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Mar 9, 2026
UC Berkeley students share zone zero landscape design ideas with Berkeley residents
Master of Landscape Architecture students presented fire-safe designs to residents of the Berkeley Hills, highlighting key strategies for adapting to new regulations without sacrificing aesthetic appeal.
Mar 6, 2026
Preserving the affordability of lower-cost apartments critical to ensuring housing stability | New research published in JAPA
“The Implications of Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) Sales for Residential Mobility,” a paper published in the Journal of the American Planning Association authored by PhD Candidate Taesoo Song and Professor of City & Regional Planning Carolina Reid, finds that NOAH sales, often to professional investors, may contribute to housing precarity.
Mar 5, 2026
New automated mapping approach has potential to revolutionize fire suppression, research from UC Berkeley shows
A new paper from PhD candidate in Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Minho Kim, with Professor of City & Regional Planning Marta Gonzalez and Marc Castellnou of the Catalan Fire Service, details a novel computational approach that helps anticipate fire movement before it happens, with the aim of preventing catastrophic wildfires. The paper, “Modeling Potential Fire Spread Polygons and Networks for Suppression Strategies,” was published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Feb 26, 2026
Five CED faculty contribute to new Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice, with contributions by five CED authors, aims to provide innovative, “actionable steps to empower practitioners, students, and academics in creating vibrant and sustainable cities.”
Events
Natural Brilliance Easy Flow: The Landscapes of Infrastructure Adaptation | Lifchez Exhibition
Wed | Mar 18, 2026 – Fri | Apr 3, 2026
10 am – 5 pm
108 Bauer Wurster Hall
From Interface to Agency: A New Discourse for Design and AI | MDes Forum
Fri | Mar 20, 2026
9 am – 5 pm
Sibley Auditorium
Research Fellow Talks | Environmental Design Archives
Fri | Mar 20, 2026
1 – 2 pm
Online, via Zoom
Louise Mozingo: The Technocapitalist Metropolitan Landscape, The Silicon Valley as Place | Public Land, Public Space, Public Discourse
Mon | Mar 30, 2026
6 – 7:30 pm
112 Bauer Wurster Hall
The Weather To Come: Forest, City, Fire, Cloud | Just Climate Futures Exhibition
Tue | Apr 7, 2026 – Tue | Apr 21, 2026
10 am – 4:30 pm
Bauer Wurster Gallery
Mediating Landscapes: UC Berkeley + UPenn Faculty in Conversation | Public Land, Public Space, Public Discourse
Mon | Apr 13, 2026
6 – 7:30 pm
112 Bauer Wurster Hall