The City and Regional Planning Department promotes sustainable and diverse communities within cultural and human systems. Faculty research reflects the program's strengths in urban design, transportation, land use and environmental planning, and community sustainability.
To view hands-on studio work, projects and applied scholarship of the City and Regional Planning undergraduate and graduate programs, please visit City and Regional Planning Studios and Projects.
Modified from planning.calpoly.edu
Submissions from 2006
System Plan for California's Bay Area Regional Express Bus Service, Elizabeth Deakin, Manish Shirgaokar, Cornelius K. Nuworsoo, Aaron Golub, Jean Finney, Wingate Lew, Becky Frank, Chris Cherry, Nathan Higgins, Elihu Rubin, Thomas Valentin, Kamala Parks, Willa Ng, and Deborah Wong
Cost per User as Key Factor in Project Prioritization: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area, Cornelius K. Nuworsoo, Kamala Parks, and Elizabeth Deakin
Planning for Water Quality: Implementation of the NPDES Phase II Stormwater Program in California and Kansas, Stacey Swearingen White and Michael R. Boswell
Submissions from 2005
Hosting an International Conference on Women and Shelter: Pedagogic and Logistical Insights, Hemalata C. Dandekar and Sujata Shetty
Beyond Brasilia - Contemporary Urban Design in Brazil, Vicente del Rio
Deep Discount Group Pass Programs: Innovative Transit Finance, Cornelius Nuworsoo
Discounting Transit Passes, Cornelius K. Nuworsoo
Village Homes, Davis, California: A Learning Lab for Future Planners, Paul Wack
Submissions from 2004
Review of The Disappearing Asian City: Protecting Asia's Urban Heritage in a Globalizing World by William S. Logan, Hemalata C. Dandekar
Women, Food and the Sustainable Economy: A Simple Relationship, Hemalata C. Dandekar
The Image of the Waterfront in Rio de Janeiro: Urbanism and Social Representation of Reality, Nara Iwata and Vicente del Rio
Deep Discount Group Pass Programs as Instruments for Increasing Transit Revenue and Ridership, Cornelius K. Nuworsoo
New Zealand's Search for Sustainability: Ideas for California Planning, Paul Wack
Submissions from 2003
Review of Human Ecology: Following Nature's Lead by Frederick Steiner, Michael R. Boswell
Submissions from 2002
Can Sustainability be Sustained? Review of Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformation in Environmental Policy by Danial A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft, Michael R. Boswell
Reverse Commuting and Job Access in California: Markets, Needs and Policy Prospects, Robert Cervero, Yu-Hsin Tsai, Joulia Dibb, Andrew Kluter, Cornelius K. Nuworsoo, Irina Petrova, M. Reinur Pohan, Martin Wachs, and Elizabeth Deakin
Rural Planning: General, Hemalata C. Dandekar
A Model for Undergraduate Study in Urban Design, Brian Kesner, Lise Burcher, Maurice Nelischer, and Vicente del Rio
Submissions from 2001
MSRDC and Mumbai-Pune Expressway: A Sustainable Model for Privatising Construction of Physical Infrastructure?, Hemalata C. Dandekar and Sulakshana Mahajan
The Performance of Urban Form in the Construction of a Place: Quality of Design in a 1930's Residential Area in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vicente del Rio
Submissions from 2000
The Legacy of Modern Urbanism in Brazil: Paradigm turned reality or unfinished project?, Vicente del Rio and Haroldo Gallo
Submissions from 1999
A Quantitative Method for Estimating Probable Public Costs of Hurricanes, Michael R. Boswell, Robert E. Deyle, Richard A. Smith, and E. Jay Baker
A Model to Minimize Non-Revenue Costs In Bus Transit Operations, Cornelius Nuworsoo