30+ YEARS OF URBAN PLANNING AT UCLA:  A TIMELINE

University of California authorizes funds for the establishment of a school of architecture and urban planning on the Los Angeles campus

Founding Dean George Dudley was appointed

Dean George Dudley took residence at UCLA

Professor Peter Kamnitzer appointed

A two year master of Urban Design program was established with the admission of 12 students in Fall.

Dean Harvey Perloff was appointed and took residence at UCLA in Fall

School of Architecture and Urban Planning (SAUP) initiated       

Two separate programs Architecture/Urban Design and Urban Planning were launched

Library of Architecture and Allied Arts of Los Angeles (LAAALA) collection was donated to UCLA SAUP

1969

Professor Leland Burns appointed

Professor John Friedmann appointed     

John Friedmann, appointed Head of Urban Planning Program

Linda Adams, Graduate Advisor

Harvey Perloff receives grant from Department of Transportation for research and training program in urban transportation

1970

Professor Gene Grigsby appointed

Professor Barclay Hudson appointed

Professor Donald McAllister appointed

Jan Waller, Graduate Advisor

Ph.D. Program inaugurated

1971

Professor Martin Wachs appointed

Professor David Stea appointed  

First UP M.A. class graduated

Initial recognition of M.A. Program by APA

Urban Innovations Group (UIG) established

Professor Edward Soja appointed

Professor Karen Hill Scott appointed 

Professor Peter Marcuse appointed

Professor David Conn appointed

Initiation of JD/MA Concurrent Degree Program

Schoolwide administrative review resulted in the two program heads being appointed as Vice Chairs of the School

SAUP library established

Harvey Perloff receives HUD grant for New Town-In-Town study

First Ph.D. awarded (Tong Wu)

Formation of School of Architecture and Urban Planning Student Association (SAUPSA)

Publication of John Friedmann, URBANIZATION, PLANNING, AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Sage Publications

Publication of John Friedmann, RETRACKING AMERICA:  A THEORY OF TRANSACTIVE PLANNING, Doubleday and Anchor Books (an Urban Affairs Library Selection)

1974

Professor Robin Liggett appointed

Professor Donald Shoup appointed      

Marty Wachs, appointed Head of Urban Planning Program

Professor Allan Heskin appointed

Determination of procedure for selection of program head

Lee Burns receives Ford Foundation Research Fellowship

Dean=s Council is established to secure funding and raise awareness of SAUP

Establishment of SAUP Alumni Association

Professor Peter Marris appointed

UCLA Graduate Council Review and Site Visit

John Friedmann receives Guggenheim Fellowship

Ed Soja receives Fulbright Fellowship

  Ed Soja, appointed Head of Urban Planning Program

Professor Leo Estrada appointed

Initiation of MBA/MA Concurrent Degree Program

Marty Wachs receives Guggenheim Fellowship

Publication of Burns and Grebler, THE HOUSING OF NATIONS, MacMillan

Peter Marris, appointed Head of Urban Planning Program

Barbara Saxon Vineyard, Graduate Advisor

Barclay Hudson left

Don McAllister left

Professor Dolores Hayden appointed

Conference: Planning & Designing a Non-Sexist Society 

Dolores Hayden receives Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

Publication of Martin Wachs, TRANSPORTATION FOR THE ELDERLY, UC Press

Publication of John Friedmann, THE GOOD SOCIETY, MIT Press

Publication of John Friedmann and Clyde Weaver, TERRITORY AND FUNCTION:  THE EVOLUTION OF REGIONAL PLANNING, UC Press

David Conn relocated to Virginia Tech

Professor Margaret FitzSimmons appointed

Marsha Brown, Assistant to the Chair

Initiation of MBA/MA Concurrent Degree Program

Conference: Planning for Women's Needs

   Conference:  Housing and Employment: Challenges for Latinos in the 80's

My Fair Planner -- A Satirical Musical Review (starring Neal Richman, Gilda Haas and Mike Mahdesian)

Marty Wachs receives Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

1981

School is renamed Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning (GSAUP)

Marty Wachs, appointed Head of Urban Planning Program

Professor Rebecca Morales appointed

Conference: Planning for Women in the Economy: A Changing Perspective

UCLA Graduate Council Review and Site Visit

Dolores Hayden receives Guggenheim Fellowship

Publication of Harvey S. Perloff, PLANNING THE POST INDUSTRIAL CITY

Publication of Dolores Hayden, THE GRAND DOMESTIC REVOLUTION, MIT Press

Professor Michael Storper appointed

Bob Gottlieb appointed as Lecturer

David Stea relocated

Initiation of Latin American Studies, MA Concurrent Degree Program

Conference: Planning for Women and the Changing Household

Karen Hill Scott resigns ladder position

Robin Liggett receives UCLA Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award and Harvey L. Eby Award for the Art of Teaching

