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Ursula A Lang

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Specialties

  • urban sustainability policies and practices
  • self-environment relations
  • 'everyday' and domestic geographies
  • home and material culture
  • critical architecture and design
  • urban agriculture

Educational Background

  • Master of Architecture: University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
  • B.A.: Biology and Sociology/Anthropology , Swarthmore College, PA, 2000.

Publications

  • Changing American Home Life: Trends in Domestic Leisure and Storage among Middle-Class Families: Lang, Ursula Anderson, J. E. Arnold, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 28 23-48, 2007.

Research Activities

  • Practicing urban natures and sustainability in everyday outdoor domestic yards and gardens: current dissertation research, 2007 - present
  • FoodSpace: forms for food production in the city: Design thesis for M.Arch., high-rise building to house five species for food production and consumption in downtown San Francisco, Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
  • Everyday Leisure in Outdoor Domestic Space, Los Angeles: Collaboration with Dr.J.Arnold, Dept. of Anthropology/Center for Everyday Lives of Families (CELF)/UCLA, 2003 - 2005
  • Nationalism, shelter, and landscape change at Standing Rock Reservation, North and South Dakotas: government housing, the Oahe Dam, log cabins and tipis: Senior thesis in Sociology/Anthropology, Swarthmore College, PA (two semesters), Fall 1999 - Spring 2000

Creative Activities

  • print making
  • graphic design
  • gardening
  • drawing and architectural representations
  • viola

Courses Taught

  • Geog 3371: Cities, Citizens, and Communities (TA)
  • Geog 3373: Changing Forms of the City (TA)
  • Geog 3374: The City in Film (TA)
  • L&S 40: The History of American Popular Culture (GSI, UC Berkeley)
  • AS 39: History, Ecology, and Representations of American Forests (GSI, UC Berkeley)
  • AS 10: Introduction to American Studies: Food in America (GSI, UC Berkeley)
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