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Remembering Professor Emeritus Allan B. Jacobs, an influential urban planner and thinker about cities. Jacobs had an outsize impact on the field of urban design and led generations of students to grasp the importance of observation in understanding how great cities work.

A duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, shows off Ultramoderne’s take on “cheapskate” architecture, using discarded materials from local construction projects. “Innovative architecture is still possible in today’s economic climate—it just requires a new approach.”

“Getting In, Out, and About,” a report by Morgan Cunneen-Franco (MCP 2025), Lisa Schroer (MCP 2025), and Esteban Villaseñor (MCP 2025), analyzes the Berkeley Hills and recommends strategies to improve pedestrian safety, emergency vehicle access, and evacuation routes in the dense residential area.

Complex, a project in Atherton by lecturer Dan Spiegel’s practice Spiegel Aihara Workshop, named house of the month by Architectural Record. “Surprising details everywhere are the real joy of the project,” writes Clare Jacobson, who deems Complex “simply successful.”

William W. Wurster Dean of the College of Environmental Design Renee Y. Chow announced her decision to step down as dean at the end of her current five-year term on June 30, 2026.