enforcement and transportation, and mobility among vulnerable demographic groups including women, older adults, and people with low incomes.
