Category: Research Area

The Spring 2013 issue of Access magazine is now available for online viewing or download here. Access reports on research funded by the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC). Access‘s goal is to translate academic research into readable prose that is useful for policymakers and practitioners. Articles in Access are intended to catapult academic research into debates about public policy, and convert…

A team of researchers from UCLA Luskin and UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning has received a grant from the California Air Resources Board to explore the impact of transit-oriented development on low-income communities. At UCLA Luskin, the project will be headed up by Associate Dean and professor of Urban Planning Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Paul Ong,…

In a May lecture at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Edward Goetz, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs discussed his observations and research findings on the aggressive dismantling of public housing seen across the nation since the 1990s. Professor Goetz explored the political climate and public discourse around public…

This past April, Peter Capone-Newton, M.D., of the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Lawrence DeFreitas, Youth and Volunteer Programs Coordinator for Community Services Unlimited participated in a special lunchtime panel discussion on food insecurity in Los Angeles. The panel discussed how food insecurity in Los Angeles plays out in the daily reality of families and the disparities in…

American Planning Association Honors Luskin Center PEV Plan The Los Angeles section of the American Planning Association (APA) has chosen to honor the Luskin Center’s Southern California Plug-in Electric Vehicle Readiness Plan and Atlas with the 2013 Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice. The award is given annually to a planning tool or project that represents a…

On February 7, two “parklets,” or micro urban parks, were officially opened in downtown Los Angeles in a morning ribbon-cutting ceremony on Spring Street; the Lewis Center’s Complete Streets Initiative played a central role in creating these new public spaces. “This parklet is the first in the nation focused on active recreation,” said Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Associate Dean of…

Each year, the Lewis Center supports graduate student research on a wide array of topics relating to community and economic development, the environment, housing, and transportation in California. Our Graduate Research Grant program enables students – individually or in small teams – to conduct fieldwork, obtain data, and produce quality reports that would otherwise not…

Professor Emeritus Martin Wachs, then-Urban Planning student Shira Bergstein, UCLA Urban Planning Ph.D. Alumnus Dan Chatman, and UC Berkeley graduate studentApril Mo recently completed the first phase of a study examining whether the process of environmental reviews and approvals for infrastructure projects has proven to be quicker where Habitat Conservation Plans exist than in comparable cases where they do not. Habitat…

Norman Wong, Manager of the Lewis Center Spatial Analytics Program, is part of an interdisciplinary research team led by the UCLA School of Dentistry to provide expert consultation to the tribal consortium that constitutes the governing body of the Riverside-San Bernardino Counties Indian Health, Inc. Mr. Wong  is assisting in the development and evaluation of a…