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Renia Ehrenfeucht

Renia Ehrenfeucht, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Urban Planning University of California, Los Angeles, 2006. M.U.P., Urban Planning,
University of Washington, 1998. B.A. with honors, Environmental Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993

CONTACT INFORMATION
 
302 Milneburg Hall
Phone: 504-280-6517
Email: renia.ehrenfeucht@uno.edu
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS
 

- POLITICS OF PUBLIC SPACE USE

- SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

- PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

- POLITICS OF URBAN DESIGN
- PUBLIC SPACE HISTORY
 
COURSES
 
- Citizen Participation
- Shape of the City
- Social Policy
- Urban Theory
- Research Design Seminar (for PhD students)
 
PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
 
- Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht. Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space. The MIT Press, forthcoming spring 2009
 
- Evelyn Blumenberg and Renia Ehrenfeucht, 2008, "Civil Liberties and the Regulation of Public Space: The Case of Sidewalks in Las Vegas," Environment and Planning A 40: 303-322
 
- Marla Nelson, Renia Ehrenfeucht and Shirley Laska. 2007. “Planning, Plans and People: Professional Expertise, Local Knowledge and Governmental Action in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” Cityscape 9(3): 23-53.
 
- Renia Ehrenfeucht and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris. 2007. “Constructing the Sidewalk: Municipal Government and the Production of Public Space in Los Angeles, 1880–1920,” Journal of Historical Geography 33 (1): 104-124
 
- Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Evelyn Blumenberg and Renia Ehrenfeucht, 2004, “Sidewalk Democracy: Municipalities and the Regulation of Public Space,” in Eran Ben- Joseph and Terry Szwold (eds.), Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America, New York, Routledge.
 
PROFILE
 

Dr. Ehrenfeucht’s research interests fall into two general areas. First, she focuses on the production and meaning of public space, particularly the politics of public space use and design, and how regulatory mechanisms including design interventions, municipal ordinances and social norms interact inform and are informed by public space activities. This work is both historical and contemporary. Second, she is interested in the social production of the built environment, including processes that affect physical development, urban environmental justice, and how social structures such gender, race & ethnicity and sexuality influence city form.

For four years, Dr. Ehrenfeucht worked in land use planning in Washington State.

RENIA EHRENFEUCHT'S CV

 

  
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