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May 20, 2024
Terner Center creates new tool to study housing affordability in California
Terner Center study creates interactive map on housing affordability in California, asking an essential question: How affordable is California to the people who would live there if they could?
May 17, 2024
Ronald Rael talks to Arch Daily about the future of architecture
In an interview published in Arch Daily, Professor Ronald Rael shares his views on the potential of AI, material culture, the role of the architect in society, architectural education, sustainability, and more.
Apr 23, 2024
Urban studies student elected to Berkeley City Council in special election
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.
Apr 19, 2024
IURD awarded U.S. Department of Education funding to establish National Center on School Infrastructure
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.
Apr 17, 2024
Michael Dear’s Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands Through Film wins acclaim
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.