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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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).
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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
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** 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
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in the Journal of Children, Youth and Environments.
The Center for Cities + Schools (CC+S)
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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!)
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is our award-winning educational strategy that engages youth in urban planning and
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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.
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