September 2020 Bookclub Pick!
Six months in the COVID-19 pandemic, we thought it would be good to see how past pandemics have shaped our lives … and continue to do so. Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World looks at Read more…
August 2020 Bookclub Pick
One of the first things you learn in Deirdre Mask’s The Address Book is that “most households in the world don’t have street addresses.”
July 2020 Bookclub Pick
The July 2020 Bookclub pick is N.K. Jemisons The City We Became.
From the Black Death to AIDS, pandemics have shaped human history. Coronavirus will too
Marlon Boarnet was quoted in the Los Angeles Times about how pandemics have shaped cities.
Mayor Mike Duggan set her up to succeed. That raises questions.
Detroit Free Press and Deadline Detroit quoted Terry Cooper of the USC Price School on whether it is unusual for a city government to raise funds for a nonprofit. Cooper, the USC professor, said the public deserves to know more about the city’s support of Make Your Date. “Are we being fair to other nonprofits Read more…
Planning for AuthentiCITIES
What is authenticity in a community? What is an authentic community? In a world which never stops changing, growing, evolving … how can planners take up the challenge of authenticity? Host Lisa Schweitzer talks with editors Brettany Shannon and Laura Tateof the new book Planning for AuthentiCITIESabout the challenge and how Read more…
How College Grads Drive Up Urban Rents
The Atlantic’s “CityLab” highlighted a working paper by Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center and colleagues on how the rise of more educated people with higher incomes in metropolitan areas has increased housing costs. Increased housing costs predominantly affect the less educated. Although Green found that a higher number Read more…
Are ride-share electric scooters the future of urban transport?
The Guardian (UK) quoted Marlon Boarnet of the USC Price School about the benefits of dockless scooter sharing in cities.
Location, Location, Location! Mobility and Opportunity in East King County
By Emily Lieb What’s in a neighborhood? Scholars (and realtors) agree: Where a person lives determines how much access to opportunity she has. Good schools, safe streets, high-quality housing that appreciates in value, accessible jobs and services, clean air and water—all of these things make it possible for people to Read more…
Access to Opportunity, the conceptual policy framework
by Dr. Raphael Bostic, President & Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Professor, University of Southern California, Price School of Public Policy and Sheryl Whitney, Partner, Whitney Jennings In our last post, which also happened to be our first post, we introduced the Access to Opportunity project, including the Read more…
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
Wade Graham’s latest book Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World< is ostensibly about the architects the seven big ideas that have shaped contemporary cities across the world. Our discussion centers on whether Graham has fulfilled that mission or whether he's trapped in the confines of an under 350 page book for this massive introduction to urban planning and city history. The answer may lie in the reader rather than the book, listen to the conversation for a lively jaunt through recent architectural history.
Meet the man who orchestrated Detroit’s astonishing revival
Perhaps no major city in the United States has faced more difficult economic challenges in recent years than Detroit. On Oct. 15, the USC Price School of Public Policy’s Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Athenian Society featured a conversation with Kevyn Orr, the man who led the revival of Read more…
Five Minutes with Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard
by Jeremy Loudenback In February, when Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard visited campus as part of Bedrosian Center’s Lunch with a Leader series, we had a chance to ask him a few questions about his long tenure at the helm of Pasadena. But change is coming for the city. Next Tuesday, Pasadena Read more…
Looking at the Fiscal Health of State and Local Governments in 2014
by Jeremy Loudenback After a year in which stories about cities facing bankruptcy from Detroit to San Bernadino were widely reported, it’s no secret that the fiscal health of many local governments is still on shaky ground. According to Janney Montgomery Scott analyst Tom Kozlik, the financial outlook for U.S. local Read more…
A Conversation with Ronald Loveridge – Urban and Suburban Sustainability
Students Talk Back: A Weekly Politics and Public Policy Forum February 27, 2013 12:00pm to 1:00pm Students Talk Back is a weekly series presented in partnership with USC Dornsife College’s Unruh Institute of Politics, the USC Price Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, and the USC Price Bedrosian Center on Governance. Join Read more…