Eric Avila
Associate Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:eavila@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 825-9106
Office Location:Bunche 7357
Focus of study: The culture of cities; comparative U.S. urban history; 20th-century urbanism; history of Los Angeles; racial identity and racialization; urban Latino/Chicano culture; the uses and meanings of the urban built environment

Evelyn Blumenberg
Associate Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:eblumenb@ucla.edu
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Phone: 310-903-3305
Office Location:Public Affairs 5276
Focus of study: Urban poverty and low-wage labor markets; social policy and planning; social and economic inequality; gender and planning; welfare and work.

Leland Burns
Professor Emeritus
Department of Urban Planning
Email:leeburns@ucla.edu
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Office Location:Public Affairs 5278
Focus of study: The future of housing markets, housing policy (particularly for low-income groups in the Third World), and urban/regional topics. His book, Busy Bodies, deals with the social consequences and stress of ever scarcer time. He is currently working on the economics of preserving building of historical/architectural merit.

Stephen Commins
Lecturer
Department of Urban Planning
Email:scommins@ucla.edu
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Phone: 310-666-0991
Office Location:Public Affairs 5361
Focus of study: History of development planning and theory; regional economic development policies; Non-Governmental Organizations; the World Bank (structural adjustment policies; privatization; information access); regional development banks; linkages between globalization and local community decision making; complex humanitarian emergencies; business policies and environmental systems. Current projects: social impacts of financial crises (Asia; Latin America); youth and young adult issues of social inclusion; NGO/Bank dialogue on privatization; models for alternative global regulatory institutions; grassroots input into global and regional policy making institutions.

Randall Crane
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:crane@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 951-3576
Office Location:Public Affairs 5375
Focus of study: Urban development, environmental policy, housing, and governance. Ongoing projects: basic environmental services in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; land use/travel linkages; and governance reform in decentralizing nations. New projects: environmental indicators; public policies toward sprawl; and housing and poverty in suburbia.

Dana Cuff
Professor
Department of URBAN PLANNING
Email:dcuff@aud.ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 206-5517
Campus Extension: x65517
Office Location:Perloff Hall 1203B
Focus of study: Social production of the built environment, political context for design, social and cultural bases of design, low-income housing and neighborhoods, urban design, community planning, critical urban studies, qualitative methods, the culture and design practice. Awarded Getty Scholarship for 1996-97. Current work: theory and history of property rights related to public housing and urban redevelopment; community design.

Matthew Drennan
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:mattd@ucla.edu
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Phone: 310-825-0587
Office Location:Public Affairs 5345
Focus of study: Urban economics, transformation of metropolitan economies, urban public finance, analysis of economic effects of natural (tsunami) and unnatural (9/11) shocks to regional economies.

Cecilia Estolano
Lecturer
Department of Urban Planning
Email:cvestolano@gmail.com
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Phone: 213-977-1801
Office Location:Public Affairs 2355
Focus of study: Land use and environmental law, redevelopment

Leobardo Estrada
Associate Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:leobard@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 825-6574
Campus Extension: x56574
Focus of study: (Institutional appointment with Chicano Studies). Social planning; survey research; planning for multiple publics; demographic studies, geographic informational systems.

John Friedmann
Professor Emeritus
Department of Urban Planning
Email:jrpf@interchange.ubc.ca
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Phone: (604) 822-0107
Focus of study: International development planning, Planning Theory, Planning Research.

Carol Goldstein
Lecturer
Department of Urban Planning
Email:cgold@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 825-4896
Campus Extension: x54896
Focus of study: Cultural policy, planning, funding, and facility development; public art; cultural bases for coalition-building; infrastructure and resources for artists, cultural workers and arts organizations; equity, access and participation issues; arts administration/management.

Eugene Grigsby
Professor Emeritus
Department of Urban Planning
Email:jgrigsby@ucla.edu
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Focus of study: (Director, Advanced Policy Institute). Public service systems; social impact assessment; planning for multiple publics; housing policies and minority communities; and economic development in low-income neighborhoods. Dr. Grigsby has conducted research and published on urban housing, land use and economic development strategies.

