{"title":"The Global Urban Humanities Initiative:Engaging the humanities and environmental design in pedagogical innovation","authors":"Jennifer Wolch, A. Cascardi","doi":"10.5070/BP326118215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/BP326118215","url":null,"abstract":"A new initiative to better integrate methods and theories from the humanities with those from the fields of environmental design is being launched at the University of California, Berkeley. The project, known as the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, will bring faculty, graduate students, practitioners and critics together over three years through a series of methods workshops, theory courses, and research studios examining three Pacific Rim cities. This article examines the history of the interaction of the humanities, social science and design and planning disciplines in teaching and practice and describes the pedagogical and research experiments planned for the project.","PeriodicalId":39937,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Planning Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5070/BP326118215","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70704298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Clark, Miriam Aranoff, E. Lavine, K. Suteethorn
{"title":"LEED for Neighborhood Development: Does it Capture Livability?","authors":"H. Clark, Miriam Aranoff, E. Lavine, K. Suteethorn","doi":"10.5070/BP326115820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/BP326115820","url":null,"abstract":"LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) is a fairly new system for rating neighborhoods on the sustainability of their design and planning. This study examines LEED-ND’s criteria for Neighborhood Pattern and Design, starting from the hypothesis that these standards fall short of capturing the livability of a place as perceived by its residents. Noe Street in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood of San Francisco serves as the study site. Field measurements show that Noe Street is ineligible for LEED-ND certification. Survey results show that a majority of residents find it highly livable, nonetheless. When asked to consider life on their street, residents put different emphasis on what makes a neighborhood livable than the LEED-ND standards.","PeriodicalId":39937,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Planning Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5070/BP326115820","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70703620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More Than “Not Urban”: Seeking a Quantifiable Definition of Rural","authors":"Ruth Miller","doi":"10.5070/BP326117853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/BP326117853","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Miller, Ruth | Abstract: Traditionally, planners focus on urban areas, though a significant portion of the U.S. population and most of its land are rural. Existing federal and state definitions of \"rural\" conflict, inadequately distinguishing these areas, and obfuscating their challenges and opportunities. By developing a clear understanding of what makes a community rural, including a quantifiable and map-able definition, planners will be better prepared to improve outcomes in both rural and urban areas.","PeriodicalId":39937,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Planning Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5070/BP326117853","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70704077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shrinking Cities: Fuzzy Concept or Useful Framework?","authors":"A. Olsen","doi":"10.5070/BP326115821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/BP326115821","url":null,"abstract":"Shrinking cities beset with sustained population losses have been the focus of a number of studies in the past decade. Much progress has been made in charting where they are and what cause them, but we are still at a point where more detailed case studies are needed for specificity and local context, keeping commonalities in mind but recognizing the crucial situational differences in how differently cities are situated. Per the observation that the term of shrinkage has been used for cities as diverse as Flint, MI and San Jose, CA, we will critically reflect on the concept of shrinking cities and argue how recognition of heterogeneity must be a starting point for any discussion of both analytical relevance and policy formulation.","PeriodicalId":39937,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Planning Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5070/BP326115821","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70703759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking Back: Perspectives From Five Former BPJ Editors - eScholarship","authors":"J. Wegmann","doi":"10.5070/bp325112499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/bp325112499","url":null,"abstract":"Five former BPJ Managing Editors weigh in on their experiences with the BPJ and what they meant to them, and their opinions on the role of student journals in general.","PeriodicalId":39937,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Planning Journal","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5070/bp325112499","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70703975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housing Policy, Neighborhood Development, and Civic Participation in Cuba: The Social Microbrigades of Santa Clara","authors":"Benedikt Brester","doi":"10.5070/bp325111715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/bp325111715","url":null,"abstract":"The article will introduce the reader to the Cuban situation concerning neighborhood development, civic participation, and housing policy. Its intention is to demonstrate a concept of government-introduced self-help housing in Cuba called microbrigades, using case study analysis of Santa Clara, Cuba. Comparing Cuban microbrigades with other self-help housing projects from different countries highlights the particularities of this extraordinary concept.","PeriodicalId":39937,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Planning Journal","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5070/bp325111715","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70703398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Just Growth: Inclusion and Prosperity in America’s Metropolitan Regions by Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor - eScholarship","authors":"Chris Schildt","doi":"10.5070/BP325112311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/BP325112311","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Schildt, Chris | Abstract: A review of Benner and Pastor's most recent book on economic growth and social equity.","PeriodicalId":39937,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Planning Journal","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70703533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Takes on Sunbelt Urbanism: Bird on Fire by Andrew Ross, and Beyond Privatopia by Evan McKenzie","authors":"J. Wegmann","doi":"10.5070/bp325111983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/bp325111983","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Wegmann, Jake | Abstract: A review of two recent books on the rapidly growing cities of the American southwest.","PeriodicalId":39937,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Planning Journal","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5070/bp325111983","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70703505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Case Against Statistics-as-Methods: Confessions of a Born-Again Planmaker","authors":"J. Landis","doi":"10.5070/BP33213183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/BP33213183","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Landis, John | Abstract: I n most planning programs, \"methods\" mean statistics. I n a 1 983 survey of 71 North American planning schools, E.H. Baxter found that statistics, chiefly inferential statistics, formed the core component of first-year planning methods classes in almost all of the planning pro grams surveyed ( 1 983). What explains this popularity? Statistics, I sus pect, has much the same appeal as a succesfs ul political candidate - although exciting to only a few, it is nontheless acceptable to many.","PeriodicalId":39937,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Planning Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70705176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transportation Planning Under Two Masters: Citizen Participation, Planning Styles, and the Tunnel Road Controversy - eScholarship","authors":"J. Levine","doi":"10.5070/BP33213181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/BP33213181","url":null,"abstract":"Transportation planning, perhaps more than other areas of planning practice, suffers from a split identity. On the one hand it is an area in which engineering considerations frequently dominate, and many of its practitioners are in fact professional transportation engineers. On the other hand, it is a particularly politicized arena in which planners work, at least on the local level; virtually no planning issue can rally a neighborhood to political action as readily as a proposed freeway bisecting it. Even less controversial questions such as changes in bus service regularly elicit heated debate.","PeriodicalId":39937,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Planning Journal","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5070/BP33213181","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70705497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}