City and Regional Planning

University of California, Berkeley

Overview

The mission of the Department of City and Regional Planning is to improve equity, the economy and the environment in neighborhoods, communities, cities, and metropolitan regions by creating knowledge and engagement through our teaching, research, and service. We aim to design and create cities, infrastructure, and public services that are sustainable, affordable, enjoyable, and accessible to all.

Wisely and successfully intervening in the public realm, whether locally, nationally, or globally, is a challenge. Our urban future is complex and rapidly changing. Resource scarcity and conflict, technological innovation, retrofitting of existing built environments, and social empowerment will alter the ways in which planning has conventionally been carried out. We believe the planning academy has a special responsibility to always address social justice, equity, and ethics; to teach and research means of public participation, collective decision making, and advocacy; and to focus on reforming institutions, urban governance, policy, and planning practices to make these goals possible.

Our undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as faculty research and community service activities, address social justice, equity, and ethics; innovative means of public participation, collective decision making, and advocacy; and ways to reform institutions, urban governance, policy, and planning practices. Faculty research harnesses the latest methods and data, ranging from ethnography to sophisticated 3-D simulations and visualization. Faculty expertise is diverse and includes sustainable transportation and land use, economic development, urban health and social policy, environmental assessment and sustainability, global urbanization and poverty, and urban design for livable places.

Lecture Series

The Department of City and Regional Planning sponsors lecture series, which offers students the opportunity to hear internationally acclaimed speakers. These speakers often also participate in classes and seminars as part of their visit to campus. For a schedule of speakers and events in this lecture series, see the College of Environmental Design website.

Undergraduate Programs

Urban Studies: BA
City Planning: Minor
Geospatial Information Science and Technology:  Minor (offered in conjunction with the College of Natural Resources)

Graduate Programs

City and Regional Planning: Master of City Planning (MC.P.), and Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning

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Courses

City and Regional Planning

Contact Information

Department of City and Regional Planning

228 Bauer Wurster Hall

Phone: 510-642-3256

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Department Chair, Perloff Family Chair in City & Regional Planning

Daniel Chatman

dcrpchair@berkeley.edu

PhD Head Graduate Advisor, Professor, Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies

Teresa Caldeira

tcaldeira@berkeley.edu

MCP Head Graduate Advisor, I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor

Carolina Reid

c_reid@berkeley.edu

Graduate Advisor (M.C.P. and Ph.D.)

Lindsay Huysentruyt

lhuysentruyt@berkeley.edu

Undergraduate Major Head, Minor Program Faculty Advisor

Sai Balakrishnan

sbalakrishnan@berkeley.edu

CED Undergraduate Advising

Undergraduate Student Advisors

250 Bauer Wurster Hall

cedadvising@berkeley.edu

Director, Office of Undergraduate Advising

Omar Ramirez

oramirez@berkeley.edu

CED Career Services

Dinorah Meyer

http://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/students/career/

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