Dear Friends and Colleagues,
You are warmly invited to attend and celebrate the final presentations of the Sustainable Cities class at Stanford University.
ustainable Cities is a service-learning course offered through the Program on Urban Studies and Earth Systems Program. Students learn and work collaboratively with Bay Area government agencies and community organizations to support their sustainability goals. Now in its sixth year, the class attracts undergraduate and graduate students from a multitude of disciplines, ranging from urban studies to civil and environmental engineering to law and public policy majors, to support clients on meaningful fieldwork-based projects. To see more information about the class, please visit:
http://urbanst164.stanford.edu The Winter 2015 class is working with five community partners on the following projects: 1) assessing feasibility of an equitable and integrated Bay Area public transportation fare structure - Friends of Caltrain; 2) mapping residential displacement and demographic shifts in San Mateo County - Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto; 3) developing a public engagement strategy for household hazardous waste disposal in the City of San Jose - Department of Environmental Services; 4) creating a toolkit for Women Bike SF to increase bike ridership in San Francisco - San Francisco Bicycle Coalition; 5) providing technical and policy analysis for the City of Oakland soft story retrofit program - Resilient Oakland Initiative.
Please RSVP below!
DATE/TIME:
Wednesday, March 11 from 2-4PM
LOCATION:
Y2E2, Room 300
Stanford University
Campus Map Link:
http://stanford.io/1KttWciContact Information:
Deland Chan
(650) 724-6252
deland@stanford.edu