This fall, DCRP celebrates 60 years of planning at UC Berkeley. Please see the DCRP at 60 webpage for additional events, and join us in the festivities!

Friday, November 21
5:30 p.m., 112 Wurster Hall
Reception to Follow

Allan Jacobs
Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning and Urban Design

Curitiba, Brazil: Twenty-Five Years of Planning and Developing: Tendency is Not Destiny: Make Each Day Better Than The Last

Following a first visit in 1975, Professor Jacobs continued to visit and teach, on occasion, in Curitiba, Brazil, now a much-storied city. He remained involved, at least in terms of what the city was doing, until the mid 1990s, particularly with Jaime Lerner, the three-time mayor and later governor of the state of Panama. Jacobs will talk mostly about that remarkable 25 year plus period of planning, designing, building, social programming, including successes, failures, and very particularly, the mindset of its leaders.

Allan Jacobs taught in the Department of City and Regional Planning from 1975 to 2001 and twice served as its Chair. Presently he is a consultant in city planning and urban design. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Miami University and studied at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He received his master's degree in city planning in 1954 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he later taught. From 1954 to 1955, he was a Fulbright Scholar in City Planning at University College in London. Prior to teaching at Berkeley, Professor Jacobs worked on planning projects in the City of Pittsburgh and for the Ford Foundation in Calcutta, India, and spent eight years as Director of the San Francisco Department of City Planning. Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berkeley Citation, and the Kevin Lynch Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Publications include The Boulevard Book (with Macdonald and Rofe), Great Streets, Looking at Cities, and Making City Planning Work.