IURD February 2016 Newsletter

F E A T U R E D

I U R D A N N O U N C E S T H E L A U N C H O F T H E
U R B A N E Q U I T Y C O M M U N I T Y F E L L O W S
P R O G R A M

The IURD Urban Equity Community Fellows Program aims to build a movement of activist scholars working for urban equity in the Bay Area, nationally and around the world. The program connects community leaders to one another as well as students and faculty at UC Berkeley, with the idea that strong networks, mentoring, classroom interactions and university-community action-research partnerships can proactively support urban equity. The program intentionally supports underrepresented students (from undergrads through PHD) and offers them a professional mentor, colloquiums, and other opportunities to link scholarship to practice and prepare for a social justice career. Please visit the IURD website to learn more.

2 0 1 6 U R B A N E Q U I T Y C O M M U N I T Y F E L L O W S:

Devone Boggan, Community Services Director for the City of Richmond

Gloria Bruce, Executive Director at East Bay Housing Organizations

Brett Cook, Artist and Educator

Shasa Curl, Administrative Chief for the City of Richmond

Juliet Ellis, Executive Director for SF Water

Margaretta Lin, Attorney

Fernando Marti, Community Planner, Architect and Artist
Dawn Phillips, Program Co-Director at Causa Justa

Roy Robles, Filmmaker and Artist

Olis Simmons, CEO of Youth UpRising

S P R I N G 2 0 1 6 I U R D L U N C H S P E A K E R
S E R I E S B E G I N S

L U N C H S P E A K E R: I U R D D I R E C T O R J A S O N
C O R B U R N

Wednesday, February 17th 12-1pm 316 Wurster

Habitat III, a global UN conference on the ‘New Urban Agenda’, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are two landmark events with the potential to shape the urban and global development agenda for years to come. Each have set lofty goals, such as ending poverty, improving the lives of the almost 1 billion people living in informal settlements, and promoting sustainable development that both mitigates and helps cities to adapt to climate change. What are some implications of these landmark events for urban planners and those interested in the global practice of equitable, inclusive and healthy cities? This talk will give a brief overview of progress to date on these efforts and discuss implications for research and practice.

U P C O M I N G E V E N T S

G R E E N T . O . D. T A L K: P R O F E S S O R K A N G L I T O N Y W U

Wednesday, February 10th 12-1pm 316 Wurster

I C U H P R E - C O N F E R E N C E W O R K S H O P:
F U T U R E O F H E A L T H Y C I T I E S: P E D A G O G Y A N D
A C T I O N R E S E A R C H

Thursday, March 31st 12-1pm UC Berkeley

The 21st century challenges of urban health range from addressing the health impacts of inequitable burdens of neighborhood-based stressors, climate change and displacement of racial, ethnic and other socially and economically marginalized groups. How might urban health research and pedagogy best respond to these complex challenges? In this pre-conference workshop, academics, practitioners and activists will come together to discuss innovative strategies to link urban health equity research, action and training. Examples of university-based healthy city training from North America, Europe, Latin America and Africa will be featured. Facilitated workshop dialogues will focus on training by/for Global south practitioners, South-South collaborations, and south-north academic and professional exchanges. To learn more about the ICUH Pre-Conference Workshop, please click here.

H E A L T H Y C I T Y P L A N N I N G S H O R T C O U R S E

June 6th-9th, UC Berkeley

The Healthy Cities Planning Short Course offers practitioners, academics and activists an opportunity to learn about innovative strategies to promote more healthy, equitable and sustainable cities in the US and around the world. The intensive course will combine lectures from leading academics and practitioners, workshops and participatory exercises, field visits and case studies of projects, plans and policies used in cities around the world to promote more healthy cities. The course will pay particular attention to methods, practices and evaluation strategies to promote more inclusive, equitable and fair cities, and how healthy equity can act as the guiding principle for healthy cities. To learn more about the Healthy City Planning Short Course, please click here.

R E C E N T N E W S

N E W P U B L I C A T I O N F R O M I U R D A S S O C I A T E
D I R E C T O R M A L O H U T S O N

T H E U R B A N S T R U G G L E F O R E C O N O M I C ,
E N V I R O N M E N T A L , A N D S O C I A L J U S T I C E:
D E E P E N I N G T H E I R R O O T S

IURD Associate Director, Malo Hutson, just completed a book entitled The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice: Deepening Their Roots, which explores how coalitions of residents, community leaders, unions, and others are trying to resist displacement as a result of neighborhood change and transform their communities to sustainable healthy communities (defined as economically strong, environmentally clean, and socially just communities). He did case studies on four major U.S. cities--Boston, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C..

His book is part of Rutledge's Equity, Justice, and the Sustainable City series, which, according to Rutledge, "...[I]ntroduces critical perspectives and new approaches to the practice and theory of urban planning and policy that ask how the world's cities can become ‘greener’ while becoming more fair, equitable and just".

F A L L 2 0 1 5 L U N C H S P E A K E R S E R I E S

The Fall 2015 Lunch Speaker Series has ended, and it was a great success!

