Presented by the UCLA Department of Urban Planning and the Lewis Center, “The Harvey S. Perloff lectures on the Future of Urban Planning” is a yearlong speaker series focused on the major urban planning issues facing cities today.

The lecture series, which honors planning pioneer and longtime UCLA Dean Harvey S. Perloff, includes a diverse array of urban, regional and planning scholars reflecting on what they see as the most vexing issues and questions confronting cities and regions over the next decade, and the types and methods of planning research needed to address them.

The series, which runs through spring of 2011, includes talks from Manuel Pastor, professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California, Nisha Botchwey,  associate professor of urban planning at the University of Virginia, and Alan Altshuler, distinguished service professor of urban policy and planning at the Kennedy School and Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, among others.

The goal of the series is to begin a conversation among faculty and students on the most important intellectual questions facing the field of urban planning over the coming decade.

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