urban planning

Research brief: UCLA and UC Irvine researchers examined data on collisions, road hazards and weather from the California Highway Patrol and the popular traffic app.

The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs’ Latin American Cities Initiative brings urban planning students, educators and practitioners into a multinational conversation.

The professor of urban planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs challenges her students and lawmakers to rethink homelessness.

His life and 40-year career at UCLA were marked from the beginning by civic engagement, leadership and giving back.

UCLA’s Luskin Center for History and Policy welcomed community leaders to discuss Proposition 10 as part of the ongoing “Why History Matters” series.

Jon Christensen and Alessandro Rigolon offer three ideas to help ensure community improvements don’t displace the people living there.

Research has implications for health and disease, teamwork and collective behavior.

Donald Shoup: If New York City charged $5.50 a day in just half its available spaces, the total revenue would amount to $3 billion a year available for services.

UCLA colleagues recall his 40 years as a researcher, teacher and mentor, which included serving on the Christopher Commission and advocacy for people of color.

Donald Shoup’s “Parking in the City,” recommends three reforms designed to improve cities, the economy and the environment.

Event at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs served as a way to one day help diversify the ranks of urban planners.

Weinstein was a champion of the more experimental west coast architectural approach and helped make UCLA a leader in architectural technology.

Researchers from the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation create a guide for making parks more user-friendly and sustainable.

Shoup, the distinguished professor of urban planning and internationally renownded guru of parking, received Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

Economist Jerry Nickelsburg advocates long-term planning that accounts for transportation and housing policy, as well as for creating incentives for more mass transit use.

Ethan Elkind writes that not only have parking policies failed to improve mobility, they’ve made housing less affordable and hurt the environment.

Three urban planning professors note that L.A. has more land, and land value, than development, so a small land tax could raise more money for affordable housing.

As these communities rapidly gentrify, spurred in part by extension of the region’s rail network, soaring rents are pushing out the newest generation of immigrants and threatening their businesses.

Minimum parking requirements — rules that are imposed on developers of apartment buildings, among other builders, to provide parking spaces for their tenants — are partly to blame for the crisis in affordable housing in cities like Los Angeles.

Herbie Huff notes that dynamic tolling, which varies toll prices to sync with demand, is a far cheaper option for easing congestion than adding lanes to freeways.

The show marks 10 years of influential research from UCLA’s urban planning and architecture think tank.

Architecture professor Thom Mayne says that adding density around Wilshire Boulevard could accommodate 1 million new people in Los Angeles while promoting sustainability.

New reports show how to add 1.5 million people to the county while preserving the vast majority of the area’s character and staying lower density than Manhattan.

UCLA urban planners create an interactive mapping tool to analyze whether developments near Los Angeles light-rail and subway projects displace people.

Two urban planners at UCLA have taken a close look at the effects of cultural revitalization on two adjoining, but vastly different areas in downtown Los Angeles.