This semester's speakers included:

John Taylor, Director and Co-Founder of NGO Kota Kita
Patricia A. Wilson, Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texas, Austin
Liliana de Simone, a Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago and at the Universidad de Diego Portales
Kristin Aarland, a researcher at NOVA

To learn more about the presenters and talks given during the Fall 2015 lunch speaker series, please click here.

R E C E N T B L O G P O S T:

I N T E G R A T I N G P U B L I C A N D P R I V A T E M A S S
T R A N S P O R T A T I O N

By: Ulises Hernandez, Abigail Cochran, and Dan Chatman

The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Governments and transportation authorities face the challenge of accommodating rapidly growing urban transport demand with efficient, safe, affordable and sustainable transport, whether privately or publicly provided. At the “BRT and private transit: Integration in domestic and international contexts” symposium held at UC Berkeley on October 20th, a number of academics, researchers and other experts in the field discussed topics relating to the integration of public and private transport modes in domestic and international contexts. To continue reading, please click here.

S C H O L A R S P O T L I G H T

Steve Yiu

IURD is excited to welcome visiting scholar Steve Yiu, Head of Town Planning at MTR Corporation in Hong Kong. Steve has 20 years of experience in initiating and managing the corporation's property development planning for transit-oriented development, under Hong Kong's unique "rail-plus-property" model for implementing new urban railway lines.

The model is a leading international example of how land value capture can be used to deliver development projects, including some that are large and complex, by world standards. One such example is the 1 million square meter mixed-use complex at Kowloon Station, which features a 118-story building and a LOHAS Park, built above a railway depot, to house some 68,000 people. He also contributes to Hong Kong's overall planning of new development areas and railway extensions.

Steve received his planning education at the University of Liverpool in the UK and is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Hong Kong Institute of Planners. Before joining the MTR Corporation, he worked in the Planning Department of the Hong Kong Government for 11 years. There, he worked as a senior planner, mainly planning new towns.

R E S E A R C H U P D A T E S

Our analysis of school facility spending by California school districts finds that many districts- particularly those serving high-need students- risk grossly underfunded facilities budgets, deteriorating schools, and declining educational outcomes if they are left on their own, without state support for capital needs. Here are our key findings:

THE MAJORITY OF SCHOOLS UNDERSPEND ON FACILITIES

WEALTHY DISTRICTS SPEND MORE ON FACILITIES, ESPECIALLY ON THE CAPITAL SIDE

DISTRICTS SERVING LOW-INCOME STUDENTS DISPROPORTIONATELY DRAW MORE FROM THIER OPERATING BUDGETS TO FUND FACILITIES

When poor facility conditions disproportionately affect students and educators in low-wealth communities, it undermines California's educational equity priorities in the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).

Download the Report

This fall, CC+S launched the Y-PLAN Healthy Cities Institute to engage schools and young people as critical actors in building equitable, healthy, and sustainable cities. Building on over a decade of action research, CC+S is deepening work in targeted cities - Richmond, Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento and NYC while maintaining a robust global digital learning network of Y-PLAN youth, teachers and civic leaders. Last year, over 200 students in the Richmond High Health Academy conducted community action research to generate youth recommendations for the Richmond Climate Action Plan. Read more about Y-PLAN here

** New peer reviewed article/field report published on this exciting work: Engaging Students in Transforming Their Built Environment via Y-PLAN: Lessons from Richmond, California in the Journal of Children, Youth and Environments.

The Center for Cities + Schools (CC+S) was launched in IURD in 2004 to harness the potential of urban planning to close the opportunity gap and improve education. CC+S works to create opportunity-rich places where young people can be successful in and out of school. We conduct policy research, engage youth in urban planning, and cultivate collaboration between city and school leaders to strengthen all communities: Our policy research seeks out practical, proven federal, state, and local solutions for creating opportunity-rich places for young people and families. Y-PLAN (Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now!) is our award-winning educational strategy that engages youth in urban planning and empowers them to create change in their community. Through our PLUS Leadership Initiative, we provide tools and best practices to help cities and schools create a structure for strong, ongoing joint policymaking. We invite you to visit our website and follow us on Twitter.

We invite you to visit our website, follow us on twitter, and like us on facebook to stay in touch, and check out the Terner Blog: No Limits, for a recent piece from our Senior Fellow, Jed Kolko.

A B O U T U S

IURD conducts collaborative, interdisciplinary research and practical work that reveals the dynamics of communities, cities, and regions and informs public policy. IURD focuses on analyzing trends in urbanization, the impacts on populations and places and exploring strategies to make cities and urban areas more equitable and inclusive for all. In the future, IURD will position itself as a global leader in research and policy that aims to answer how 21st century urbanization and cities can be the sites of innovation and opportunity, sustainability and democracy, health and social justice.

To learn more, visit the IURD website! To contact us directly, email iurd@berkeley.edu or call us at (510) 642-4874. Help support our work, and make a donation today!

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