Stephen Commins receives Alumni Association Distinguished Scholar Award

John Friedmann, appointed Head of Urban Planning Program

  Harvey Perloff's Lustrum Celebration of 15 years as Dean

Conference: Minorities in L.A. :Strategies for Self Determination

Harvey Perloff dies

Sam Aroni appointed as Acting Dean (1983-85)

Publication of Allan Heskin, TENANTS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM: IDEOLOGY AND THE TENANT MOVEMENT, Praeger

  Professor Jacqueline Leavitt appointed

Gilda Haas appointed as lecturer  

Conference: Women in Poverty: Reversing the Trend

Conference: Toward a Just World Order

Accreditation Review and Site Visit

Jackie Leavitt and Troy West receive First Place Design Award for ANew American House@ national competition sponsored by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the National Endowment for the Arts

Jackie Leavitt and Troy West receive First Place Design Award for AThe House of Women@ national exhibition sponsored by the California State University at Long Beach and the Women=s Studies Program

Publication of Dolores Hayden, REDESIGNING THE AMERICAN DREAM: THE FUTURE OF HOUSING, WORK, AND FAMILY LIFE, W.W. Norton

Richard Weinstein appointed Dean of Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning

  Professor Paul Ong appointed

Leonie Sandercock appointed 

Conference: Planning to End Violence Against Women

Leo Estrada receives Kellogg Fellowship

Alumni Association Distinghished Scholar Award: Gail Dubrow

First accreditation of the Urban Planning MA program

Publication of Leland S. Burns and John Friedmann, eds., THE ART OF PLANNING: SELECTED ESSAYS OF HARVEY S. PERLOFF, Plenum

Publication of Martin Wachs, ed., ETHICS IN PLANNING, Center for Urban Policy, Rutgers University

Special issue of ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING magazine on UCLA Planning Alumni

Establishment of the Perloff Chair with Lisa Peattie as the Perloff Chair in UP

Conference: International Green Movements and the Prospects for a New Environmental/Industrial Politics in the U.S.

Marty Wachs receives UCLA Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award and California Planning Foundation Planning Educator of the Year Award

Marty Wachs receives Rockefeller Fellowship

Housing the Homeless in L.A. County receives AICP Student Project Award

Publication of Allan Scott and Michael Storper, eds., PRODUCTION, WORK, TERRITORY: THE GEOGRAPHICAL ANATOMY OF INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM, Allen and Unwin

Publication of Leland S. Burns and Leo Grebler, THE FUTURE OF HOUSING MARKETS, Plenum

Marty Wachs, appointed Head of Urban Planning Program 

Professor Susanna Hechtt appointed

Carol Goldstein appointed as lecturer    

Professor Gordon Cameron, Perloff Chair

Conference: Accepting the Challenge: Gender, Race and Disability in Urban Planning Education

ACSP Conference:   Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles

  Dedication of Perloff Hall

Jackie Leavitt receives APA Diana Donald Award honoring work on women's issues

Dolores Hayden receives APA Diana Donald Award honoring outstanding contributions to women's rights within the planning profession

Dolores Hayden receives ACSP Paul Davidoff Award for outstanding publication in urban planning for REDESIGNING THE AMERICAN DREAM

Lynn Hansen named UCLA Alumni Association Outstanding Graduate Student

Denise Fairchild named Graduate Woman of the Year

Publication of Leo v.d. Berg, Leo H. Klaassen, and Leland S. Burns, eds. SPATIAL CYCLES, Gower

Publication of Dolores Hayden, SEVEN AMERICAN UTOPIAS, MIT Press

Publication of John Friedmann, PLANNING IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: FROM KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION, Princeton University Press

Publication of Peter Marris, MEANING AND ACTION, Routledge and Kegan Paul

Publication of William Mitchell, T. Kvan and Robin Liggett, THE ART OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING:  A STRUCTURED INTRODUCTION FOR ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS, Van Norstrand

From Broadway to Skid Row to Bunker Hill:  Street ife in Downtown Los Angeles:  A Photographic Exhibition by Diego Cardoso

Symposium on Homelessness

Conference: Reclaiming our Neighborhoods: The Real Majority Plans L.A.

Conference: The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Life in Los Angeles

Lee Burns receives Guggenheim Fellowship

John Friedmann receives ACSP Distinguished Planning Educator Award

Michael Storper receives German Marshall Fellowship

Michele Prichard named UCLA Alumni Association Outstanding Graduate Student

Richard Massaro named Alumni Association Distinguished Scholar

Publication of John Friedmann, LIFE SPACE AND ECONOMIC SPACE: ESSAYS IN THIRD WORLD PLANNING, Transaction Press

Allan Heskin, appointed Head of Urban Planning Program

Professor Richard Fogelsong, Perloff Chair

Kimberly Maxwell, Graduate Advisor

School receives five million dollar gift from Ralph & Goldy Lewis to establish the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

