Below is a list of students in the Master of City Planning program for the 2012-13 academic year. To find student contact information, search the UC Berkeley online directory.
| Name | Research Interests/Specializations |
|---|---|
| Allbee, Allison | Developing a set of innovative strategies to support the health, well-being and vitality of children and families in urban communities |
| Andrews, Christopher | Community Revitalization; Healthy Communities; Affordable Housing; Spatial Analytics |
| Aranoff, Miriam | International development - historic cities and cities in conflict |
| Atuesta Ortiz, Maria | Community and Economic Development; Socio-spatial segregation |
| Birnbaum, Hannah | Community development and revitalization; affordable and public housing; participatory planning; the influence of political and social movements on the built environment |
| Brathwaite, Timothy | Bicycle and pedestrian planning, mass transit, transportation equity, transportation modeling |
| Caldwell, Benjamin | |
| Carnarius, Kristen | Dispelling the short-sightedness tragedy of transportation planning; data visualization and spatial analysis; public transportation systems |
| Cavagnolo, Brian | |
| Cespedes, Sydney | |
| Clark, Hannah | Urban sustainability planning and policy; Green infrastructure and urban ecosystem services |
| Clonts, Kelly | |
| Cox, Frances | |
| Cox, Stefani | Affordable housing, economic empowerment in communities of color and low-income communities, intersection of community development and health, community-based participatory research |
| Cuellar, Jesus | |
| Da Costa, Emilio | |
| Dai, Danielle | Transportation policy and planning; public transportation; transit efficiency |
| Davidson, Alessandra | Urban design and sustainable development |
| De Vuono-Powell, Saneta | Housing, Sustainability and Regional Planning |
| Do, Roza | (Joint MCP/MPH) Community development and youth engagement in planning and advocacy to address social and health inequities; multi-sector collaboration for healthy planning and health in all policies |
| Dreger, Mark | |
| Ehrman, Julia | Participatory Planning, Community Health |
| Elliott, V. Tani | |
| Fine, Sarah | |
| Gaboury, Michael | Affordable Housing; Real Estate Development and Finance; Public Health Disparities |
| Gage, Alea | Public housing, gentrification and displacement, equitable development, community development and self-governance, regional planning |
| Gant, Jenny | Urban and suburban Chinatowns; issues of cultural identity in Chinese - Americans |
| Ghosh, David | |
| Goldman, Alexandra | Community participation & innovation in development |
| Gossmann, Christina | International Development, specifically development through media and technology as planning tools in informal settlements |
| Graves, Edward | Multi-modal transportation and choice; interaction of land use and transportation; transit station and system design; relationship of economic opportunity and health to transportation |
| Griffin, Ashleigh | Transportation Planning and Policy; Land Use; Transportation Safety |
| Guzman, Norma | Ecological Urban Design; Parks and Open Space Planning; Placemaking |
| Han, Benedict | Community Development and Urban Design |
| Harris, Logan | Health equity, food systems, affordable housing, democracy and community development, and economic justice |
| Heumann, Lauren | Relationship between the built environment and health |
| Howard, Daniel | Transportation Planning, Mass Transit, Land Use Planning, Regional Planning, Policy and Ordinance Development |
| Ideta, Marisa | Community Development, Sustainable Food Systems, Environmental Justice, Active Transportation, Temporary Urbanism |
| Ideta, Marisa | |
| Ikezoe, Paolo | Transportation and Urban Design |
| Imboden, Heather | |
| Ivey, Lauren | Examining the impacts of urban design and sustainable planning practices on the prevalence of environmental justice in the urban environment |
| Johnson, Kristen | Planning in Developing Countries, particularly Africa, with a focus on the integration of transportation and HCED, using GIS and neogeography |
| Kaprielian, Gabriel | |
| Kim, Ja Young | Urban Design; Sustainable Environmental Planning and Policy; International Development; Transit-oriented Development |
| Kim, Robin | Urban Design; Metropolitan/Regional Planning; Sustainable Development |
| Konotchick, Anna | (Joint MCP/M.ARCH) |
| Kuo, Jessica | Bikeshare; Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure; Retrofitting Suburbia; Urban Development; Transportation Regulatory Politics |
| Lavine, Ethan | Land use; climate change; sustainable infrastructure; planning history and theory |
| Logan, Warren | Transportation and urban design |
| Loy, Jenny | Community and Economic Development; Public Health |
| Lyon, James | Transportation Policy and Planning, transportation/land use interaction, active transportation, rail, housing development, TOD, bike-oriented development, transportation economics, sustainability |
