Recent News
Feb 19 2019
Joe Kott, longtime instructor of transportation planning in the Urban Studies program at Stanford, died of a heart attack on February 14 at his home in Oakland; he was 71.
Sep 12 2018 | Center for East Asian Studies News
Sungmoon Lim, a member of the Urban Studies class of 2018, received the 7th annual Korea Program Prize for Writing in Korea Studies. The prize was awarded for her honors thesis, "Urban Design in the Age of Globalization: An Analysis of the Global Reception of Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon Stream...
Mar 27 2018 | Stanford News Service
Urban Studies faculty affiliate Clayton Nall's new book traces the impact of the federal highway system on American cities. Entitled The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities, the book argues that interstate highways helped erect divisions...
Nov 30 2017
Urban Studies senior Jacqui Ramos participated in the 23rd Annual California Transportation Foundation (CTF) Transportation Education Symposium at the Lake Arrowhead Resort on November 2 and 3. The Symposium brings together 38 students from across the state with a like number of high-level...
Nov 30 2017
Over 40 Urban Studies alumni attended the Urban Studies mini-reunion during reunion-homecoming weekend at Stanford in October. Alumni saw old friends and made new connections over food and wine in the Mendenhall Library, in building 120 on the Main Quad. Among the special guests this year were...