Gilda Haas
Lecturer
Department of Urban Planning
Email:gilda@drpop.org
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Phone: 213-745-9961
Office Location:Public Affairs 5368

Susanna Hecht
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:sbhecht@ucla.edu
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Phone: 310 779-5654
Office Location:Public Affairs 5270
Focus of study: Environmental impact of resource-based and rural development; political economy of tropical rain forest development; women in development; international development studies; international environmental politics; environmental history; alternative agricultural production systems; resources and resistance movements.

Allan Heskin
Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning
Department of Urban Planning
Email:aheskin@ucla.edu
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Focus of study: limited equity housing cooperatives, affordable housing, non-profit community development

Shirley Hune
Professor Emeritus
Department of Urban Planning
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Phone: (xxx) xxx-xxxx
Focus of study: (Associate Dean, Graduate Division, Graduate Programs). International migration, particularly labor migration and immigration policies; human rights and migrant workers; planning for multiple publics, including race, gender, and class perspectives and Asian American communities; multicultural and gender studies; educational policies.

Aseem Inam
Visiting Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:aseem.inam@gmail.com
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Phone: 617-452-2958
Focus of study: Nexus of public policy and private profit in shaping cities such as Las Vegas; urban design prototypes as transformative catalysts; mundane standards as strategic interventions for designing spectacular urban form; designing the prosaic versus designing the exceptional in the city; theory/practice dialectic as generator of design solutions; comedy improvisation as a method of creative collaboration in professional practice; comparative international urbanism.

Hiro Iseki

Department of Urban Planning
Email:hiseki@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 903-3448
Office Location:Public Affairs Building 5383

Marie Kennedy
Visiting Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:mariekennedy@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 206-3708
Office Location:Public Affairs Building 5284
Focus of study: Community development, planning education, participatory action research; particular emphasis on developing racial and cultural awareness in community planning and on participatory planning methodologies for community empowerment; water politics and policies; Latin American social movements.

Jacqueline Leavitt
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:jleavitt@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 825-4380
Campus Extension: x54380
Office Location:Public Affairs 5347
Focus of study: Rethinking housing policy; community development; public housing; multiculturalism; women's needs; alternative planning and design for empowering grassroots groups. Special projects include work with resident leaders in public housing; homelessness; meanings of home.

Robin Liggett
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:rliggett@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 825-6294
Campus Extension: x56294
Office Location:Public Affairs 5282
Focus of study: (Joint appointment with Architecture/Urban Design). Quantitive methods; computer graphics and computer applications in architecture, urban design and urban planning; development of interactive computer software for aid to design and decision making with special emphasis on facility layout;

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:sideris@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 206-9679
Campus Extension: x69679
Office Location:Public Affairs 5363
Focus of study: The public environment of the city, its physical representation, aesthetics, social meaning, and impact on the urban resident; physical planning and urban design for different cultures. Current projects: the privatization of public open space; the implications of socio-cultural and economic differences for the design and configuration of public space; development of land use policies and design guidelines for commercial corridors; transit-based communities in Los Angeles and their effect on urbanization and community rebuilding; issues of safety/security in inner city areas, and bus stop crime.

Vinit Mukhija
Associate Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:vmukhija@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 794-4478
Campus Extension: x44478
Focus of study: Housing and the Built Environment, Planning Institutions and Governance, Urban Development and Physical Planning, Urban Redevelopment, Collective Action and Property Rights, and Comparative Policy and Planning.

Paul Ong
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:pmong@ucla.edu
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Phone: 310 614-2458
Office Location:Public Affairs 5287
Focus of study: Institutional appointment with Asian-American Studies. Race, ethnicity and environmentalism; social inequality; urban labor markets; immigrants in the urban economy; welfare and work; geographic information systems and transportation planning.

Gary Orfield
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:orfield@gseis.ucla.edu
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Phone: 310-267-4877
Office Location:Moore Hall 2023
Focus of study: Educational policy as it relates to the challenges of urban schools; civil rights; urban policy and minority opportunity. Co-director and Founder, The Civil Rights Project, the nation's leading research center on issues of civil rights and racial inequality.

