Social Justice at DUPSA
Below are a few examples of how social justice is an integral part of USC Price’s Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis.
The Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis is committed to infusing social justice into all that we do. Several years ago, we came together as faculty, staff and students with a unified goal to overhaul our department and expand this core value into more classes, initiatives, student organizations, and more. Today, we build upon our successful track record thus far and rededicate our intention to continue growing.
Example Courses:
PPDE 664 – Seminar in Social Justice and Public Policy
PPD 616 – Participatory Methods in Planning and Policy
PPDE 661 – Methods for Equity Analysis
PPD 606 – Urban Health Policy
PPD 686 – U.S. Immigration Policy
PPDE 630 – Community Health Planning
PPDE 663 – Media for Policy Change
PPDE 636 – Urban Spatial Ethnography and Critical Cartography
Social Justice masters certificate program.
Faculty Research
Restorative Justice Planning theory, Lisa Schweitzer:Schweitzer, L., Restorative planning ethics: The therapeutic imagination and planning in public institutions; Planning Theory. doi:10.1177/147309521453962; 2014.
Environmental Justice and Transportation, Lisa Schweitzer:L Schweitzer, A Valenzuela Jr, Environmental injustice and transportation: the claims and the evidence, Journal of planning literature, 2004
Urban Food Deserts: David Sloane and Lavonna Lewis:Sloane, D. C., with Lewis, L. B., et al., Transforming the urban food desert from the grassroots up: A model for community change; Journal of Family and Community Health, 34 (S1), S92-S101; 2011.
Equitable Community EngagementSloane, D.C., Hawkins, B.M., Illum, J. Spindler, A., and Lewis, 2019. L.B. Can We Be Partners? Journal of the American Planning Association 85/3: 202-217.
Housing Discrimination and Social Media, Geoff Boeing:Boeing, G., Online Rental Housing Market Representation and the Digital Reproduction of Urban Inequality; Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(2), 449–468; 2020.
Anti-gentrification Strategies: Annette Kimwith Jonathan Crisman. 2019. “Property Outlaws in the Southland: The Potentials and Limits of Guerrilla Urbanism in the Cases of Arts Gentrification in Boyle Heights and Street Vending Decriminalization in Los Angeles,” Urban Design International. 2019. doi.org/10.1057/s41289-019-00086-6
Transit access: Marlon Boarnet and Genevieve Giulianoand co-authors and Price Ph.D. alumni Yuting Hou and Eun-Jin Shin “First/Last Mile Transit Access as an Equity Planning Issue” Transportation Research A, Policy and Practice, vol. 103, pp. 296-310, 2017.
Gender disparities in transit use: Marlon BoarnetH-P Hsu, M. Boarnet, and D. Houston, “Gender and Transit Use: The Influence of Environmental Beliefs and Safety Concerns,” Transportation Research Record: The Journal of the Transportation Research Board, vol. 2673, issue 4, pp. 327-338, 2019.
Initiatives
RAP: Race, Arts, and Placemaking
Student Organizations
ASPD: Associated Students of Planning and Development
Price Latino Student Association
USC Price Resources
- Safe Communities Institute
“The Safe Communities Institute (SCI) at the USC Price School of Public Policy continues a more than 60-year tradition of research, interdisciplinary education, and collaboration to advance sustainable “whole-of-community” public safety strategies, policies, and programs. SCI takes a holistic approach to encouraging and informing public safety efforts through collaboration between all public safety disciplines and the communities they serve.”
