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Cecilia Lunaparra, a senior, will be the first undergraduate to serve on the city’s governing board. She ran on a platform of representing the student voice on issues such as accessible transportation, affordable housing, the preservation of public spaces, workers’ rights, equitable criminal justice, pro-union infrastructure investment, and a Green New Deal for Berkeley.

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $10 million to the Institute of Urban & Regional Development to establish the National Center on School Infrastructure.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning Michael Dear’s latest book, Border Witness: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Through Film (University of California Press, 2023), wins honors from the Association of Borderland Studies and the American Association of Geographers.

Architectural Record features the Kauhikoa Core House by Spiegel Aihara Workshop, the first built prototype of a low-cost, compact, easily shippable, prefabricated house that can be deployed for rapid rebuilding after disasters like the 2023 Maui fires.

In new research, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Danika Cooper explores how drawing and mapping — the graphic tools of her discipline — can provide actionable strategies toward an anticolonial, antiracist future. She demonstrates that these methods of visual communication can both document Indigenous dispossession and make claims for land-based reparations.