

Jonathan Pacheco Bell is a practicing urban planner with over 20 years of experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors spanning the fields of urban planning, architecture, and library/information science. ️Thanks to Bianca Paulino, Claudia Loayza, and Professor Stacy Harwood! Note the different Timezone start times: 11am Los Angeles / 12pm Salt Lake City.
Sjsu ischool summer 2021 series#
Stoked to announce that I’m delivering the keynote address for the Internalizing Equity series at the University of Utah Department of City & Metropolitan Planning: Every question, comment, and critique advances Embedded Planning. As always, I learned a lot from both Q & A sessions. Students continue to show excitement for the idea of Embedded Planning - planning practice on the ground. Many students said that this was their introduction to the concept of #HostileArchitecture. Fun fact: I met Alvaro when we were both MAUP students in Anastasia’s Introduction to the History of the Built Environment course at UCLA Urban Planning. I appreciated the students welcoming this unscheduled event. The second talk was an evening presentation in Professor Alvaro Huerta’s course, Planning for Minority Communities, at Cal Poly Pomona Urban & Regional Planning. I explained how I’ve created inclusive public spaces, and interrogated exclusionary hostile architecture, through street-level planning praxis. The presentation traced my work since graduation in 2005. She was my advisor in the MAUP (now MURP) program at UCLA, and taught this course back then too. Professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris invited me to return as a speaker. This was one of my favorite courses when I was a student there. The talk was created for the UP 279: Public Space Seminar at UCLA Urban Planning. By day’s end I added a second talk for undergraduates at Cal Poly Pomona. It was originally scheduled for one graduate class at UCLA. On April 20, 2021, I delivered the guest lecture, “Creating Equitable Public Spaces Through Embedded Planning.”
