Urban Justice, Politics & Policy

CSULB geographers maintain active research programs in urban geography in Long Beach and the Southern California region with a focus on urban planning, policy, and politics related to social justice. Specific projects include examining housing and homelessness, gentrification, transportation, urban sustainability and resilience to climate change, participatory decision-making, environmental justice, and social movements.

Faculty: Carter, House-Peters, Hytrek, Jocoy

Urbanscapes, Emotion, Culture, and Transnationalism 

CSULB geographers have active research programs that focus on urban places and spaces, urbanism and urban design in international context, migration, effects of globalization, diverse populations, emotion, gender, and sexuality

Faculty: Diminutto and Sidorov