Conference: Core-Periphery Revisited

Conference: Public Housing: Strategies for Resident Control

Conference: Remaking L.A.: A Special Report on the City - Present & Future

UCLA Graduate Council Review and Site Visit

Susanna Hecht receives MacArthur Foundation International Peace and Security Fellowship

The Dilemma of Solid Waste Management receives AICP Student Project Award

Drummond Buckley receives Edward E. McClure Prize for Best Paper by a Master's Student in Planning and Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Department Student Research Prize

Publication of Edward Soja, POSTMODERN GEOGRAPHIES:  THE REASSESSMENT OF SPACE IN CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY, Verso

Publication of Michael Storper and Richard Walker, THE CAPITALIST IMPERATIVE: TERRITORY, TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL GROWTH, Blackwell

Publication of Robert Gottlieb and Louis Blumberg, WAR ON WASTE: CAN AMERICA WIN ITS BATTLE WITH GARBAGE, Island Press

Publication of Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn, THE FATE OF THE FOREST, Verso Press

Stephen Commins appointed as Lecturer

Rebecca Morales left

Sam Aroni, Peter Kamnitzer, Peter Marris and Tim Vreeland retire

Conference: Self Empowerment in South Central Los Angeles: The Success of the African American Community

Conference: Dilemmas of Planning in Middle Eastern Cities

Workshop: Alternative Development

Conference: Crossing the Line: A Dialogue between Young Black and Young Jewish Professionals

Accreditation Review and Site Visit

In Our Backyard: Environmental Problems at UCLA receives AICP Student Project Award

Donna Graves named Alumni Association Distinguished Scholar

Deanna Matsumoto receives Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Department Student Research Prize

Publication of Jacqueline Leavitt and Susan Saegert, FROM ABANDONMENT TO HOPE: COMMUNITY HOUSEHOLDS IN HARLEM, Columbia University Press

Publication of Miguel Altieri and Susanna Hecht (eds), AGROECOLOGY AND SMALL FARM DEVELOPMENT, CRC Press

Publication of Leonie Sandercock, PROPERTY, POLITICS AND URBAN PLANNING: A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN CITY PLANNING 1890-1990, Transaction Press

1991

John Friedmann, appointed Head of Urban Planning Program

Professor Raul Hinojosa appointed

Professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris appointed

Professor Julie Roque appointed  

Neal Richman appointed as lecturer

Peter Marcuse, Perloff Chair

Peter Marris retires

Dolores Hayden relocates to Yale

Peter Kamnitzer retires

Community Scholars Program is Initiated

Conference: Cooperative Housing in the 1990s: Development and Movement Building

Paths for Tomorrow: Nickerson Gardens, A Community Planning for Change receives AICP Student Project Award

Elysian Park: New Strategies for the Preservation of Historic Open Space Resources receives Los Angeles Conservancy Award

The Widening Divide: Income Inequality and Poverty in Los Angeles receives AICP Student Project Award Honorable Mention

Karin Butler receives Alumni Association Outstanding Graduate Student Award (Honorable Mention)

Barbara Hooper receives Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Department Student Research Prize

Margaret FitzSimmons receives UCLA Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award

Jackie Leavitt receives Honorable Mention for ACSP Paul Davidoff Award for outstanding publication for FROM ABANDONMENT TO HOPE

Publication of Dana Cuff, ARCHITECTURE: THE STORY OF PRACTICE, MIT Press

Publication of Robert Gottlieb and Margaret FitzSimmons, THIRST FOR GROWTH: WATER AGENCIES AS HIDDEN GOVERNMENT IN CALIFORNIA, University of Arizona Press

Publication of Allen D. Heskin, THE STRUGGLE FOR COMMUNITY, Westview Press

Publication of Michael Storper, INDUSTRIALIZATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND THE REGIONAL QUESTION IN THE THIRD WORLD: FROM IMPORT SUBSTITUTION TO FLEXIBLE PRODUCTION, Pion

Chancellor's Outside Review Committee Site Visit

Robin Martin, Graduate Advisor

Conference: Learning from Latin America: Women's Struggles for Livelihood

Conference: A New Urban & Regional Hierarchy: Impacts of Modernization, Restructuring and the end of Bipolarity

Conference: Policy Options for Southern California

Tarry Hum named Alumni Association Distinguished Scholar

Barbara Hooper receives Alumni Association Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Elham Shirazi named UCLA Graduate Woman of the Year

Barbara Hooper receives Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Department Student Research Prize

Allan Heskin receives Award of Excellence from the Community Associations Institute Research Foundation for THE STRUGGLE FOR COMMUNITY

Jackie Leavitt, Carol Goldstein and Judith Sheine receive Second Place Design Award for "The New Urban Housing", in national competition sponsored by the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh

Publication of Jorge Bustamante, Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda and Clark W. Reynolds, eds., U.S. MEXICO RELATIONS: LABOR MARKET INTERDEPENDENCE ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, Stanford University Press

