Grand Challenges and Research | Urban Studies & Planning

Research Portfolios by AOC

Architecture and Urban Design

• Brigitte Ngo
  UC San Diego: A Living Lab for Green Technology Programs
• Sheila Binesh
  Community Empowerment through Design
• SungWook Ku
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• Alexa-Rae Navarro
  Understanding the Link Between Urban Design and Imageability
• Kathryn Ward
  LEED: Universal or Controversial? Exploring LEED’s Geographic Inequalities.
• Brigitte Ngo
  Greening of Buildings: Sustainable Living
• Alexander Jung
  The Built Enviroment and Sociological Effects
• Ashley Shelburne
  Understanding the relationship between parks and their locality

Community and Economic Development

• Maurice Junious
  Power Structures in Urban Planning: Using an Information System of Plans Approach to foster Sustaina
• Amar Sidhu
  Which is your Wich?
• Kevin Clark
  The Main Street Approach to Community Revitalization
• Chantal Alfaro
  Mining Fever and its second-hand effects on the Peruvian Community
• Jillian Wolter
  Transportation solutions for future generations of students
• Deborah Hayman
  Final: Tourism and Entrepreneurship: Methods for Economic Diversification in Central Appalachia
• ENRIQUE REYNOSO
  Gentrification and Historic Preservation in Broadway Historic District
• ENRIQUE REYNOSO
  Gentrification and Historic Preservation in Broadway Historic District
• Matthew Goldblatt
  Nonprofit Leadership Skills Analysis
• Harrison Lau
  Alternative Food Systems and the Barriers they Face
• Saynab Dahir
  Community Engagement: A One-Size Fits All Strategy?
• Samuel Lyon
  The Order of the Farm
• Melanie Tylke
  Brownfield Revitalization and its effects on Social Equity
• Yu Lim Cho
  Housing Inequality by Economic Crisis
• Iris Loughran
  Progressive redevelopment- Community based planning for equitable Redevelopment
• Carline Au
  Community Gardens: A study and analysis on strategies for refugee and immigrant empowerment
• Kevin Clark
  The Economic and Social Impact of Small Business
• John Pham
  How to Create a Resilient City
• David Pham
  Striving to Provide Care for People With Mental Disability Through Community
• Faith Swickard
  A policy of reinvesting into the city with a focus of sustainable living and housing
• Tarisai Kuvhenguhwa
  Legal Representation’s Role in Eminent Domain Litigation: Abused, Misused, or Merely Misunderstood?
• Stephanie Phelan
  Economic Viability of Farmers Markets in San Diego
• Julie Nelson
  Media and Social Movements
• Majna Dukic
  Deciding our Future
• Lauren Smyle
  BID Compensation for the Elimination of CCDC
• Shelby Cramton
  Commercial Food Recycling
• Kimberly Tran
  The Expensive Melting Pot

Environment

• Dana Roth
  Landscaping for Life
• Amanjot Dhaliwal
  Costs, Incentives, & Marketing of Green Infrastructure.
• Caitlin Jafolla
  Water Harvesting to Support Community Gardens
• Samuel Lee
  Managing and Reducing Waste in SD
• Karina Sandique
  Alternative Energy/Energy & Waste Management
• Deborah Hayman
  Draft: Serengeti National Park, Ecotourism, and the Maasai
• Ashley Gee
  Food Justice: Going Back to Roots
• Henry Pan
  Interplay of Wind Pattern and Topography on Air Pollution Dispersion in the San Francisco Bay Area

Housing

• Jacqueline Adelchanow
  Military’s Effect on Housing Prices
• Jefferson Isai Rosa
  Financing Sustainable-Affordable Housing - Portfolio
• Melissa Seminaro
  An Uncertain Fate: Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Fund
• Joyce Slen
  The Journey to Homeownership for Chinese Americans in San Francisco
• Adam Atamian
  Understanding Integrated Affordable Housing Programs
• James Bryce
  Understanding the Socio-Economic Impact of Affordable Housing in San Diego County

Infrastructure and Public Facilities

• Linda Vo
  Strategic Improvement on Street Maintenance: A Case Study of San Diego “Street Division”
• Regina Ochoa
  An Aging Population: A Study into the Needs of a Population Aging in the Suburbs
• Justin Scholey
  Managed Competition Reconsidered: An evaluation of San Diego’s push towards municipal privatization
• Ryan Agbayani
  Nuclear (public)Reaction
• Troy Souther
  Drinking Water Analysis: Sourcing Options for Filtered Water
• Robert Hanifin
  Bringing the Public Back to Public Spaces

Public Health, Safety and Welfare

• Manasi Ghatge
  Improving the Education of Good Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle Choices to Prevent Chronic Diseases
• Paul Chung
  Are we we zoning for obesity in San Diego?
• Paul Chung
  Are we zoning low-income communities for obesity in San Diego?
• Brensie De Leon
  Promoting local health, safety, and welfare within our communities
• Christopher Geronimo
  The Impact of Food Insecurity on Public Health
• Elizabeth Dallman
  Sustainability and Community Gardens
• Ryan Allred
  Emergency Room Overcrowding: Are free clinics the answer we’ve been looking for?
• Monica Pearce
  The IMPACT-ED Program and the Overcrowding of Emergency Departments in San Diego
• Sandra Yang
  The Language Barrier; Bridging the gap between Patients and Health Care Professionals
• Maurice Junious
  Examining the inpact of revitalization on health care accessibility for low income residents
• Cecilia Aldana
  Improving Outcomes for Emancipated Foster Youth: An analysis of current strategies & implementations

Transportation Planning

• Aaron Pacetti
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• Priscilla Kwong
  Fixed-Route Transit: Accessibility for Senior Citizens
• Jonathan Yang
  The Sustainability Complex
• Dianne Yee
  Implementing Bicycle Infrastructure in San Diego
• Kenton Trinh
  Privatization of Public Transit in Japan
• Emily Tracy
  Pedestrian Crossing Behavior in Marked versus Unmarked Crosswalks
• Kathryn Turner
  Addressing Transportation Equity in San Diego: An analysis of accessibility and affordability
• Brianne Masukawa
  Completing the Street
• Jaimie Ngan
  Transporting Toward an Equitable Community

Tribal Policy and Planning

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Urban and Regional Planning

• Vanessa Sandoval
  Engaging Underrepresented Groups in Civic Environmentalism: Comparing Non-Profit Best-Practices
• Jenny Lee
  Environmental Justice/Regional Equity Advisory Councils in MPOs: Case Studies of Best Practices
• Siroun Kaloustian
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US-Mexico Border Planning

• Alexander Jung
  Improving Mexico’s Built Environment: Achieving Community Involvement
• Araceli Saucedo
  Building Assets by Community Mobilization in US-Mexico Border Regions
• Alexander Jung
  Improving Mexico’s Built Environment: Achieving Community Involvement
• Araceli Saucedo
  Building Assets by Community Mobilization in US-Mexico Border Regions

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