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Professor Manville Returns to UCLA
It is with great excitement that the UCLA Lewis Center welcomes Mike Manville back to UCLA Luskin as an assistant professor of Urban Planning. Professor Manville received both his MA and PhD in urban planning from UCLA in 2003 and 2009 respectively and afterward served as a post-doctoral researcher with the Lewis Center. Professor Manville…
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A drop in driving, a suburban millennial, and a Lyft Line (DTLA Forum, Part 1)
Can we be confident about the future of public transit, both in Los Angeles and around the nation? On April 27, UCLA’s Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and Institute of Transportation Studies convened professors, policymakers, and administrators to answer this question at the 9th annual UCLA Downtown Los Angeles Forum on Transportation, Land Use, and…
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If you’ve seen one transit agency, you’ve seen one transit agency (DTLA Forum, Part 2)
If the first part of the “Future of Transit” conference was about cutting-edge research on travel trends and behavior, the next was all about hearing from practitioners about what has worked, what hasn’t, and what is ahead for the industry. The second panel of the day featured representatives from three transit agencies with very different…
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Women Making Moves: Gender and the Changing Landscape of Transportation
(More photos below the article and on Google Photos). In March, women’s history month, the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies convened Women Making Moves: Gender and the Changing Nature of Transportation to celebrate the rise of strong women in the transportation field in Los Angeles, and to…
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Urban Goods Movement Lecture Series: Genevieve Giuliano
(see more photos and Dr. Giuliano’s slides below) Dr. Genevieve Giuliano, this year’s Perloff Speaker, gave a lecture titled, “Spatial Dynamics of the Logistics Industry in California Metropolitan Areas.” This lecture was also part of the Urban Goods Movement Lecture Series, organized by the Lewis Center in partnership with the Community Scholars Program and Center, the UCLA Department…
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UCLA Partners with Caltrans to Deliver California Transportation Planning Conference
This week, 200 attendees meet in Downtown Los Angeles to discuss the future of transportation planning in California The last time Caltrans hosted a statewide transportation planning conference, in 2008, transportation in California was very different. Fastforwarding a short seven years later, California is hosting the first cap-and-trade system in the U.S., all of…
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Refocusing Planning: The Mainstreaming of Public Health and Environmental Goals
California is a national and international climate action leader. In 2015, the state further charted its course towards an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The state is pursuing a series of reforms to transportation planning in order to hit that long-term target. However, California is also on the leading edges of impacts…
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Managing Transportation Change
The Monday afternoon panel on Managing Transportation Change brought together a unique group of transportation planning experts. Staying true to the Arrowhead theme, the panelists zeroed in on different elements of change in California’s growing transportation system, including infrastructure, policy, and management. In 2013, Senate Bill 743 forever changed the way California agencies looked at…
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Changes Facing Urban and Regional Planning
What strategies can planners and other urban managers use to envision, communicate, and implement change in cities? Both the general public and individuals within an organization have a tendency to be averse to change and risk. Compensating for risk aversion and uncertainty is often necessary for a single actor to successfully implement change, but what…