Publication of T. Downing, S. Hecht, and H. Pearson, eds., DEVELOPMENT OR DESTRUCTION: DEFORESTATION AND THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY IN LATIN AMERICA, Westview Press

Publication of John Friedmann, EMPOWERMENT: THE POLITICS OF ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT, Blackwell Publishers

Publication of Madelyn Glickfeld and Ned Levine, REGIONAL GROWTH...LOCAL REACTION: THE ENACTMENT AND EFFECTS OF LOCAL GROWTH CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT MEASURES IN CALIFORNIA, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Publication of Michael Storper and Allen J. Scott, eds. PATHWAYS TO INDUSTRIALIZATION AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Routledge

Publication of Martin Wachs and Margaret Crawford, eds. THE CAR AND THE CITY: THE AUTOMOBILE, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, AND DAILY URBAN LIFE, The University of Michigan Press

Publication of Donald Shoup , CASHING OUT EMPLOYER-PAID PARKING, U.S. Department of Transportation

1993

Chancellor announces Professional Schools Restructuring Initiative

Professor Shirley Hune appointed

Goetz Wolff appointed as lecturer

Professor Robert Beauregard, Perloff Chair

UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies established

Conference: Towards a Multicultural Society: The Politics of Identity and Diversity

Lilian Autler named Alumni Association Distinguished Scholar

Affirming Communities: Responsive Neighborhood Cultural Planning receives AICP Student Project Award

Elysian Park: New Strategies for the Preservation of Historic Open Space Resources receives California Preservation Foundation Award

Carol Kuester receives Alumni Association Outstanding Graduate Student Award (Honorable Mention)

Gail Sansbury receives Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Department Student Research Prize

UCLA Team wins second place award in National Planning and Design Competition for The Electric Vehicle and the American Community

Julie Roque is appointed Senior Policy Analyst at White House Office of Science & Technology Policy

Publication of Leland S. Burns, BUSY BODIES: HOW WE BECOME MORE HARRIED EVEN AS WE BECOME MORE AFFLUENT, W.W. Norton Publishing Co.

Publication of John Friedmann and Haripriya Rangan, eds., IN DEFENSE OF LIVELIHOOD: CASE STUDIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION, Kumarian Press

Publication of Robert Gottlieb, FORCING THE SPRING: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT, Island Press

Publication of J. Eugene Grigsby and David R. Godschalk, eds., SHAPING A NATIONAL URBAN AGENDA, Center for Afro-American Studies, UCLA

Publication of Linda Revilla, Gail Nomura, Shawn Wong and Shirley Hune, eds., BEARING DREAMS, SHAPING VISIONS: ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, Washington State University Press

Publication of Paul Ong, et.al., BEYOND ASIAN AMERICAN POVERTY: COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND STRATEGIES, LEAP

Publication of Michael Storper and Robert Salais, LES MONDES DE PRODUCTION:  ENQUETE SUR L'IDENTITE ECONOMIQUE, Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

1994

Disestablishment of Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning

Creation of School of Public Policy and Social Research with Archie Kleingartner as Founding Dean

Urban Planning becomes a Department

Lee Burns retires

Margaret FitzSimmons relocates to UCSC

Professor Brian Taylor appointed

Professor Dana Cuff 0% appointment in Urban Planning

Publication of CRITICAL PLANNING JOURNAL, Vol. 1, No. l 

Conference: Los Angeles: Economic Challenges and Opportunities

Ed Soja, appointed Chair of Department of Urban Planning

Fred Seavy named Alumni Association Distinguished Scholar

Seeds of Change: Strategies for Food Security in the Inner City receives AICP Student Project Award Honorable Mention

Jackie Leavitt receives grant from US Department of Housing and Urban Development for Community Outreach Partnership Center

Shirley Hune is University of California Management Institute Fellow

Publication of Robert Bullard, J. Eugene Grigsby and Charles Lee, eds., RESIDENTIAL APARTHEID: THE AMERICAN LEGACY, Center for Afro-American Studies, UCLA

Publication of Edna Bonacich, Lucie Cheng, Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton and Paul Ong, eds., GLOBAL PRODUCTION OF THE APPAREL INDUSTRY IN THE PACIFIC RIM, Temple University Press

Publication of Paul Ong, ed., THE STATE OF ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICA: ECONOMIC DIVERSITY, ISSUES AND POLICIES, Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute, LEAP

Publication of Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich, and Lucie Cheng, eds., THE NEW ASIAN IMMIGRATION IN LOS ANGELES AND GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING, Temple University Press

1995

Paul Ong, appointed Chair of Department of Urban Planning

Professor Abel Valenzuela 0% appointment in Urban Planning

Aaron Shonk, Graduate Advisor

Accreditation Review and Site Visit

North American Integration and Development (NAID) Center established

J. Eugene Grigsby receives JAPA 1994 Honorable Mention for best feature article for "In Planning There is No Such Things as a Race Neutral Policy."

