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Informal City Speaker Series – Tending to Life and Plants in Los Angeles: Latino Immigrant Domestic Workers and Gardeners

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her primary research has focused on gender and migration, informal sector work, and religion and the immigrant rights social movement. Most of these studies focus on Mexican and Central American immigrant communities, but she has also researched Muslim American […]

Informal City Speaker Series – To Regulate or Not: Day Labor, Worker Centers, and Informality

Professor Valenzuela holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning. His research is primarily concerned with the issues faced by minorities and immigrants in the U.S. His work focuses on three key areas, which are interrelated: 1) immigration and labor markets, 2) poverty and inequality, and 3) immigrant settlement patterns […]

California’s Urbanscape: A New Paradigm for Redevelopment for the 21st Century

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 […]

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.

An Evening with 2014-15 UCLA Regents’ Lecturer Janette Sadik-Khan

 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 […]

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 […]