Stephanie Pincetl

Department of Urban Planning
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Neal Richman
Lecturer
Department of Urban Planning
Email:nrichman@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 825-0577
Campus Extension: x50577
Office Location:Public Affairs 5369
Focus of study: Director, UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge; Planning education and professional practice, planning ethics, real estate development and finance, comparative research in housing policy, non-profit development and management including community development corporations, cooperatives, and popular education programs. Community development and the new technologies. Methodological interests: qualitative studies, cross-national research in planning and development.

Robert Rodino, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:rodino@spa.ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 459-9474
Office Location:SPA 3343C
Focus of study: Urban development, revitalization, economic development

Donald Shoup
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:shoup@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 825-5705
Campus Extension: x55705
Office Location:Public Affairs 5263
Focus of study: Public finance, urban economics, transportation and land use. His recent research has centered on parking as a key link between transportation and land use. His research on employer-paid parking led to California and Federal legislation to encourage cashing out employer-paid parking. His research in public finance led to California's deferred assessment legislation that enables cities to finance public infrastructure investments in older neighborhoods. His book on The High Cost of Free Parking was published by the American Planning Association in 2005.

Edward Soja
Distinguished Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:esoja@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 825-4335
Campus Extension: x54335
Office Location:Public Affairs 5387
Focus of study: Critical urban and regional studies; interpretations of urban restructuring in Los Angeles; comparative studies of regional restructuring in industrial societies; and spatiality and planning theory.

Michael Storper
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:storper@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 825-2718
Campus Extension: x52718
Office Location:Public Affairs 5288
Focus of study: The relationship between trade patterns and location patterns (is international exchange of ideas and information a substitute for relocation of production and trade? What are the impacts of this on labor markets, inequality and living standards?) Regional development in the Brazilian Northeast. Evaluation of regional policy research for Directorate General XII of the European Union.

Lois Takahashi
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:takahash@spa.ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 429-8641
Office Location:PAB 5377
Focus of study: Social service delivery focusing on HIV/AIDS and homelessness; NIMBY/community opposition toward human service facilities; social capital and health; social capital and environmental management in Southeast Asian cities.

Brian D. Taylor, AICP
Professor and Chair
Department of Urban Planning
Email:btaylor@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 903-3228
Office Location:Public Affairs 5383
Focus of study: Director, Institute of Transportation Studies; Transportation policy, planning and finance. The politics of transportation finance including the history of freeway finance and the linking of subsidies to public transit performance. The role of equity in the finance of transportation systems. The relationships between transportation and urban form, including the effects of suburbanization on employment access and the evolving commuting patterns of women, minorities, and low-income workers. Planning for special populations, including public transit use by the poor and planning transportation services for the disabled.

Chris Tilly
Professor, Director IRLE
Department of Urban Planning
Email:tilly@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 267-4738
Office Location:Public Affairs 5358
Focus of study: Work and labor markets, poverty and inequality, community and regional development, social movements. His research focuses on the US and Mexico, with some broader comparative work. Also Director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.

Abel Valenzuela
Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:abel@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 825-9156
Campus Extension: x59156
Office Location:Public Affairs 4355E
Focus of study: International migration; immigrants in the urban economy; causes and consequences of urban proverty; welfare reform; social policy; race, ethnicity and social inequality.

Rui Wang
Assistant Professor
Department of Urban Planning
Email:ruiwang@ucla.edu
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Phone: (310) 367-3738
Office Location:Public Affairs 5355
Focus of study: Environmental policy; transportation policy; urban economics; Chinese urbanization.

Walker Wells

Department of Urban Planning
Email:wwells@globalgreen.org
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Phone: (xxx) xxx-xxxx

Goetz Wolff
Lecturer
Department of Urban Planning
Email:gwolff@ucla.edu
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Phone: 323-369-0900
Office Location:Public Affairs Bldg 5265
Focus of study: Regional economic development with a focus on industrial restructuring and labor market dynamics. Emphasis on southern California economy in the context of regional/global integration, particularly with Latin America/Asia. Policy-oriented industrial, spatial, and labor analysis directed towards implementation. Industry cluster/sectoral analysis research methods. Strategies for reducing inequality and increasing popular participation as an integral part of economic development.