J. Eugene Grigsby receives the International House of Blues Foundation Educator's Achievement Award

Dana Cuff receives PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE annual research award for FORM IN CONTENTION

Publication of Allan Heskin and Jacqueline Leavitt, eds., THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF HOUSING COOPERATIVES, Davis, Center for Cooperatives

Publication of Hunter College Women's Studies Collective (Shirley Hune), WOMEN'S REALITIES, WOMEN'S CHOICES: AN INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STRUGGLES, Oxford University Press

Urban Planning moves from Perloff Hall to Public Policy Building

Conference: Planning and the Rise of Civil Society: A Symposium Celebrating the Planning Career of John Friedmann

John Friedmann retires 

John Friedmann and Leonie Sandercock relocate to Australia

Professor Jim Lubben 0% appointment in Urban Planning

Vanessa Dingley, Graduate Advisor

M.A. curriculum revisions approved by Graduate Council

Julie Roque dies

  Barbara Nelson is appointed Dean of the School of Public Policy and Social Research 

J Eugene Grigsby is appointed Director of the Advanced Policy Institute

Jackie Leavitt receives Fulbright for study in New Zealand

J Eugene Grigsby receives Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human   Rights in North America for RESIDENTIAL APARTHEID: THE AMERICAN LEGACY (with Bullard, and Lee)

Gail Sansbury receives American Planning History Research Prize for "Calculating Cost and Value: The 1954 FHA Investigation

Projects from UP 229 "Planning in the Information Age," (taught by Paul Ong and Neal Richman) receive Los Angeles APA Award for Innovative Use of Technology

Roy Chan and Daryl Sequeira receive Los Angeles Chapter APA Academic Award for "A Blueprint for AIDS Housing"

Marty Wachs relocates to Berkeley

Professor Lucie Cheng 0% appointment in Urban Planning

UCLA Graduate Council Review and Site Visit

Susanna Hecht receives MacArthur Foundation Peace and Security Fellowship

Donald Shoup receives American Planning Association, Honorable Mention for Best Feature for "Regulating Land Use at Sale: Public Improvement from Private Investment," JAPA, Vol 62, No.3, 1996

Gail Sansbury receives Society of American City and Regional Planning History National Student Research Prize

Publication of Donald Shoup, EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF PARKING CASH OUT: EIGHT CASE STUDIES, California Environmental Protection Agency

Publication of Michael Storper and Robert Salais, WORLDS OF PRODUCTION: THE ACTION FRAMEWORKS OF THE ECONOMY, Harvard University Press

Publication of Michael Storper, THE REGIONAL WORLD: TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY, London: Guilford Press.

1998

Donald Shoup, appointed Chair of Department of Urban Planning  

Paul Ong appointed Director of the Lewis Center and Acting Director of IIR

Bob Gottlieb relocates to Occidental

Professor Evelyn Blumenberg appointed

Professor Michael Stoll 0% appointment in Urban Planning

Peter Kamnitzer dies

Initiation of M.Arch.I, Architecture and Urban Design/M.A., Urban Planning Concurrent Degree Program

Conference: Transportation and the Economy (9^th Transportation/Land Use/Air Quality Connection symposium)

Conference: Getting Welfare Recipients to Work: Transportation and Welfare Reform

Lecture series on Gender and Community Development

Abel Valenzuela receives Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

Jeff Brown receives Charley V. Wootan Award for Best Thesis in Transportation from the Council of University Transportation Centers for his thesis entitled "Trapped in the Past:  The Gas Tax and Highway Finance"

Byzantine Latino Quarter: Creating Community in Los Angeles comprehensive project wins Academic Award for merit from the California Chapter of the APA, and the Los Angeles APA Academic Award.

Megan Hunter, Trent Lethco and Paula Smith receive Presidential Management Intern Awards

Publication of Anastasia Loukaiktou-Sideris and T. Banerjee, URBAN DESIGN DOWNTOWN; POETICS AND POLITICS OF FORM, University of California Press

Publication of Michael Storper, L. Tsipouri and S. Thomadakis, eds., LATECOMERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, London: Routledge

1999

5^th Annual University of California Transportation Center Student Conference

Global City Regions Conference

Edward Soja is appointed Visiting Centennial Professor, London School of Economics (Cities, Architecture and Engineering Program) Winter 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002

Susanna Hecht gives President's Lecture at Cornell University

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris receives Award for Contribution to Excellence in Academia from Southern California Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization

Byzantine Latino Quarter: Creating Community in Los Angeles comprehensive project wins 1999 National AICP Student Project Award in the category contribution of planning to contemporary issues.

