USC Price School of Public Policy

Hilda Blanco

Hilda Blanco

Research Professor
Interim Director, Center for Sustainable Cities

Von Kleinsmid Center 370
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626

Phone: (213) 821-2431

Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning

University of California, Berkeley

Biographical sketch

Hilda Blanco is Research Professor and Interim Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities in the USC Price School. She is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Urban Design and Planning, where she served as Chair of the department from 2000-2007.

Dr. Blanco holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Classics from the City College of New York, a Masters in City and Regional Planning and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work focuses on climate change, urban growth management, brownfields policy, and decision-making and planning theories. She currently serves as a lead author focused on urban issues for the forthcoming (2014) U.N. International Panel on Climate Change’s global assessment, and for the U.S. National Climate Assessment (2013).

Her published works include How to Think About Social Problems: American Pragmatism and the Idea of Planning (Greenwood Press 1994), and recent articles in Progress in Planning, Journal of Emergency Management, Urban Studies, and Technology and Society. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of Progress in Planning and the Journal of Emergency Management.

Publications

  • H. Blanco, Public participation in neighborhood planning, a neglected aspect of community livability: The case of Seattle. In F. Wagner and R. Caves (Eds.); Community Liveability, In press, NY: Routledge; Forthcoming
  • H. Blanco (Lead Author), P. McCarney, S. Parnell, M.Schmidt, K. Seto, “Chapter 8. The Role of Urban Land in Climate Change” in C. Rozensweig, W. Solecki, and S. Hammer (Eds.); First Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities,Cambridge University Press, in press; 2011
  • P. McCarney (Lead Author). H. Blanco, J. Carmin, M. Colley, E. Fuchs, E. Ligeti, C. Natenson, M. Sch, “Chapter 9.Cities and Climate Change: the Challenges for Governance” in C. Rozensweig, W. Solecki, and S. Hammer (Eds.); First Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, in press; 2010

    Research centers

    • Center for Sustainable Cities

      The USC Center for Sustainable Cities conducts multidisciplinary research, education and planning and policy outreach efforts on the environmental, social and economic sustainability challenges facing metropolitan regions, and contributes to the development of public policy and planning that improves the natural and human environment of cities.

    Funded projects