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Duane teaches environmental planning and policy, infrastructure planning, environmental impacts of energy systems, land use planning, environmentally sustainable community development, and the impacts of urban development on fragile natural systems. He is particularly interested in how institutional structures can be modified to address competing social values. He is therefore studying law and legal institutions in greater detail, since they dominate decision-making in the modern administrative state. His primary institutional focus is domestic, but has also worked in or traveled in over thirty countries and has supervised graduate students in over a dozen other countries. He has published on a wide variety of topics from electricity regulation in California to community participation in ecosystems management.

Manuel Castells was one of the intellectual founders of what came to be known as the New Urban Sociology. His main publications in this field are The City and the Grassroots, a comparative study of urban social movements and community organizations based on his field work in France, Spain, Latin America, and California, that received the C.Wright Mills Award in 1983, and The Informational City (Blackwell, 1989), an analysis of the urban and regional changes brought about by information technology and economic restructuring in the United States. In 1983 Castells undertook the study of economic and social transformations associated with the information technology revolution. The results of this work were published in his trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Blackwell): 1st volume, The Rise of the Network Society (1996, revised edition 2000); 2nd volume, The Power of Identity (1997); 3rd volume, End of Millennium (1998, revised edition 2000). The trilogy is translated into Spanish, French, Swedish, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Croatian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and German. In 1998, Manuel Castells received the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association for his lifelong contribution in the field of community and urban sociology.

Manuel Castells was one of the intellectual founders of what came to be known as the New Urban Sociology. His main publications in this field are The City and the Grassroots, a comparative study of urban social movements and community organizations based on his field work in France, Spain, Latin America, and California, that received the C.Wright Mills Award in 1983, and The Informational City (Blackwell, 1989), an analysis of the urban and regional changes brought about by information technology and economic restructuring in the United States. In 1983 Castells undertook the study of economic and social transformations associated with the information technology revolution. The results of this work were published in his trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Blackwell): 1st volume, The Rise of the Network Society (1996, revised edition 2000); 2nd volume, The Power of Identity (1997); 3rd volume, End of Millennium (1998, revised edition 2000). The trilogy is translated into Spanish, French, Swedish, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Croatian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and German. In 1998, Manuel Castells received the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association for his lifelong contribution in the field of community and urban sociology.

In addition to being a professor of city planning, Elizabeth Deakin is Director of the University of California Transportation Center and a member of the affiliated faculty of Berkeley’s Master of Urban Design Program and the Energy and Resources Group. Her research and teaching are focused on transportation and land use planning and policy, institutions, and law, and environment and energy issues. Deakin has published widely on intelligent transportation systems, transportation pricing, and sustainable transportation fuels and technologies. Relevant publications include Sustainable Development and Sustainable Transportation: Strategies for Economic Prosperity, Environmental Quality, and Equity (IURD, 2003) and Metropolitan Profiles: Development Patterns, Socioeconomic Characteristics and Transit Use: 1960-1995 (IURD, 1997).

Ananya Roy is the author of City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and co-editor of Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America (Lexington Books, 2004). Her current research project is entitled Povertyscape: The New Global Order of Aid, Debt, and Development (Routledge, forthcoming). The project has already received several prestigious awards including the Hellman Faculty Award and the Prytanean Faculty Award, the latter being a research and leadership award given to one junior woman faculty member on the UC Berkeley campus each year. Roy teaches in the fields of comparative urban studies and international development. She currently serves as chair of the undergraduate Urban Studies major.

City planning professor David Dowall assumed leadership of the IURD in 2004. He has worked with IURD since joining the Berkeley faculty in 1976. Over the years, his research has focused on both domestic and international land management, housing policy, economic development strategy and infrastructure planning and finance. Internationally, Dowall has carried out policy research and designed technical and financial assistance strategies for cities and regions in over 40 countries. Although he is known for his empirical and analytical work on urban land economics and infrastructure finance, he has spent over 20 years working with governments and nongovernmental organizations on neighborhood and urban development projects. He is author of Spatial Transformation in Cities of the Developing World: Multinucleation and Land-Capital Substitution in Bogota, Colombia (IURD, 1990).

As a transportation specialist Robert Cervero’s current research projects include Accessibility, Mobility, and Sustainability in China, funded by the Volvo Foundation as one of five research themes being carried out under the UC Berkeley Center for the Future of Urban Transportation (part of ITS). Cervero’s interests span the areas of transportation and land-use policy and planning, suburban mobility, infrastructure finance, and comparative international development. He is the author of numerous books: The Transit Metropolis (Island Press, 1998); Transit Villages for the 21st Century (McGraw-Hill, 1997), Paratransit in America (Praeger, 1997), America’s Suburban Centers (Unwin-Hyman, 1989), and Suburban Gridlock (Rutgers Press, 1986) and Developing Around Transit: Strategies and Solutions That Work (2004). Other relevant IURD publications include: Paradigm Shift: From Automobility to Accessibility Planning (1996).