Category Archives: Planning
Masters Thesis: Achievement Unlocked
45 pages. 13,283 words. 28 tables and figures. I submitted my masters thesis today, a full five months before anyone else in my department. Overachiever much? Behold: Beyond “Urban” Planning: An Overview of Challenges Unique to Planning in Rural California.
Masters Thesis: Achievement Unlocked
45 pages. 13,283 words. 28 tables and figures. I submitted my masters thesis today, a full five months before anyone else in my department. Overachiever much? Behold: Beyond “Urban” Planning: An Overview of Challenges Unique to Planning in Rural California.
Video Abstract
I’ve been taking and loving a course in Visual Notetaking this semester. One of our weekly assignments was to record ourselves live drawing a topic. The undergrads illustrated Taylor Swift songs. I illustrated my thesis. To each his own. Enjoy:
Video Abstract
I’ve been taking and loving a course in Visual Notetaking this semester. One of our weekly assignments was to record ourselves live drawing a topic. The undergrads illustrated Taylor Swift songs. I illustrated my thesis. To each his own. Enjoy:
Planner Ipsum
Normative theory county bike feng shui. Finally, a lorem ipsum text generator for planners! This one skews heavily towards California’s particular oddities and rural topics, but should entertain and fascinate your client the next time you’re lightly cajoled into building
Planner Ipsum
Normative theory county bike feng shui. Finally, a lorem ipsum text generator for planners! This one skews heavily towards California’s particular oddities and rural topics, but should entertain and fascinate your client the next time you’re lightly cajoled into building
Pencils and Markers
Sometimes, being a city planning masters student really rocks. I have competent undergrads to collect my field data. I get to make maps and spreadsheets to my heart’s content. And when all that gets old, I get to break out
Pencils and Markers
Sometimes, being a city planning masters student really rocks. I have competent undergrads to collect my field data. I get to make maps and spreadsheets to my heart’s content. And when all that gets old, I get to break out
Cross-Disciplinary Fun
The Berkeley Energy Resource Collaborative hosts a poster competition with fabulous prizes each year. Last month, my dear friend (and Nature-published microbiology post doc) invited me to collaborate on a poster. Between several rounds of text messaging and emails, and
Cross-Disciplinary Fun
The Berkeley Energy Resource Collaborative hosts a poster competition with fabulous prizes each year. Last month, my dear friend (and Nature-published microbiology post doc) invited me to collaborate on a poster. Between several rounds of text messaging and emails, and
Visual Thesising
I’ve averaged 500 words a day since class started last week. Here are some of the other bits I’m proud of. Why HSR Property Owner Compensation is Disputed This is part of why farmers in the Central Valley are opposed
Visual Thesising
I’ve averaged 500 words a day since class started last week. Here are some of the other bits I’m proud of. Why HSR Property Owner Compensation is Disputed This is part of why farmers in the Central Valley are opposed
Occupy Gentrification
This Tuesday, parts of Occupy Oakland marched against gentrification. It wasn’t a successful march (the bocce ball courts at Make Westing are still crowded with hipsters), and as one reporter noted, the march wasn’t particularly representative of the people usually
Occupy Gentrification
This Tuesday, parts of Occupy Oakland marched against gentrification. It wasn’t a successful march (the bocce ball courts at Make Westing are still crowded with hipsters), and as one reporter noted, the march wasn’t particularly representative of the people usually
Transit Pricing
“What if BART charged the same price for every trip?” * “How much money would BART have to charge to have a 100% farebox recovery?” ** These are the sort of random questions my friends asked me in the last
Transit Pricing
“What if BART charged the same price for every trip?” * “How much money would BART have to charge to have a 100% farebox recovery?” ** These are the sort of random questions my friends asked me in the last
Posters and Presentations
My presentation on Oakland’s parklet program won an honor prize at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design’s “Circus”. Not a bad practice run for the APA conference in April. Update: I won the top poster prize. Cool. To celebrate,
Posters and Presentations
My presentation on Oakland’s parklet program won an honor prize at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design’s “Circus”. Not a bad practice run for the APA conference in April. Update: I won the top poster prize. Cool. To celebrate,
MIT and Newton County, together again
My four-post series on MIT’s Community Innovator’s Lab on Newton County, Georgia and its comprehensive planning process.
MIT and Newton County, together again
My four-post series on MIT’s Community Innovator’s Lab on Newton County, Georgia and its comprehensive planning process.