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Madeline Brozen, manager of the Complete Streets Initiative, joined a lively group of presenters and participants in the Open Streets Summit, held in Los Angeles the weekend of April 6. She  joined Dr. Aaron Hipp of Washington University, the co-author of the report, Open Streets Initiatives: Measuring Success Toolkit and Ed Clancy of CicloSDias, to…

On Tuesday, April 14, Dr. Ann Owens, Assistant Professor in the sociology department at USC, spoke to a full room of 60 about her research on the effects of federal housing policy on the deconcentration of poverty. To establish some context for her research questions and methods, Dr. Owens explained that housing policy has become the…

How is the ubiquity of smart phones, internet connectivity, and real-time information changing transportation? With innovators like Google and start-ups like Lyft entering the transportation arena, what role can government play? On March 20, 2014, planners, policymakers, and thought leaders convened at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles to explore these questions.…

An ongoing research project on teens and travel led by Lewis Center Faculty Fellow Evelyn Blumenberg and Lewis Center Director Brian Taylor was referenced in a recent CBS story about declining automobile usage. Blumenberg, Taylor, and their research team find that young Americans today are traveling much fewer miles than previous generations. In support of…

The Urban Institute recently released a report co-authored by Lewis Center affiliates Evelyn Blumenberg (Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Urban Planning), Michael Smart (Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and former Lewis Center Post-Doctoral Researcher), and Gregory Pierce (Ph.D. candidate in the UCLA Department of Urban Planning). The report, Driving to Opportunity: Understanding the Links among…

Proposed changes by the Los Angeles Metro Board have cut a number of programs, including bus lines that potentially impacts the Bus Riders Union, the elderly, and the lower-income population. These routes, that potentially assist disadvantaged groups, were part of a discussion on KCRW’s local radio show Which Way LA? with Warren Olney. Urban Planning…

UCLA Transportation Policy & Planning Ph.D. student Kelcie Ralph has been selected to participate in the 22nd Annual Eno Leadership Development Conference hosted by the Eno Center for Transportation in Washington, D.C. on June 1-5, 2014. The program allows graduate students pursuing transportation-related degrees the opportunity to participate in an intensive program with prominent transportation executives in government, public, private,…

Recently, Lewis Center Director Brian Taylor was quoted in a Los Angeles Times story on a new Caltrans study showing that Californians are growing less reliant on automobiles while walking, biking, and transit trips are on the rise. Click here for the full story and Professor Taylor’s comments.

Students in Public Policy, Social Welfare and Urban Planning are taking their shows on the road this Spring Break. In pursuit of independently organized projects, groups of students are traveling to Detroit, Mexico City, and Tokyo. The trips are designed to encourage a broader understanding of issues of urbanization, governance, policy, and social service. In Detroit,…

The UCLA Complete Streets Initiative’s work on the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) and Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (Metro) Bicycle Count Data Clearinghouse project received both federal and local attention this week. Locally, the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) is seeking a way to improve how traffic counts are done…