Category: Events

Dr. Kevin Kane evaluates the impact of building-level and neighborhood-level characteristics on the accessibility of neighborhood businesses to housing units using Long Beach, California as a case study.  While advocates of smart growth and New Urbanism encourage both mixed-use developments and land use mixing, analysis at the aggregated level can be too coarse to pick up on the fine-grained characteristics of urban streetscapes.

The Metropolitan Futures Initiative (MFI) Second Regional Progress Report presentation was held on June 11, 2014. The audience was welcomed by the School of Social Ecology’s Dean, Valerie Jenness. Professor John Hipp, Director of MFI, revealed data that adds to the findings of the first report on jobs, home values, land use, crime, and the economy.

On June 14, 2012 Chancellor Michael V. Drake, M.D. welcomed community members, students and professors to the release and discussion of the Metropolitan Futures Initiative (MFI) First Regional Report. Professor John Hipp, Director of MFI, presented a summary of the interesting findings on topics such as housing, jobs, transportation, and crime.

Dan Immergluck, Professor Georgia Tech University, School of City and Regional Planning, was the featured speaker on May 4, 2011. This event was part of the Metropolitan Futures Initiative and was co-sponsored by MFI, School of Social Ecology, Community Outreach Partnership Center and the Center for Community Development Studies. Immergluck presented on the polices and systems for responding to foreclosures and the housing market stress.

On April 21, 2011,  Dave Feldman, Chair and Professor in the Department of Planning, Policy and Design at UC Irvine, discussed California’s long history of contentious, often divisive water politics. His lecture examined the issues caused by growing population, urbanization, pollution, and climate change and provided some potential solutions.