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Jacqueline Leavitt
Ph.D. in Urban Planning, Columbia University Professor of Urban Planning
Phone: (310) 825-4380
Campus Extension: x54380
jleavitt@ucla.edu |
Dr. Leavitt's research has focused on housing
and community development policy, public housing, women and housing/service needs, and the
multiple meanings of home, among other topics. Recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in
1997, Dr. Leavitt is studying the impact of privatization on tenants living in council and
state housing; this work is being compared with similar research she is involved in with
public housing tenants in Los Angeles. She currently is principal investigator on a
project to help community organizations reverse disinvestment in troubled urban areas.
UCLA was the only university in Southern California and one of fourteen nationwide to
receive the grant, awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of
its new Community Outreach Partnership Center
Program.
Based on her research, Professor Leavitt has
served as a consultant to nonprofit resident groups, the Swedish Council for Building
Research, HUD and the New York City Housing Preservation and Development Agency. She has
provided expert testimony for state and city officials in California and New York and has
served on the board of the Nickerson Gardens Community Development Corporation, formed to
assist one of the largest public housing projects in Los Angeles. Dr. Leavitt and her
collaborators have won awards for their housing designs in several national competitions,
including a first place award in the 1984 "New American House" competition
sponsored by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the National Endowment for the
Arts. Her current research looks at interrelated issues of schools and youth programs in
relation to community development. She is working with 4-H on after-school programs
concerning children's understanding of their environment.
Selected Publications:
Leavitt, J. and A. Loukaitou-Sideris. "A
Decent Home and a Suitable Environment: Dilemmas of Public Housing Residents in Los
Angeles." Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (forthcoming).
Leavitt, J. and A. Heskin. "Housing and
Community." In A.J. Scott and E.R. Brown, eds., South-Central Los Angeles: Anatomy
of an Urban Crisis. Los Angeles: Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, UCLA, June
1993.
Leavitt, J. and S. Saegert. From Abandonment
to Hope: Community-Households in Harlem. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
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