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In a TedX talk at Stanford, Law School Professor and Urban Studies affiliated faculty member Richard Thompson Ford called for a new civil rights movement focused on "results," rather than "blame."

Photo courtesy of Sara Maurer

Urban Studies Major Sara Maurer '16 presented her research on bicycle share programs at the Transportation Research Board's Transportation for Sustainability Conference in Washington, DC.  Maurer carried out the research in Vienna, Austria…

Professor of Education Emerita Milbrey McLaughlin

Two Urban Studies affiliated faculty members were recently named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country's oldest and most prestigious learned societies.  They are:

Milbrey McLaughlin, founding director, John…

The Stanford Daily calls for service-learning to become an integral part of the university's undergraduate culture - occupying a position similar to the enormously popular Computer Science 106A in university life.  The article cites Urban…

Cars dominate the space on San Francisco's Cesar Chavez Street.

Aaron Bialick

Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities, a research and policy institute of which Urban Studies lecturer Joe Kott is a principal, has released the San Francisco Modal Equity Study.  The study reveals the extent to which funding…