Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D. (City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley) has published his first book, "Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm" (San Diego State University Press).

In a new paper set for publication in Urban Studies, Daniel Chatman of the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley and fellow planner Robert Noland of Rutgers University use concrete numbers to make the case that transit produces agglomeration.

Jia-Ching Chen, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of City & Regional Planning, has been selected as a Switzer Environmental Fellow for his work on China's role in the global green economy, and its impact on global food and energy resources.

Students from areas in Japan that were hard hit by the earthquake and tsunami 2 and a half years ago come to the Bay Area to participate in Y-PLAN's Tomodachi program at the College of Environmental Design.

The fourth video in The #GlobalPOV Project series takes a look at the world-class city. It has towers, expressways, shopping malls, airports, private schools, and gated condominiums with golf courses, swimming pools and tennis courts. It has no slums, bu

Associate public health and city and regional planning professor Jason Corburn is a principal investigator on a collaborative Global Metropolitan Studies project aimed at creating a GPS map of the Nairobi city slum of Mathare.

Nezar Alsayyad, Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design, and Urban History and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies gives perspective to the recent events in Egypt.

Sahra Mirbabaee, a CED undergraduate in Urban Studies will be working this summer at the Energy and Social Dialogue Department at Fraunhofer MOEZ in Germany.

Amanda Eaken (M.C.P. ‘05), deputy director of sustainable communities at the Natural Resources Defense Council, recently received two prestigious awards for her leadership in shaping California's smart growth future.

The Chancellor’s Community Partnership Fund (CCPF) announced the 2013-14 recipients of a total of $252,000 to 11 partnerships between local community members and UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff.