UCLA Ziman Center & UCLA Lewis Center Forum 2012 California's redevelopment agencies (RDAs) have long relied on tax increment financing to improve communities and neighborhoods. Governor Jerry Brown's efforts to eliminate RDAs in order to balance the state budget have resulted in legal actions that have left the future of redevelopment efforts uncertain. In light […]
Drawing from architecture, human geography, and urban planning, Michael Rios’ research focuses on the intersection between marginality, urbanism and public space. A theme emerging from this work is “placemaking” as an assemblage of different practices that involves negotiations of belonging, authorship, and power; a means for marginalized communities to produce different imaginations of space, action, […]
Jacob Avery's primary research interests include urban poverty and inequality, social service provision, culture, social interaction, and fieldwork methods. Through an immersed ethnographic account of street life in Atlantic City, NJ, Avery examines how a network of chronically homeless and chemically addicted individuals experience their precarious condition on a daily basis, and how and why […]
Peter M. Ward earned his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Liverpool in 1976. He held senior teaching positions at the Universities of London and Cambridge before moving in 1991 to The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and at the LBJ School of Public […]
After graduating from Yale Law School, Gregg Kettles held two judicial clerkships, first with the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then with the Honorable Irma E. Gonzales, United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Kettles then practiced for six […]
This forum will bring together thought leaders across an array of professions to explore the challenges of private and public managers of land use and transportation systems when faced with changing techonlogy.
The UCLA Department of Urban Planning and The Luskin School of Public Affairs present UCLA Regents' Lecturer Janette Sadik-Khan 5:30 PM Reception 6:30 PM Lecture California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Janette Sadik-Khan is Principal with Bloomberg Associate, and she is a Former Commissioner of New York […]
For more info and to RSVP Reception to follow Check out Jaime Lerner's new book, "Urban Acupuncture": http://islandpress.org/urban-acupuncture Contact:Izabela Chmielewska, global@luskin.ucla.edu Sponsored by: Department of Urban Planning Center for Brazilian Studies at UCLA Healthy Campus Initative Lewis Center http://global.luskin.ucla.edu/
As Los Angeles' continued growth affects the regional and national economy, what role can planners and policymakers play to ensure a smooth road ahead? How can stakeholders at every level—from local neighborhoods to federal agencies—work together?UCLA Luskin and Metro are pleased to welcome U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx to answer these questions and more as […]
Join urban planning alumni, students, and staff for a casual coffee mixer at G&B Coffee.
