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Architecture & Urban Planning

Building our cities and structures more sustainably is at the heart of many of our fellows’ work. Building greener hospitals, planning for pedestrian and bike traffic, and looking at ways to reduce the heat island effect in cities are just some of the ways fellows are contributing.

Spotlight on Leadership

Making Alleys a Place for Play (Not Old Couches)
Making Alleys a Place for Play (Not Old Couches)

After six years of research and community organizing, 2005 Fellow Tori Kjer and her colleagues have won strong support from the community for their Avalon Green Alley Network Plan in South Los Angeles, and the renovation of two alleys is scheduled to begin early next year.Read more >

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Fellows in the News

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Mulvaney argues that ‘streamlining’ environmental reviews could actually hamper clean energy production
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Restoring Lost Streams: A Conversation with Jessica Hall, Landscape Architect
Fellows in the News | Jun 22, 2022
Patterson featured in Resources Radio on driving toward transportation justice

Related Grants

Reducing the Impacts of Rural Sprawl on Wildlife Habitat, Year 1
Year: 2011
Region: Southwest
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) will hire Sarah Reed as Project Leader for the Western Private Lands and Connectivity Conservation Project, building on work Sarah has already done with WCS through her David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship . Sarah's participation in the project...Read more >
Brownfields Redevelopment and Green Design in Dorchester, Year 2
Year: 2008
Region: New England
To provide a second year of funding to allow Beverly Craig to build on the work she accomplished during the first year of her Leadership Grant collaboration with Dorchester Bay EDC, working on brownfields redevelopment and green building, as well as assisting the organization in developing a policy...Read more >
Headlands Institute, Sustainable Campus Project, Year 3
Year: 2007
Region: California
This grant provides a third and final year of support for Steve Rasmussen Cancian’s role in the Yosemite National Institutes/Headlands Institute Sustainable Campus Project as landscape designer and to serve as Coordinator of the Environmental Assessment phase of the project. During the first...Read more >

Featured Fellows

Martha Matsuoka
Martha Matsuoka
2001 Fellow
Associate Professor/Executive Director, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute
Occidental College
Brian Bowen
Brian Bowen
2014 Fellow
Director, Commercial Sector
StreetLight
Jia-Ching Chen
Jia-Ching Chen
2013 Fellow
Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies
University of California Santa Barbara

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