David Feldman, professor of urban planning and public policy, was recently quoted in The Wall Street Journal about Australia's water market model. Feldman said "Australia’s flexibility and openness to a range of participants makes it a possible template for places such as California."

The Metropolitan Futures Initiative was featured in a recent UCI News article, “Community ‘factivists’: Researchers with UCI’s Metropolitan Futures Initiative use big data to reveal SoCal socioeconomic, crime trends”

The Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy welcomes Hun Kim to UCI as an assistant professor.