Jennifer Wolch
May 2013
California is home to iconic places and canonical landscapes that draw people to the Golden State in search of the American dream. Some are wild or nearly so, like Yosemite, Death Valley, or stretches of the Pacific coast. Others are interspersed with urban settlement, such as oak woodlands of the Sierra foothills, or southern California’s [...]
Suzhou Center Forest Ring-Sky Garden & Sky Terrace Enlarge [+] Whether it’s designing a garden or the groundscape for one of the world’s tallest structures, for John Wong (B.A. Landscape Architecture, 1974) there are three things that characterize the role of landscape architecture: creating a space where people can interact, inspiring sustainable innovation and defining [...]
The Occupy Wall Street movement, and its cousins that have emerged in cities across the country, arrived on the UC Berkeley campus last fall in the form of “Occupy Cal.” Students set up small camping tents outside Sproul Hall in front of Savio Steps, named for the famed free speech activist, Mario Savio. Police, in [...]
Renewing Life and Heritage on the River In 2010, we conceived a plan to craft a collaborative learning experience and to catalyze a new understanding of the Nile as a public resource for the people of Cairo. With a population of over eleven million, Cairo is one of the densest cities in the world, supporting [...]
Pastoral Capitalism Enlarge [+]Site plan of the 1956 General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, an early and influential corporate campus. The essential site plan components of the corporate campus are the central open space surrounded by laboratory buildings circumscribed by peripheral parking and driveways. Corporations built corporate campuses to house middle management research and [...]
From the Dean
April 2011
Every day, there seems to be another news story about the dire state of higher education in California. With state government facing record deficits and the economy still struggling to recover, the University of California has been hard-hit with successive budget cuts. UC Berkeley, despite its status as the system’s flagship campus, has not been [...]
April 2011
Vacant Lot Library Landscape Progress Administration Students in the Department of Landscape and Environmental Planning (LAEP) won two top awards in the American Society of Landscape Architects’ 2010 ASLA Student Awards competition. Cecil Howell won the Award of Excellence in the General Design Category for her project, “Vacant Lot Library.” Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture [...]
C. Greig Crysler
April 2011
The College of Environmental Design recently announced a gift of $1 million from Jon L. Stryker that, combined with a match from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will create a new $2 million endowed CED chair named the Arcus Chair in Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment. The chair is named for the Arcus [...]
April 2011
CED Distinguished Alumni Honored at the Berkeley Circus CED Dean Jennifer Wolch stands with Distinguished Alumni Award-winners Peter Dodge, Therese McMillan, and Topher Delaney. CED honored this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award winners — Topher Delaney, Peter Dodge, and Therese McMillan — at the Oakland Museum of California during the first-annual Berkeley Circus Soirée. Dean Jennifer [...]
April 2010
Professor Ananya Roy Ph.D. ’99, Professor Teresa Caldeira Ph.D. ’92, Oxford University Professor of Economics Paul Collier, and Dean Jennifer Wolch after Collier’s lecture about integrating poor countries into global society. (Photo: Adrianne Koteen) The spring 50th Anniversary celebration shifted its focus to the problems that could not have been foreseen when the College of [...]