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:
- Increase department accountability to racial justice goals
- Review Urban Planning curriculum and strengthen racial justice content
- Improve departmental and classroom climate for racial justice
- 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.
Gifts can also be made with a check payable to The UCLA Foundation, with “EDI Fund for Urban Planning #17520C” in the memo line, and mailed to:
The UCLA Foundation
PO Box 7145
Pasadena, CA 91109
For any other questions about making a gift, please contact Ricardo Quintero at rquintero@luskin.ucla.edu or 310-357-3140.
Who We Are
Nolan Gray
THIRD YEAR PHD STUDENT
Published author
Click here to learn more about Nolan’s book against zoning practices.
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.
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
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.
Dual-degree programs with the following other graduate programs on the UCLA campus: architecture, business, Latin American Studies, law and public health.
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.
The Urban School of Sciences Po (Paris) and the Urban Planning Department at UCLA (Los Angeles), two of the most highly rated programs in urbanism, policies, governance and urban planning in the world, have launched a new dual master’s degree program.
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.
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.
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
Luskin School Reaches Top 10 Among Public Affairs Schools Nationwide Subcategory rankings include seventh in urban policy and ninth in social policy
Subcategory rankings include seventh in urban policy and ninth in social policy.
‘We’re Beginning the Work of Rewriting the Next Chapter of Los Angeles History’ Top officials join scholars and advocates to tackle the region's most pressing problems at the fifth annual UCLA Luskin Summit
Top officials join scholars and advocates to tackle the region’s most pressing problems at the fifth annual UCLA Luskin Summit.
In Memoriam: Margaret I. FitzSimmons, Former UCLA Urban Planning Scholar She was a respected UC geographer and professor emerita at UC Santa Cruz who focused on water and the environment in California
She was a respected UC geographer and professor emerita at UC Santa Cruz who focused on water and the environment in California.
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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
