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Climate, Environmental Health Vulnerability, and Physical Planning

Jovanna Rosen, a Ph.D. student in Urban Planning and Development at the USC Price School, published an article titled “Climate, Environmental Health Vulnerability, and Physical Planning: A Review of the Forecasting Literature” in the Journal of Planning Literature. In the piece, she ties environmental health, planning, and climate forecasting literature to formulate Read more…

Director Raphael Bostic Interviewed on New Fair Housing Rule

by Justine Dodgen Bedrosian Center Director Raphael Bostic recently spoke with DS News to discuss HUD’s new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rule, which was announced in early July. AFFH intends to help communities that receive HUD funding meet long-standing fair housing obligations. During the interview, Bostic discussed what he hopes AFFH will help accomplish: My Read more…

Boarnet paper presented at IATBR

Organized by the Choice Modelling Centre at the University of Leeds, the 14th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research was held July 19-23, 2015 at the Beaumont Estate in Windsor, UK. On Sunday July 19, 2015 a paper presentation on “Day-to-Day Travel Variability and ‘Optimal’ Duration of Travel Survey: Moving Beyond Read more…

Zerunyan: Local government ‘needs to be collaborative’

Frank Zerunyan, Director of the Executive Education Forum, spoke at the Leadership in Local Government Conference in the City of Tshwane, Pretoria this week. Prof Zerunyan @CityTshwane Leadership conf: Innovation in local gov through COLLABORATION @cpsi_sa @uscprice pic.twitter.com/mYN310Ll66 — Pierre Schoonraad (@PSchoonraad) May 11, 2015 Frank said that local government must purposefully incorporate contributions Read more…

Bedrosian represents at MPSA 2015

Bedrosian Faculty and their research were widely represented at the 73rd annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference this past week. Kathleen Doherty presented two papers: Private Sector Experts and Policymaking in the FDA The paper examines whether incorporating private sector experts into drug approval decisions affects agency policy choices and Read more…

Bedrosian at APA Seattle 2015

Ron Sims, Bedrosian Advisory Board member, gave the keynote kickoff at this year’s American Planning Association (APA) National Conference in Seattle, WA. His message was clear and became the rally of the conference: “Planners are critical to the welfare of our communities.” “Planners are charged not with the present, but guiding us Read more…

Tinoco releases new article

Community Investment released a new paper by Bedrosian Faculty Affiliate, Eduardo Tinoco.  The paper provides a brief historical background of veterans’ educational benefits. Tinoco identifies current challenges facing student veterans. He explores the cost of student veterans’ education and the role of the new G.I. Bill. Universities help student veterans Read more…

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