URBAN PLANNING ACTION PLAN TO ADDRESS ANTI-BLACKNESS AND RACISM

Urban planning has often been complicit in anti-Blackness and racism, so the UCLA Department of Urban Planning is undertaking some long-overdue reforms and initiatives to address these grave assaults on equity, inclusion, and human dignity.  Please click here to see our action plan, based on proposals from the student-faculty Ad Hoc Racial Justice Working Group, as developed through discussion with faculty and staff.  Our plan focuses on:

  1. Increase department accountability to racial justice goals
  2. Review Urban Planning curriculum and strengthen racial justice content
  3. Improve departmental and classroom climate for racial justice
  4. Bolster admissions and improve funding for students who are Black, Indigenous or people of color

 The Urban Planning Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Fund established to support student fellowships and assistantships for Master of Urban and Regional Planning and Ph.D. students, supporting students who are pursuing racial justice, and helping to diversify the student body and the field of planning. The priority for financial assistance will be assisting students from underrepresented minorities. Please consider making a donation to the fund.

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If you prefer to send your donation by mail or make your donation via phone, please contact Laura Scarano at lscarano@luskin.ucla.edu or (908) 642-4104.

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The UCLA Department of Urban Planning is at the intersection of unique academic, regional, geographic and professional resources that create a learning environment unlike any other. Los Angeles, one of the most culturally diverse and exciting urban settings in the world, serves as a unique laboratory for faculty and students to study and solve urban issues and problems. The world-class faculty in the department — nationally and internationally recognized scholars and leaders in community development, environmental planning, housing, land development, regional and international development, transportation, and urban design — prepare master’s and doctoral degree students to address the social, economic and spatial relationships that shape society.

For 50 years, UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning has been a leading center of innovation and action. We are consistently ranked among the nation’s top planning programs.  We study urgent and topical issues at multiple scales and using interdisciplinary approaches — from local community development in Southern California to global environmental degradation.

Who We Are

Learn more about
Urban Planning Doctoral Students

Nolan Gray

THIRD YEAR PHD STUDENT

Published author

Click here to learn more about Nolan’s book against zoning practices.

Learn more about
Urban Planning Alumni

Jacqueline Waggoner

Jacqueline Waggoner

ALUMNA (MA UP ’96)

President at Solutions Division, for Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.

Click here to learn more about Jacqueline’s background and career.

Learn more about
Urban Planning Faculty

Ananya Roy

FACULTY

Founding Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy

Click here to learn more about the $1.5 million grant that the Institute on Inequality and Democracy secured for their social justice mission.

Academic Programs

MASTER OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

A two-year professional-degree program focused on the role of cities and urban space located in one of the world’s truly global cities — Los Angeles.

CONCURRENT DEGREE PROGRAMS

Dual-degree programs with the following other graduate programs on the UCLA campus:  architecture, business, Latin American Studies, law and public health.

Ph.D. DEGREE

A four-year academic program in which students develop the research skills and experience to produce influential scholarship and secure jobs at leading research institutions.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

The UCLA Luskin Undergraduate Program offers a Bachelors of Arts in Public Affairs and minor programs in Public Affairs, Gerontology, and Urban and Regional Studies.

CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS

Specializations that provide graduate students with additional expertise in the following areas:  Design and Development, Food Studies, Global Public Affairs, Sustainability, Urban Humanities and Writing.

VISITOR PROGRAMS

The Department of Urban Planning welcomes applications to be a Visiting Scholar, a Visiting Graduate Researcher, or a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Luskin School of Public Affairs.

News

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Professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris began her tenure as interim dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs on Jan. 1, 2023. Photo by Les Dunseith

‘I Love the School’ As interim dean at UCLA Luskin, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is giving back to a university that has been ‘extremely good to me’ for 33 years

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As interim dean at UCLA Luskin, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is giving back to a university that has been ‘extremely good to me’ for 33 years.

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Segura to Step Down as Dean, Remain on Faculty His six years leading the Luskin School has been marked by a deep commitment to equity, diversity and academic excellence

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His six years leading the Luskin School has been marked by a deep commitment to equity, diversity and academic excellence

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Contact

Department of Urban Planning
Luskin School of Public Affairs
University of California Los Angeles
3250 Public Affairs Building
Box 951656
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
Phone: (310) 825-4025
Fax: (310) 206-5566
upinfo@luskin.ucla.edu

Chris Tilly
Department Chair
tilly@ucla.edu
(310) 206-7150

Robin McCallum
Manager
robin@luskin.ucla.edu
(310) 206-7150

Sean Campbell
Assoc Dir, Admissions and Recruitment
sean@luskin.ucla.edu
(310) 825-8957

Amy Tinoco
Academic Program Coordinator
atinoco@luskin.ucla.edu
(310) 825-2892

Danielle Maris Lacob
Graduate Advisor
danielle@luskin.ucla.edu
(310) 825-7331

Ervin Huang
Student Affairs Officer
ervin@luskin.ucla.edu
(310) 825-5581

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