News

The Department of City & Regional planning is pleased to announce the appointments of Ken E. Salo as Theodore B. and Doris Shoong Lee Chair in Real Estate Law and Urban Planning and Joshua Muldavin as a visiting professor. Both bring deep experience and expertise in global urban issues: Muldavin is an Asia expert and Salo focuses on international law and urban governance in racialized subaltern urban collectives in South Africa, Northeast Brazil, and the American Midwest.

We’re proud to share the news that landscape architecture major Kamerin Creighton (BA 2027) has been selected for a prestigious Haas Scholarship. With Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Karl Kullman as her mentor, she will explore how the design, materiality, and spatial placement of George Floyd Square in Minneapolis reshapes collective historical memory and its surrounding urban fabric.

Nina Tiêu’s (MLA 2027) essay “Lessons from a Liberated Colony: How Architects Armed the Decolonization of Vietnam” wins second-place Avery Review Essay Prize from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

The College of Environmental Design announces the appointment of Dorothée Imbert, FASLA, as professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning. An expert in landscape modernism, she is a respected scholar, designer, and academic leader. Imbert received both her MLA and MArch degrees from Berkeley and in 2024 was honored with a CED Distinguished Alumni Award.

The College of Environmental Design is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Stephen J. Collier to a three-year term as chair of the Department of City & Regional Planning. Collier, who earned his PhD in anthropology from UC Berkeley, will also hold the Perloff Family Chair in City & Regional Planning. His research and teaching focus on planning theory, climate adaptation, and finance.