Community + Regional Planning Updates

October 23, 2017 - Renia Ehrenfeucht

Claudia Isaac presented on “Decolonizing the Food System in New Mexico:  How Academics, Governments, and Philanthropies can Contribute to Food Justice without Getting in the Way”, and participated in a roundtable on the role of scholars in social movements at the annual meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in Denver, October 12-15, 2017.

CRP Professor Jennifer Tucker was involved in organizing two panel discussions and two roundtable discussions at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Inc. (ACSP) Annual Conference in Denver, CO October 12th – 15th.              

Claudia Isaac participated in a panel with Bernalillo County Commissioner Debbie O’Malley and Community Development Manager Rebecca Velarde of the City of Albuquerque on how to engage a campaign to establish a workforce housing  trust fund, hosted by the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Fe Homebuilders Association, October 19, 2017. 

CRP Professor Renia Ehrenfeucht’s article “Moving to a Shrinking City? Some Suggestive Observations on Why College-Educated Professionals Came to New Orleans and Why They Stayed” was published in Urban Studies (2017, DOI: 10.1177/0042098017720883).

CRP Professor Renia Ehrenfeucht published a chapter titled “Learning from New Orleans: Will Revising or Relaxing Public Space Ordinances Create a Just Environment for Street Commerce” in the book “Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice: From Loncheras to Lobsta Love” from The MIT Press (2017).