
News + Events
Feb 18, 2025
City planning graduate students publish emergency access and evacuation report for the Berkeley Hills
“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.
Feb 18, 2025
Complex, by Dan Spiegel (SAW), named AR House of the Month
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.”
Feb 11, 2025
Renee Chow to step down as CED dean in 2026
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.
Feb 7, 2025
Newly published research from Max Buchholz tracks racial disparities in urban economic mobility
New research from Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning Max Buchholz published in PNAS suggests that large cities, with their high cost of living and large populations, may create strong barriers to Black and Latinx workers accessing good jobs with high levels of upward mobility, as compared to white workers. This research is part of Buchholz’s ongoing investigations into the causes of urban inequality.
Upcoming Events

Models: Process + Presentation | ED Archives Exhibition
Mon | Nov 25, 2024 – Tue | Apr 1, 2025
Environmental Design Library, 210 Bauer Wurster Hall

Moving the Spirit by Shaping the Earth | Exhibition
Thu | Feb 20, 2025 – Fri | Feb 28, 2025
Bauer Wurster Gallery

Raymond Lifchez Symposium for Social Justice & Planning
Fri | Feb 28, 2025
9 am – 6:30 pm

Dylan Connor: Spatial & Racial Wealth Inequality in the U.S. | City & Regional Planning Lecture
Thu | Mar 6, 2025
3:30 – 5 pm
Wurster 106

An Evening with Gabriela Carrillo | Architecture + AIA East Bay Lecture
Wed | Mar 12, 2025
7 – 8 pm
112 Bauer Wurster Hall

Mo Torres: They Ran that City Down: Municipal Stigma and Urban Austerity in Michigan | City & Regional Planning Lecture
Thu | Mar 20, 2025
3:30 – 5 pm
Wurster 106