Michael Larice

Lecturer in Architecture, City & Regional Planning; InCity Lead

SPECIALIZATIONS

Urban design, comparative urban studies, architecture, urban theory and form, planning theory and history, livability theory and practice, quality of life, urban studies and design methods, research design, housing design and typology, slum housing and upgrading, international development, social sustainability, street and streetcar system design.

EDUCATION

PhD, City and Regional Planning (Urban Design), University of California, Berkeley

Master of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles

Bachelor of Design, University of California, Los Angeles

BIOGRAPHY

Michael Larice is a designer and educator who teaches urban design and urbanism, applied theory, design methods, street and transit design, and progressive housing. Larice’s work focuses largely on the transformative urban design of livable places — and increasingly on how to manifest socially sustainable places. He holds a PhD in city planning from UC Berkeley, where his dissertation focused on the form and livability of high-density neighborhoods in North America. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of British Columbia, the University of Utah, and UC Berkeley. Most recently, he directed the PhD Program in Metropolitan Planning, Policy and Design at the University of Utah.

COURSES TAUGHT

ENV DES 2 — Summer Institute, InCIry
ENV DES 43 – The Global City
ENV DES 100 – The City: Theories & Methods of Urban Studies
CYPLAN 110 – Introduction to City Planning
CYPLAN 111 – Introduction to Housing: An International Survey

Publications

Larice, M. (2019). “Urban Design” and “Urban Design History” Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, Anthony Orum, ed.

Larice, M. and Hinners, S. (2016). Assessing the Impacts of Streetcars on Economics, Equity, and Quality of Urban Life. US Dept of Housing and Urban Development – Sustainability Communities Program.

Larice, M. and Scheer, B. (2016). Strategic Design and Policy for Improving the Livability and Multimodal Use of U.S. Urban Arterials and Commercial Highways. National Institute for Transportation and Communities.

Larice, M. and Macdonald, E. (2012). The Urban Design Reader, 2nd Edition. Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis. 660 pages.

Larice, M. and Macdonald, E. (2006). The Urban Design Reader, 1st Edition. Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis. 560 pages.