Architecture & Urban Design

• Designing Regional Parks for Civic Vitality and Sustainability
• Parks and open space planning for the public good (co-mentors: Judy Tjiong, Patrick McDonough)


• Greening of Buildings
• Green Building: Design Innovation and Implementation (mentor: Paul Linden)


• Urban Design Master Planning
• San Diego Architectural Foundation Built Environment Education Program (co-mentors: Wendy L. Tinsley, Leslee Shaffer)
• Select this team to indicate your interest in applying for the studio position at the New School of Architecture with Mike Stepner (application required)

Community & Economic Development

• Greening of Industry and Public Policy
• Greening of Business: Socio-economic and regulatory challenges (mentor: Patti Krebbs; research team supporters: Al Hurt, John Grosskopf, Jerome Jaminet)


• Community Quality of Life and Economic Development
There are no 2008-2009 Research Teams


• Equitable Redevelopment and Public Policy
• Inequality and public policy (mentor: Isaac Martin)
• Sustainable Development : Policy and planning challenges aimed at integrating social justice/equity, economic efficiency and environmental stewardship (co-mentors: Murtaza Baxamusa, Corinne Wilson, Donald Cohen)

Environment

• Environmental Justice
There are no 2008-2009 Research Teams


• Greening the University
• UCSD's carbon footprint and climate change: Initiatives involving renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation (co-mentors: John Dilliot, Julie Hampel).


• Climate Change: Responding at the local level
• Costs/Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Measures (mentor: Linda Pratt)


• Sustainability of Urban-Nature Ecosystems
• Nature Reserves and the city: Socio-technical challenges in the stewardship of urban-ecological systems (Mentor: Isabelle Kay; Research Team Supporter: Paul Dayton)


• Regional Integrated Watershed Management
• Chollas Creek Watershed: New approaches to integrated ecological planning and decision-making (mentors: Hiram Sarabia, John Robertus)
• Regionalizing urban watershed management planning (mentors: Hiram Sarabia, John Robertus)


• Coastal Zones and Ocean Management
• Ocean Management in Coastal Zones: Socio-Technical and Legal-Institutional Challenges (mentor: Carl Nettleton)

Housing

• Affordable Housing
• Affordable Housing: Programmatic and Architectural Design Challenges (mentor: Betsy Morris, research team supporter: Jeff Tayman, Mirle Bussell)
• Affordable housing: Socio-economic Impacts (mentor: Ken Grimes, research team supporter: Nico Calavita, Mirle Bussell)

Infrastructure and Public Facilities

• Green Infrastructure for Sustainable City-Regions
• San Diego River Park: A case study in valuing green infrastructure (mentor: Rob Hutzel)


• Sustainable Energy and Environmental Monitoring
• Greening of energy production and policy (mentors: Rich Caputo, Jake King)


• Cyberinfrastructure
• Information and communication technology: The 4th wave in use of computers and the internet for urban and regional planning (mentors: Jeff Tayman, Ilya Zaslavsky; research team supporter: David Schkade)

Public Health, Safety and Welfare

• Crime and the City
• Crime and the City: New approaches in theory and practice (mentor: Julie Wartell)


• Education and Equity
• Innovation in educational policy and planning: Case studies (mentor: Rafael Hernandez)


• Quality of Life, Public Health and Welfare
• Emergency Preparedness and Community Well Being
• Improving Public Health and Community Well Being: The Diamond District Colaboratory (mentor: Sukumar Srinivas, research team supporter: David Cleveland)

Transportation Planning

• Transportation Equity
• Inequalities in Transportation Planning (mentor: Connery Cepeda; research team supporter: Carolyn Chase)


• Promoting Bicycling and Walking
• Colina Park Mobility Planning (mentor: Kerry Sheldon, research team supporter: Andy Hamilton)

Tribal Policy and Planning

• Improving Tribal Environmental Health Through Collaboration
• Empowering Tribes Through Collaboration: Environmental Health Policies and Ordinances (mentor: Paula Stigler)


• Tribal Environmental Health Science and Technology
• Tribal Environmental Health Assessment for the San Diego Region (mentor: Hiram Sarabia)

Urban and Regional Planning

• Climate Change and Natural Disasters
• Low-lying coastal zones and risks posed by climate change (mentor: TBD)


• Regional Comprehensive Planning
• The Regional Comprehensive Plan: Barriers and Bridges to Implementation (mentor: Bob Leiter)


• Community and Regional Food Planning
• Foodshed Mapping (co-mentors: Julie Osborn, Jonathan Reinbold, Elle Igoe; research team supporter: Mary Lydon)


• Multiculturalism and the City
• Ethnic diversity and social change (mentor: TBD, research team supporter: April Linton)


• Community Mapping and Comparative City Planning Analysis
• The science of land use planning: Using data to craft and evaluate alternate versions of projects and plans and to monitor implementation (co-mentors: Toni Dillon, Samir Hajjiri, Jacques Chirazi) .

US-Mexico Border Planning

• Transborder City-Region Planning and Development
• New Regionalism and Global Environmental Health: Challenges posed by transboundary flows of material, energy and knowledge (mentor: Hiram Sarabia, Carlos Graizbord)


• Planning for Sustainable Human Settlements
• Environmental health and the built environment: An analysis of low-income housing development along the US-Mexico border (mentors: Oscar Romo, Hiram Sarabia)
• Laureles Canyon, Tijuana: A case study focused on alternative community-based solutions to urban and environmental health problems (mentors: Hiram Sarabia, Oscar Romo)