URBAN PLANNING Faculty continued FROM PREVIOUS page
Edward Soja, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Geography, University of Wisconsin. Critical urban and regional studies; interpretations of urban restructuring in Los Angeles; comparative studies of regional restructuring in industrial societies; and spatiality and planning theory. Michael A. Stoll, Professor, Ph.D., Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Interplay of race/ethnicity, urban poverty and labor markets, urban economic development strategies. Michael Storper, Professor, Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley. The relationship between trade patterns and location patterns; regional development in the Brazilian Northeast; evaluation of regional policy research for Directorate General XII of the European Union. Lois Takahashi, Professor and Chair, Ph.D., Urban Planning, University of Southern California. Social service delivery focusing on HIV/AIDS and homelessness; NIMBY/community opposition toward human service facilities; social capital and health; social capital and environmental management in Southeast Asian cities. Brian D. Taylor, Professor, Ph.D., Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles. Transportation policy, planning, and finance; politics of transportation finance including the history of freeway finance and linking subsidies to public transit performance; equity in the finance of transportation systems; transportation and urban form; planning for special populations including the poor and the disabled. Chris Tilly, Professor, Ph.D. Economics and Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Director, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Work and labor markets; poverty and inequality; community and regional development; social movements with a focus on the U.S. and Mexico, with some broader comparative work.