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L.A. parking reform pioneer remembered for humor, dedication | LAist
Donald Shoup, who used academic rigor and humor to find answers to this exact dilemma, died at home in Los Angeles in hospice care on Feb. 6 at age 86. Shoup was a professor emeritus of urban planning at UCLA, where he worked from 1974 to 2015. He influenced cities across the world to rethink how something as mundane as parking can revitalize urban life. (UCLA’s Michael Manville was quoted.)
Donald Shoup knew how to get cities going | The Economist
Of all the levels of the dismal science, his was the lowliest of all. At the very mention of the words “traffic” or “parking”, academics sniffed. What could be more trivial or uninteresting than jams on the freeway, or seas of near-identical cars in a Walmart lot? Merrily, [UCLA’s] Donald Shoup shook them off.
Even one person’s food choices affect the whole planet | Newsweek
[Commentary by UCLA’s Jennifer Jay, Shanna Shaked, Janet O’Shea and David Cleveland] As an interdisciplinary UCLA teaching team whose research focuses on the health, climate and environmental impacts of food systems; the environmental impact of animal agriculture; the structure of activism; and life cycle assessments, we disagree with the claim that “going vegan” is unimportant to the fight against environmental devastation.
As Trump targets research, scientists share grief, resolve | New York Times
“It’s like we’re getting hit from all sides,” said Roger Wakimoto, the vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Colleges, K-12 schools ordered to abolish DEI | Los Angeles Times
At UCLA, the Black Bruin Resource Center launched in 2020 to “uplift, support and inspire the UCLA Black and African Diaspora Community.” The campus also has a LatinX graduation — formerly Raza graduation — that started in 1973.
Trump testing post-Watergate checks on power | National Public Radio
The White House is arguing that because these watchdogs work in the executive branch, President Trump has the authority to fire them no matter what the laws written by Congress say. “Those are plausible legal arguments,” said Blake Emerson at UCLA [School of] Law. “They were not plausible legal arguments 20 years ago — but they are now.”
Reciprocal tariffs will overturn decades of trade policy | Associated Press
“The trade deficit is really a macroeconomic imbalance,” said Kimberly Clausing, a UCLA economist and former Treasury official. “It comes from this lack of desire to save and this lack of desire to tax. Until you fix those things, we’ll run a trade imbalance.”
A thriving Black community afraid of being ‘erased’ | The Guardian
“It’s very difficult to look away from the legacies of racial discrimination,” said Lorrie Frasure, a political science professor and one of the authors of a University of California, Los Angeles, report on how Altadena’s history contributed to the disproportionate destruction of Black homes in January’s fires.
For some L.A. wildfire survivors, rebuilding won’t be an option | NBC News
Early estimates of the total economic loss from the fires have soared to $250 billion. According to a recent economic impact study by the University of California, Los Angeles, areas near the burn zones could suffer wage losses of nearly $300 million because so many businesses were destroyed and few customers are around to patronize those that survived. (Also: Spectrum News 1.)
Tallying L.A.’s unhoused population after wildfires | LAist
“Most people who are homeless were last housed with someone else. They weren’t even renters, they were lodgers in someone else’s property,” said Gary Blasi, a law professor at UCLA.
Housing problems require a better solution than density | Los Angeles Times
As UCLA and London School of Economics professor Michael Storper’s research shows, forced densification is a “blunt instrument” that brings little in the way of substantial cost savings for housing.
A law change for manicurists prompts debate, confusion | Los Angeles Times
Lucero Herrera, a co-author of a UCLA Labor Center report on nail salon workers published last year, expressed concerns that the bill would represent a step back for manicurists.
Forgetting people’s names: a cause for concern? | Los Angeles Daily News
So, what can we do to remember people’s names? Dr. Gary Small, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and director [of the] UCLA Longevity Center gives us some direction in his book, “The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy to Keep Your Brain Young.”
Oscars rewind: How ‘American Beauty’ lost its luster | New York Times
“It was kind of a trope to talk about the hidden underbelly, like, ‘Oh, people aren’t actually happy with perfect lives, they’re actually secretly dissatisfied,’” said Gabriel Rossman, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose research addresses culture and mass media.
New York police charge five with murder of trans man | BBC News
A 2021 study released by University of California, Los Angeles, revealed that transgender people are over four times more likely than others to experience violence.
