Category: Transportation

Urban planning master’s student Huma Husain got a mention on the blog Curbed for her capstone project involving complete streets in Los Angeles. Husain found that about 11 different local and state agencies have jurisdiction over the design of even just a small cross section of street. Curbed also posted a graphic she made that…

Brian Taylor, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the Lewis Center and a professor of Urban Planning, was featured prominently in aUCLA Today story on what has come to be known as “The Rampture” — major reconstruction of on- and off-ramps at Wilshire Boulevard and the 405 Freeway. Taylor offered a sober assessment of the work’s…

UCLA Lewis center will be hosting a roundtable panel called Stabilizing Neighborhoods: Innovations in Local Housing Markets, which will focus on strategic responses by key actors who seek to alleviate the impacts of battered local housing markets and the underperformance of local economies. Panelists from both the private and public sector will share their experiences working with communities,…

Lewis Center Executive Committee Member J.R. DeShazo and staff researcher Juan Matute’s chapter on the Local Regulation of Climate Change will be available in the Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning, edited by Lewis Center Faculty Fellow Randall Crane and MIT Professor Rachel Weber.  The chapter highlights the challenges to operationalizing global climate action goals at the…

Lewis Center Executive Committee Member J.R. DeShazo and staff researcher Juan Matute’s chapter on the Local Regulation of Climate Change will be available in the Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning, edited by Lewis Center Faculty Fellow Randall Crane and MIT Professor Rachel Weber.  The chapter highlights the challenges to operationalizing global climate action goals at the…

For a summary of THE FUTURE OF CALIFORNIA REDEVELOPMENT DISCUSSION please go here. 

From the NY Times: Program aims to make the streets of San Francisco easier to park on   Excerpt from NY Times Story: “But San Francisco is trying to shorten the hunt with an ambitious experiment that aims to make sure that there is always at least one empty parking spot available on every block that has…

The idea of “complete streets”—that is, streets designed with all users, not just cars, in mind—isn’t a new one, but it hasn’t caught on everywhere yet. On Friday, planners, engineers, advocates, and students convened at the second annual UCLA Complete Streets for California conference at the Kyoto Grand Hotel downtown to renew their excitement in…

We would like to announce that the power point presentation from the 2nd Complete Streets for CA Conference are available. To get all the coverage, please visit here We encourage everyone to share the presentations with colleagues that were not able to attend the event. Please also view our conference highlight video here

Madeline Brozen, the Program Manager for the UCLA Complete Streets Initiative, spoke on Wednesday February 29 on the UCLA Campus.  The event was meant to emphasize the importance of making the UCLA campus more bike friendly.  Such accomplishments are visible in places like UC Davis, which is considered the most bike friendly campus in the…