Elaine Forbes receives Presidential Management Intern Award

Publication of Paul Ong, ed., IMPACTS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, Altamira Press

Professor Randall Crane is appointed

2000

Accreditation Review and Site Visit

Transportation and Welfare Reform Conference

Rebirth of the Thursday Night Lecture Series:  Opening the Regulatory Process:  Women's Approaches-- Making Space and Policies for Change

Urban Planning 30th Anniversary Celebration

Philip Law (M.A. '99)  receives Charley V. Wootan Award for Best Thesis in Transportation Policy and Planning from the Council of University Transportation Centers for his thesis entitled "The Los Angeles Bus Shelter Program:  An Analysis of Location, Design and Construction Contracts and Recommendations for Improvement"

Kay Gilbert, Jeree Glasser and Scott Perley receive Presidential Management Intern Award

Gian Claudia Sciara is Eno Fellow, APA Transportation Foundation Eighth Annual Leadership Development Conference

Paula Sirola receives Inter-American Foundation Fellowship

Publication of Soja, E.W., POSTMETROPOLIS: CRITICAL STUDIES OF CITIES AND REGIONS,  Oxford, Basil Blackwell

Publication of Lawrence Bobo, Melvin Oliver, James Johnson, Jr. and Abel Valenzuela, Jr., eds., PRISMATIC METROPOLIS: INEQUALITY IN LOS ANGELES, Russel l Sage Foundation

Publication of J. Eugene Grigsby II, Manuel Pastor Jr., Peter Dreier, and Marta Lopez, HOW CITIES AND SUBURBS CAN GROW TOGETHER, University of Minnesota Press

Publication of Randall Crane and Marlon Boarnet, TRAVEL BY DESIGN:  THE INFLUENCE OF URBAN FORM ON TRAVEL, Oxford University Press

2001

Professor Lois Takahashi appointed

Professor Allan Heskin Retires

Professor Vinit Mukhija appointed

Brian Taylor appointed Director of UCLA Institute of Transportaton Studies

Brian Taylor, Mark Garrett and Hiroyuki Iseki receive Transportation Research Board's Pyke Johnson Award for best paper in the area of planning and administration of transportation facilities for "Measuring Cost Variabilaity in the Provision of Transit Service"

Heather Barnett, Marc Hanson and Charlie Sciammas, Irvine Foundation Sustainable Community Leadership Program Fellows

Jeff Brown, Eno Transportation Foundation Fellow

Lisa Schweitzer, Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship

Mary Jane Breinholt, Ph.D. 2001, wins Charles Wootan Award for best Ph.D. dissertation in transportation policy and planning in a nationwide competition sponsored by the Council of University Transportation Centers.

Ph.D. student Allison Yoh is appointed by Mayor Hahn to the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Initiation of SPPSR Program in Leadership and Management of Nonprofit and Community-Based Organizations

Initiation of SPPSR initiative in International, Regional, and Comparative Policy and Practice

Establishment of SPPSR Center for Globalization and Policy Research

Field based course in London on Comparative Urban Transportation Policy on led by Brian Taylor

2002

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris appointed Chair of the Department of Urban Planning

Professor Gene Grigsby appointed President/CEO of the National Health Foundation (NHF)

Susanna Hecht, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

Michaiel Storper, Visiting Centennial Professor, Department of Geography, London School of Economics

Jun Wong Son, Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science

Dan Chatman, Eno Transportation Foundation Fellow

Charlie Sciammas, winner of California Planning Roundtable Essay Competition

Jeff Brown, UC Transportation Center Outstanding UC Transportation Student

Community Scholars Project 2000-2001: "Care in Building Coalitions in Los Angeles" won the 2002 Academic Award from the Los Angeles Section of the American Planning Association and the Leadership and Service Award from the California Chapter of the American Planning Association

Publication of Amrita Daniere and Lois M. Takahashi. RETHINKING ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN THE PACIFIC RIM: EXPLORING LOCAL PARTICIPATION IN BANGKOK, THAILAND. London: Ashgate Publishing

Field based course in Berlin on Comparative Urban Transportation Policy led by Brian Taylor.

Field based course onCommunity Development in Brazil led by Abel Valenzuela

2003

Graduate Advisor Vanessa Dingley retires.

Department of Urban Planning celebrates Professor Lee Burns' 50 years at UCLA

Judith Magee is hired as Graduate Advisor

David Lee is hired asStudent Affairs Officer for admissions and recruitment

9th Annual UC Student Transportation Conference held at UCLA.

UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies conference on Traffic Congension: Issues and Options

Lois Takahashi, UC San Francisco Collaborative HIV Prevention Research in Minority CommunitiesFellowship

Susanna Hecht fellow of the Stanford Institute for Advanced Studies in theBehavioral Sciences.

Lisa Schweitzer, selected 2003 Transportation Student of the Year by University of California Transportation Center

Amy Ford, First Place Outstanding Student Scholarship, California Planning Foundation.

Urban Planning graduates win prestigious awards from the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC): Kathleen Rogers (Urban Planning M.A. 03’) won the Wootan Award for her master’s thesis, and Jeffrey Brown (Urban Planning Ph.D. ’03) won for best Ph.D. dissertation. Heather Burton (Urban Planning M.A. ’03) has been named winner of the 2003 CUTC/HNTB Non-Thesis Award.

