Course Staff & Office Hours

Instructor

Karen Chapple
Karen Chapple (bio) Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she holds the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies. Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of regions in the U.S. and Latin America. Her recent books include Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions: Towards More Equitable Development (Routledge 2015, and winner of the John Friedmann Book Award); Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, MIT Press, 2019); and Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development: Theory and Evidence from Peripheral Regions in Latin America (with Sergio Montero, Routledge, 2018). In Fall 2015, she co-founded the Urban Displacement Project, a research portal examining patterns of residential, commercial, and industrial displacement, as well as policy solutions. Chapple holds a B.A. in Urban Studies from Columbia University, an M.S.C.R.P from the Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. She has served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota and the University of Pennsylvania, in addition to UC Berkeley.
Office Hours:Wed and Thurs 4-5 PM, 228 Wurster
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Teaching Assistants (GSIs)

Chester Harvey
Chester Harvey (bio) Chester Harvey is a PhD Candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning where his research focuses on transport and land use interactions. He has academic and professional experience applying spatial data science alongside more traditional GIS and cartographic techniques in fields ranging from transportation planning to urban design and renewable energy.
Group Office Hours: Tues 10-11 AM, Wurster Hall 2nd floor lounge
Individual 15-minute slots: Thurs 12:30-1:30 PM, Wurster Hall 2nd floor lounge.
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Manuel Santana Palacios
Manuel Santana Palacios (bio) Manuel Santana Palacios is a doctoral candidate in City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interest falls in the intersection of understanding human behavior under contexts of social exclusion and public transportation interventions in developed and developing cities. He is also interested in uncovering the unintended consequences of urban (transportation) planning on land development and the provision of transportation services using emerging information technologies and data science techniques.
Group Office Hours: Thurs 1-2 PM, 222 Wurster Hall
Individual 15-minute slots: Fri 11 AM - 12 PM, 334 Wurster Hall.
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Instructor Emerita

Abby Cochran
Abigail Cochran (bio) Abigail L. Cochran is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. She helped to develop the syllabus for CP 101 and served as co-instructor in 2019. Her research interests include disability and aging, travel behavior, and transportation policy. She has developed and taught courses on academic writing for the natural and social sciences, as well as on transportation planning and urban data science. She holds a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona, and completed the Master of City Planning degree program at UC Berkeley.