First in a New Series: IURD Policy Overviews Sustainable Economic Development Prepared by Alea Gage and Anthony LoPresti with Cecilia Estolano, Karen Chapple and Michelle Wilde Anderson. Findings and recommendations from a November 18, 2011 roundtable following the conference in downtown Berkeley, Sustainable Economic Development Strategies in Lean Fiscal Times, the second in the three-part series, Urban Housing Economy and Transit.

Plan-it sustainably: The challenge of community ecological-economic sustainable development By Scott T. Edmondson, AICP, and Katja Irvin, AICP. Coverage of Sustainable Economic Development Strategies in Lean Fiscal Times, the second in the three-part series, Urban Housing Economy and Transit. In February 2012 Northern News, publication of the Northern Section of the California Chapter of the APA.

Opportunity-Rich Schools and Sustainable Communities: Seven Steps to Align High-Quality Education with Innovations in City and Metropolitan Planning and Development: Center for Cities and Schools Webinar.

Policy Brief from 2011 I. Donald Terner Memorial Roundtable: Affordable Housing Policy Brief by Jake Wegmann

Policy Brief Connecting Cairo to the Nile: Renewing Life and Heritage on the River by Rachael Marzion, G. Mathias Kondolf, Louise Mozingo, and Amir Gohar

Policy Brief from Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Big Ideas for Job Creation by States and Cities by Karen Chapple and Robert P. Giloth

Report from Center for Community Innovation: Yes in My Backyard: Mobilizing the Market for Secondary Units by Karen Chapple, Jake Wegmann, Alison Nemirow and Colin Dentel-Post

In-law units sought to help population boom Secondary units explained by Karen Chapple on KGO-TV (video).

Karen Chapple on Tiny Houses as Affordable Housing from "Tiny Houses-the Movie"

IURD Welcomes 13 Visiting Scholars for Fall 2011 The countries they come from include Brazil, China, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Japan and the U.S.

Robert Cervero Appointed Inaugural Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies It is endowed by a $1 million gift from Carmel P. and Howard R. Friesen, matched by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Karen Chapple's "Hidden Density" featured in the SPUR blog: 4 BART Stations, 1,000 New Houses, 0 Added Footprint

Visiting Scholars Roundtables Spring 2012 Series

General Poster

**This series has ended - please look forward to upcoming information about our Fall 2012 series.

Urban Housing Economy & Transit

Confronting a Crisis: A Conference Series on Sustainability

This conference series highlights state-of-the-art initiatives to plan the sustainable cities of the future. Three conferences bring together leading practitioners, top academics, and high-ranking state and federal government officials to discuss the barriers to implementing energy efficiency in the residential sector, more sustainable economic development and fiscal practices, and transportation innovations that will reduce its environmental footprint. The conferences are open to the public and will culminate in the production of policy briefs that summarize the discussions and provide action steps to policymakers.

Conference 3. Sustainable Mobility & Cities: Marrying Technology and Policy: February 23, 2012

Sponsored by the Ted and Doris Lee Fund at the College of Environmental Design and the Boalt School of Law, managed by the Institute of Urban & Regional Development. Individual conferences organized by the Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, the Institute of Urban & Regional Development, and the University of California Transportation Center.

It is the third and final conference in the series, Sustainable Economic Development Strategies in Lean Fiscal Times. It is organized by the University of California Transportation Center and sponsored by the Ted and Doris Lee Fund at the College of Environmental Design and the Boalt School of Law of UC Berkeley, managed by the Institute of Urban & Regional Development. The conference focuses on key policy debates and opportunities for using technology to improve our transportation system and cities. Registration closed.

Featured Faculty Research

IURD Faculty Affiliate and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Chair

Matt Kondolf

Connecting Cairo to the Nile: Renewing Life and Heritage on the River

Cairo, one of the densest cities in the world, struggles with many urban planning challenges, including heavy traffic, air pollution, a large informal housing sector, and lack of recreational and open green space for its many residents. The city has remarkable opportunities to reconnect its people with the river through increased access to the waterfront, environmental improvements, pedestrian pathways, and attractive public spaces. Except for a few heavily-used areas of public access, the banks of the Nile are currently off-limits for most citizens because of private and military uses. Reclaiming the banks of the Nile for the people of Cairo will provide much-needed green space and make the river once again the heart of this dynamic and richly-textured city.

Podcasts, Slides and Summary Report from the Seminar Series: Infilling California Tools and Strategies for Infill Development

Sponsored by the Center for a Sustainable California and IURD, and co-sponsored by the Urban Land Institute of San Francisco, the Association of Bay Area Governments, the California Infill Builders Association, and the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment at BerkeleyLaw.