Thursday Evening, April 8, 2010 5:00 Reception, 6:00 Lecture UCLA Faculty Center, California Room This year’s lecture will inaugurate the UCLA Martin Wachs Student Scholarship Fund as an ongoing tribute to Professor Wachs’s many decades of inspired teaching
The State of California’s transportation system is at a fiscal crossroads. Population and travel continue to grow, but traditional sources of transportation revenues, like the motor fuels tax, have been lagging for years and new revenue sources, like local option sales taxes, have only partially filled the widening gap. Projections show that fuel taxes would […]
20th Annual Lake Arrowhead Symposium focuses on Infrastructure Investment for Sustainable Growth This year marks the 20th anniversary of the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium, a collaborative enterprise that brings researchers, policymakers, senior practitioners, and private sector representatives together each fall to discuss and debate the transportation – land use – environment connection. This year’s symposium […]
Forty-Five Years Later: Perloff’s New Directions in Social Planning Revisited. Teresa L. Córdova, Chair & Associate Professor at The Community and Regional Planning Program, University of New Mexico. Light lunch at 12:00 pm, Lecture from 12:30-2:00 pm -- Free and open to the public. Faculty-nominated speakers ranging from preeminent senior scholars to […]
Jarrett Walker will be coming to UCLA on Thursday to deliver a guest lecture. Jarrett is a consultant living in Sydney, Australia, who does work on transit planning and policy. He has a professional blog at: www.humantransit.org Transit: Freedom through Geometry Much of the public debate about public transit is about technology. Should we […]
Throughout the 2010-1011 academic year, the Department of Urban Planning and the Lewis Center will present the Harvey S. Perloff lectures on The Future of Urban Planning. The lecture series, in honor of planning pioneer and long-time UCLA Dean Harvey S. Perloff, includes a diverse array of urban, regional, and planning scholars reflecting on what […]