| Malagon, Jonathan | Urban Sustainability, Equitable Development, Population Health, Environmental Justice |
| Marple-Cantrell, Katherine | Economic development and planning issues in post-conflict cities |
| McGehee, Paul | Urban design and affordable housing access for traditionally disadvantaged communities |
| Miller, Ruth | Strategic regional development, rural public transportation, social justice and community engagement |
| Minaise, Priscilla | |
| Moos, Sarah | Intrigued by the intricate systems present within cities, I am interested in utilizing networks of open spaces to improve urban livability. My research focuses on reforming underutilized spaces within San Francisco as a metamorphosis of vacant land into multi-dimensional landscape corridors functioning at both private and public open space levels. |
| Moylan, Emily | Transportation Planning and Policy, Sustainability |
| Mwanga, Keziah | Affordable Housing Policy and Community Development: Negotiating Planning Standards towards Affordable Habitable Low Income Housing in Developing Countries |
| Nadkarny, Siddharth | |
| Nettles, Marvin | (Joint MCP/JD) You'll find me anywhere Property/Land Use Law and Economic & Community Development intersect |
| Nguyen, Jessica | Active transportation, built environment and health |
| Noyola, Noe | |
| Pearson, Alene | Environmental planning and policy; use of GIS in data analysis and visualization |
| Pincus-Roth, Ezra | |
| Plowman, Jonathan | Form-based codes, zoning simplification, political and policy obstacles to infill development, mixed-use and flexible-use building design, woonerfs, transit privatization |
| Ponce de Leon, Alejandra | Research in Brazil, particularly in Porto Alegre, about the strengths,challenges, and process of their participatory budget system and to see the applicability of it in the U.S, especially in Anaheim, CA |
| Proulx, Frank | (Joint MCP/MS) Transit-Oriented-Development; Active Transportation; Influence of Transportation Policy on Consumer Choices |
| Puccetti, Kimberly | Health equity; community development and economic justice through community participatory processes; integrating health into decision-making |
| Recarte, Carlos | |
| Sadat, Jasmine | Urban Policy and Politics; Community and Economic Development; Socio-spatial segregation |
| Sanchez, Maira | Immigrant informal labor; Use of Public Space; Community Development; Zoning; and Land Use |
| Schabas, Matthew | Transportation and Infrastructure Planning; Electricity Policy; Urbanization; International Development and Sustainability |
| Schmid, Elizabeth | Urban Design, Neighborhood Revitalization, Affordable Housing, Sustainability, and Community Involvement |
| Sen, Arijit | Urban Design; Design of physical infrastructural systems using ecological and sustainable technologies |
| Sholder, Hannah | Housing and Infrastructure, Urban Planning in Post-Conflict Settings, International Development, Social Justice. Basically, my goal as a planner is to use the resources and skills of urban planning as tools in the conflict resolution process, in order to foster a more unified, justice-filled, and equitable world society |
| Stockstrom, Leah | Urban Design, Economic Development, International Development |
| Stoelzle, Alexandra | International Development, Sustainable Design, Economic Development, Sustainable Mixed-Use Real Estate Development |
| Takata-Vasquez, Ariel | |
| Toocheck, Craig | Urban design; transit-oriented development; urban redevelopment; the intersection of urban design and planning, sociology, and public policy; planning in Germany and similar countries |
| Torres, Luis | |
| Torres-Montoya, Mariana | Energy and transportation policy and planning, infrastructure financing, smart cities |
| Trauba, Erica | (Joint MCP/MPH) Healthy Urban Design; Resource Accessibility; Sanitation and Waste Management; International Development; Participatory Planning |
| Varela Varela, Ana | Environmental planning; sustainable infrastructure design; climate change; international development; transboundary issues and strategies |
| Velez, Mar | Desire‐based community empowerment, resistance, socio-spatial cultural production, economic development, civic engagement, resource allocation, education, labor and policy |
| Von Stroh, David | Mass transit (rail and bus), repair of inefficient street networks and land use, SE Asia (especially Bangkok and Yangon), GIS, modeling and forecasting, and transit-oriented development |
| Weinzimmer, David | Transportation planning and economics |
| Weissman, Dana | (Joint MCP/MS) Transportation Planning and Policy |
| Wickland, Timothy | Transportation Policy and Planning; Public Transit, Active Transportation, and Mode Shifting; Transportation and Social Justice; Land Use, Environmental Impacts and Sustainability; Economic Incentives from Transportation Systems and Infrastructure |
| Wise, Ella | Planning / physical and psychological health; Planning / environmental law; Downtown revitalization |
| Zissman, Joseph | Transportation Planning and Regional Design |