Paper by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Robin Liggett and Hiroyuki Iseki "The Geography of Transit Crime: Documentation and Evaluation of Crime Incidence on and around the Green Line Stations in Los Angeles (JPER, Vol. 22, pp. 135-151) receives Journal of Planning Education and Research Chester Rapkin Award.

Publication of Vinit Mukhija. SQUATTERS AS DEVELOPERS? SLUM REDEVELOPMENT IN MUMBAI. London: Ashgate Publishing.

Publication of Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura (Eds), ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN WOMEN: A HISTORICAL ANTHOLOGY, New York University Press.

Field based course on Housing, Land Use and Transportation in Bombay led by Vinit Mukhija.

2004

Paper by Jeffrey Brown, Daniel Hess, and Donald Shoup, " Fare-Free Public Transit at Universities: An Evaluation," receives Journal of Planning Education and Research Chester Rapkin Award for best paper. (JPER, Vol 23, No. 1, Fall 2003, pp. 69-82).

Michela Zonta, UP Ph.D. 2004, receives Fannie Mae/ACSP awrd for best conference paper in the fields of housing and community development.

Ph.D. student Orit Stieglitz is awarded a Fulbright grant to Israel in the field of urban development and planning.

School ofPublic Policy and Social Research is renamed SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

Department of Urban Planning honors Mimi Perloff on her 90th birthday.

2005

Katie Vincent is hired asStudent Affairs Officer for admissions and recruitment

Paul Ong receives Ann C. Rosenfield Distinguished Community Partnership Prize from Center for Community Partnerships

Professor Gene Grigsby retires.

Establishment of Urban Planning Alumni AdvisoryCouncil and mentorship program

School of Public Affairs Celebrates 10 years of Leadership, 1994-95 - 2004-05

PAB Accreditation Site Visit

Study by Professor Bruce Stiftel, finds UCLA Department of Urban Planning is the top urban planning department in the nation on the basis of two combined indicators: 1) number of citations of faculty research; and 2) number of publications in peer-reviewed journals listed in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

M.A. student Edgar Garcia receives US/ICOMOS international internship to travel to Moscow and Yaroslavl Russia to work on the conservation of Russian Orthodox churches.

M.A. student Aiha Nguyen receives Millenium Momentum Foundation Scholarship.

M.A. student Marcelle Boudreaux receives L.A. APA Distinguished Leadership Award and California Chapter Distinguished Service Award.

M.A. student Paul Sorensen is selected ot attend 13th Annual Leadership Development Conference on transportation public policy in Washington D.C., sponsored by ENO Transportation Foundation.

Ph.D. student Charisma Acey receives American Marshall Memorial Fellowship.

Ph.D. student Camille Fink wins 2005 award for best (non-thesis) masters capstone project from the Council of University Transportation Centers for terrorism security assessment of Union Station in Los Angeles.

Ph.D. student David King receives Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship

Ph.D. student Andrew Mondschein receives Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship

M.A. student Alvaro Huerta is one of three UCLA students to receive the Charles E. Young Humanitarian Award for Outstanding Community Work. He also receives "Best and Brightest Scholarship" from the Millenium Momentum Foundation.

M.A. Graduate, Paul Sorensen, wins award for best transportation policy and planning master's project, thesis, or dissertation from Council of University Transportation Centers.

Recent M.A. graduate Lauren Buckland wins 2005 GIS contest sponsored by the Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.

M.A. student Jane Berner receives Myra Frank Memorial Scholarship from the Los Angeles Chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar.

Publication of Donald Shoup, PARKING CASH OUT, APA Planning Advisory Service.

2006

Field based course on International and Comparative Planning: Sustainability and Development in Cairo, Egypt, led by Randy Crane.

Graduate Council Site Visit.

Minor in Urban and Regional Studies approved.

Symposium on Urban Problems and Challenges to inaugurate the URS minor.

Sustaining Los Angeles, UCLA Urban Technology Conference

Robin McCallum is hired as Graduate Advisor.

Professor Susanna Hecht receives fellowship for residency at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Uncommon L.A. receive Center for Community Partnerships Grant.

Professor Donald Shoup's book THE HIGH COST OF FREE PARKING is named a winner in the Planetizen Fifth Annual Top 10 Books list and Planetizen list of the top 10 planning issues of 2005

M.A. student Eric Morris wins APA Transportation Division 2006 outstanding student paper competition,

M.A. student Deirdre Pfeiffer receives National Science Foundation Fellowship

M.A. student Alvaro Huerta receives Ford Foundation 2006 Diversity Fellowship Predoctoral Award (for study at UC Berkeley)

Doctoral student John Douglas Houston receives Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship from National Highway Institute

M.A. student Daniel Freeman is selected University Level Award Winner and wins Grand Prize in Bond Companies University Challenge green building real estate competition

Urban Planning studentsLara Regus, Ava Bromberg, Sara Slovin, Matthew Dresden and Quinn Tang selected to work in Beijing with the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design.

