Equity and Social Justice

Kanani D’Angelo, who is pursuing concurrent MCP and MLA degrees, is the 2024 winner of the Hawaii Chapter ASLA/David T. Woolsey Scholarship from the Landscape Architecture Foundation. She is focusing on reviving Native Hawaiian cultural practices to restore degraded landscapes, such as freshwater fishponds, and reconnect people to the land.

Three studios considered the redevelopment of the Golden Gate Fields sites along the East Bay shoreline.

In an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee, Deborah McKoy, director of CED’s Center for Cities + Schools, argues for engaging homeless youth in the process of building sustainable support systems.

The Center for Cities + Schools, an affiliate center of the Institute of Urban & Regional Development, has just published a comprehensive exploration of the challenges plaguing TK–12 school facility funding in California. The report authored by Sara Hinkley, entitled “Moving to Equity: California School Facility Program Reform,” provides crucial context for the $14 billion school infrastructure bond measure that will appear on the November ballot.

Cheng-Kai (Kai) Hsu’s findings highlight the need for regulatory oversight to protect vulnerable gig workers and the public.

Naidu Janardhan, a leader in community-led design and sustainable architecture, will be in residence at the College of Environmental Design during the fall 2024 semester.

This year’s projects focus on neighborhood energy-sharing strategies, flood adaptation in unincorporated areas, and heat and pollution in urbanizing towns.

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?

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.

Paul Mayencourt is prototyping sustainable construction materials and methods in the Wood Lab, including a solar kiln.

In new research, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Danika Cooper explores how drawing and mapping — the graphic tools of her discipline — can provide actionable strategies toward an anticolonial, antiracist future. She demonstrates that these methods of visual communication can both document Indigenous dispossession and make claims for land-based reparations.

An exhibition and lecture reveal innovative research into climate solutions by CED faculty.

The Department of City & Regional Planning is delighted to welcome urban and economic geographer Max Buchholz, whose work on metropolitan growth promises to advance more equitable urban futures though its impact on policy and planning.

In this video, Arcus Social Justice Corps Fellows speak to the community-building power and industry-shifting impact of the program.

The five-year appointment recognizes and supports Acey’s work in environmental justice, both locally in the East Bay and in African cities.

CED alum Desirée Valadares (PhD Architecture 2022) won the Phyllis Lambert Prize for the best doctoral dissertation on the subject of the built environment in Canada for her dissertation focusing on the heritage politics of confinement or internment landscapes.

Rivera’s prize-winning article argues that engaging local histories of racism and prejudice in Texas’s Río Grande Valley is key to redressing post-disaster inequities.

This new grant program supports cross-disciplinary projects led by CED faculty that aim to reduce the impacts of climate change. This year’s funded projects forge innovations in climate resilience through explorations in building technologies and materials, housing security, water access, and community-based climate visualizations. These projects stood out from the field of applications for their impact on underserved communities and their capacity to have actionable environmental outcomes.

On September 25, Terner Labs hosts the inaugural symposium, The Search for Affordable Rental Housing, a deep dive into how technology is helping and hurting individuals who are seeking affordable rental housing.

Professor Emeritus of Architecture and City & Regional Planning Raymond (Ray) Lifchez has passed away at age 90. Lifchez made a deep and lasting impact on the College of Environmental Design (CED), UC Berkeley, and the world through his teaching, advocacy for accessible design, and philanthropy.