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Events
September
24
Kick off the new academic year with Urban Studies!
Join us for a Welcome Back Lunch on Thursday, September 24, from…
October
29
Please join us for the 20th annual Model Scholar lecture featuring John R. Logan of Brown University.
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October
29
Join Urban Studies for the 20th Annual Model Scholar Lecture featuring John R. Logan, sociology professor at Brown University
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News
September 4, 2026
Jackelyn Hwang, Sociology professor and interim director for the Program on Urban Studies, combines AI and Google Street View to measure quality-of-life features to analyze gentrification, racial equity, and overall residential well-being.
September 1, 2026
A new study led by Urban Studies Faculty Director and Sociology Professor Forrest Stuart, finds that deploying unarmed safety practitioners to high-crime intersections can reduce behavioral-health related crime.
August 16, 2026
Interim Urban Studies director Jackelyn Hwang was recognized as one of the leading individual contributors in the Computational Social Science Rankings.
What is Urban Studies?
An interdisciplinary, undergraduate program at Stanford that combines academic approaches with real-world experience to understand cities.
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