I returned to UCLA Urban Planning to deliver the guest lecture “Learning From Informal Urbanism Enforcement” in Vinit Mukhija’s course Informal City: Research & Regulation.

The talk provides a polemical reflection on my decade+ doing zoning enforcement in South Central LA — in particular the challenges & epiphanies — and prepares emerging planners for the realities of professional practice.

#UrbanPlanning #CityPlanning #EmbeddedPlanning #InformalHousing
#LosAngeles #California

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@12claire12 @Deyant @JakeWegmann @OregonSociology @MSUSPDC @UTSOA "A Typology of Informal Housing in the United States: Lessons for Planners." by Claire W. Herbert, Noah J. Durst, & Deyanira Nevárez Martínez. JPER, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X22113650; PDF https://unequalcities.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2022/12/Herbert_et_al_2022.pdf. Congrats on #InformalHousing grant, looking forward to seeing this work

I’m cited with Jake Wegmann in this new article outlining a typology of #InformalHousing in the US 👍🏽 Thank you and shout out to the scholars!

Claire W. Herbert, Noah J. Durst, and Deyanira Nevárez Martínez. “A Typology of Informal Housing in the United States: Lessons for Planners.” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2022.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X221136502

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As I was working out the concept, I made early references to #EmbeddedPlanning praxis in:

Jake Wegmann and Jonathan Pacheco Bell. “The Invisibility of Code Enforcement in Planning Praxis: The Case of #InformalHousing in Southern California.” Focus: The Journal of Planning Practice & Education 13(1), 20-29. 2016.

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