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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.

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.”

We are proud that three graduates of the Department of Architecture were elevated this year to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. Congratulations to Rossana Hu (BA 1990), Hon. FAIA; Mary Ruppenthal (MArch 1999), FAIA; and Bryan Young (BA 1997), FAIA.

In a paper published recently in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning Zachary Lamb and his co-authors assess the spatial characteristics of manufactured home parks in the Bay Area to find out if, counter-intuitively, they could be examples of “good urbanism.” 

The New York Times features a down-to-the-studs house renovation and addition designed by Associate Professor of Architecture Andrew Atwood’s First Office.