Urban Planning students receive Lewis Center GIS Contest Awards: 2nd Place (tied), Adrian Leung, "Geographical Barriers - New Bicycle Lanes in the Northern Los Angeles Basin", Andrea Osgood, Sandra O'Flaherty and Lara Regus, "Fighting NIMBYism through GIS: Comparing Population Density in Los Angeles and New York" and Honorable Mention: Veronica Saldana "Colonias in the Imperial County: Underserved and Unacknowledged Communities"

M.A. student Lily Song receives grant from Institute of American Cultures

M.A. student Adina Ringler receives Myra L. Frank memorial scholarship.

Ph.D. student Victor Pineda receives Jefferson Award for making a difference in his community

Publication of Paul Ong and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Eds., JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES, Temple University Press.

2007

Field based course on International and Comparative Planning in Cuba and Brazil , led by Leo Estrada

UCLA Public Policy Building is renamed School of Public Affairs Building.

Urban Planning Department hosts 10 Visiting Affiliates from the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design.

UCLA study on "Light Rail Lite or Cost-Effective Improvements to Bus Service? Evaluating Costs Implementing Bus Rapid Transit" by Professor Brian Taylor, Daniel B. Hess (Ph.D. 2002) and Allison Yoh (Ph.D. 2007) receives best paper competition sponsored by the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) at City University of New York.

Peter Marris, professor emeritus and former head of department of Urban Planning passes away.

Professor Shirley Hune retires.

Ph.D. student Mike Smart is selected to attend the Eno Leadership Conference.

M.A. student Genevieve Carpio receives Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship.

Project from the joint urban design studio taught by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Jurg Lang on the Metro Gold Line wins first place in the academic project category of the American Planning Association's Los Angeles Chapter.

Publication of Abel Valenzuela, Jr. and Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Eds., IMMIGRATION AND CRIME: RACE, ETHNICITY AND VIOLENCE, NYU Press.

 

2008

Barbara Nelson steps down as Dean of School of Public Affairs

Frank Gilliam appointed Dean of School of Public Affairs

Brian D. Taylor appointed Chair of the Department of Urban Planning

Professor Chris Tilly appointed

Assistant Professor Rui Wang appointed

Jennifer Crowe is hired as Student Affairs Officer for admissions and recruitment

Urban Planning Department hosts two Perloff Scholars: John Friedmann and Ann Markusen.

Urban Planning Department hosts 7 Visiting Affiliates from the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design.

Professor Susanna Hecht receives Guggenheim Fellowship for work on human impacts on Amazonia

Ph.D. student Eric Morris and M.A. student Stephen Brumbaugh receive 2008 Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships from the U.s. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration

Ph.D. student Victor Pineda receives 2008-09 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship

Urban Planning graduate Andrea Osgood (MA UP ’07), receives Council of University Transportation Center Neville A. Parker Award for her project titled, “Curb Dreams: Allocating On-Street Parking for Carsharing. An Analysis of Local Government Agencies’ Options for Encouraging Carsharing Use Through On-Street Parking Programs.”

Urban Planning Ph.D.Doug Houston is named UC Transportation Student of the Year by Council of University Transportation Centers

Urban Planning celebrates the career and work of Distinguished Professor Edward Soja at Sojafest.

Urban Planning Alumni Council sponsors conference on Public Private Partnerships and Transit Oriented Development

Field based course on International and Comparative Planning in Tokyo, led by Evelyn Blumenberg

Publication of Annette Bernhardt, Heather Boushey, Laura Dresser and Chris Tilly ( Eds.), THE GLOVES-OFF ECONOMY: WORKPLACE STANDARDS AT THE BOTTOM OF AMERICA'S LABOR MARKET, Cornell University Press.

2009

Urban Planning hosts Perloff Professor Hilda Blanco

Professor Lois Takahashi named Director of UC Asian American and Pacific Islander Multi-Campus Research Program

Professor Lois Takahashi receives C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies at UCLA

Professor Donald Shoup receives his second Chester Rapkin Award for the best article in Journal of Planning Education and Research for "Graduated Density Zoning."

Urban Planning hosts 7 Visiting Affiliates from the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design.

Field based course on International and Comparative Planning in Brazil, led by Paul Ong

Summer Program in at University of Geneva, Switzerland on Global Change and International Governance, Directed by Professor Leo Estrada.

Leon Hoffman Urban Technology Symposium: Transportation & Land Use Strategies in Climate Action Planning

Cecilia Estolano (MA 1991) receives 2009 UCLA Urban Planning Alumni Award.

Ph.d. candidate TH Culhane is 2009 National geographic Emerging Explorer.

Publication of Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht, SIDEWALKS: CONFLICT AND NEGOTIATION OVER PUBLIC SPACE, MIT Press.