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Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban and regional economics, social and spatial inequality, urbanization, segregation, quantitative methods

Nick Tsivanidis

Nick Tsivanidis

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

urban and regional economics, development economics, applied econometrics

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro standing in indoor setting

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

development economices, urban economics

Peter Bosselmann

Peter C. Bosselmann

Dept of Architecture

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban design, architecture, city and regional planning, landscape architecture

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

transportation economics, transportation planning, transportation systems analysis, aviation policy and planning, urban and regional planning, air transportation

Stephen Collier

Stephen Collier

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States

School of Public Health

urban health, gun violence, informal settlements, global public health, urban climate change, environmental impact assessment, mediation, environmental justice, urban and regional planning

Dept of Economics

labor economics, urban economics

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape ecology, remote sensing, GIS, spatial analysis, urban geography, ecosystem change, biodiversity, ecosystem services, wetlands, urban regions, landscape dynamics

Teresa Caldeira

Teresa Caldeira

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urbanization in the global south, peripheries: urban violence and spatial segregation, urban change, ethnography and qualitative methods

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Dept of City & Regional Planning

political polarization, politics of infrastructure, transportation policy and planning

ARE PhD students and Sofia Villas-Boas

Sofia Villas-Boas

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making

Sai Balakrishnan

Sai Balakrishnan

Dept of City & Regional Planning

spatial forms of urbanization, land-use changes

AnnaLee Saxenian

AnnaLee Saxenian

School of Information

innovation, information management, entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, regional economic development, high skilled immigration, Asian development

Maryam Hosseini in outdoor setting

Maryam Hosseini

Dept of City & Regional Planning

computer vision, pedestrian mobility, urban accessibility, walkability

Marta Gonzalez with phone held to her head standing with city scape as background.

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

human mobility, network science, complex systems, urban science, spending behavior, urban vulnerability and resilience, climate change

Neil Tsutsui standing in Woo Fai Han Hall with net draped over his back

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

insect behavior, evolutionary biology, ants, genetics, genomics, Argentine ants, kidnapper ants, chemical ecology, pheromones, urban parks, East Bay Regional Parks

Associate Professor Desiree Fields, smiling, wearing a colorfully patterned blouse in front of grey concrete background.

Dept of Geography

economic geography, urban theory, financialization, digital platforms, property, geographical political economy, housing justice, digital capitalism

Dept of City & Regional Planning

transportation, urban planning, travel behavior, immigration, housing, agglomeration

Alison Post

Dept of Political Science

regulation, infrastructure, water and sanitation, urban politics, urban politics and policy, comparative political economy, community-engaged research/scholarship, impact evaluations requested by governments/NGOs

Dept of City & Regional Planning

environmental planning, climate planning, sustainability and resilience, environmental and climate justice, geographic and spatial analysis, urban policy and political economy, global environmental governance, community engagement

Goldman School of Public Policy

crime, public policy, employment discrimination, labor economics, racial inequality, urban economics, criminal justice policy

Dept of City & Regional Planning

water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies

Dept of Architecture

architecture, urban design

Margaret Crawford

Dept of Architecture

history of architecture, architecture and urban design, urban history and theory, US built environment studies, urbanism in China