Informal City Speaker Series – Place as a Site of World-Making

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, […]

Informal City Speaker Series – America’s Playground: Informal Sociability among Atlantic City’s Street Homeless

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 […]

Informal City Speaker Series – Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles Crystals, Mud, and Space: Street Vending Informality

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 […]

Digital Cities: Smarter Transportation Forum

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.

Urban Acupuncture & Sustainable LA: A Discussion with Jaime Lerner

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/      

An Evening with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx

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 […]

UCLA Urban Planning Coffee Mixer

B&G Coffee 324 S Hill St, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join urban planning alumni, students, and staff for a casual coffee mixer at G&B Coffee.