The Urban Growth Seminar Series is hosted by the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the USC Center for Sustainable Cities. The topic of this semester's series is "The Future of Sustainable Cities: Planning, Policy and Technology."

More information is available at http://urbangrowth.usc.edu/ or https://www.facebook.com/groups/140369116853/.

Date: March 27th, 2012

Time: 12:15pm to 1:30pm

Location: USC Campus, Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall, Room 101

Speaker: Stephanie Shakofsky, Executive Director of the Center for Creative Land Recycling

Title: Urban Regeneration and California's Current Billion Dollar Experiment

Topic Overview: A discussion of California's recent experiment with funding urban infill and transit-oriented development. The vision behind the new funding was to provide direct assistance to mixed-income, mixed-use developments with the greatest potential for catalyzing urban infill and community revitalization across the state. By directing significant financial support to large, transformative urban infill projects, the program's mission is to facilitate intelligent growth and sustainable land uses that simultaneously revitalize our older urban cores, address our housing needs, and begin to tackle our critical climate change issues. Come and learn more about this innovative $1 billion fund and how's it working.