Hilda Blanco
Research Professor
Interim Director, Center for Sustainable Cities
Von Kleinsmid Center 370Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626
Email: hblanco@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 821-2431
Curriculum Vita
Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning
University of California, Berkeley
Biographical Sketch
Hilda Blanco is Research Professor and Interim Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities in SPPD. She is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Urban Design and Planning, where she served as Chair of the department from 2000-2007.
Dr. Blanco holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Classics from the City College of New York, a Masters in City and Regional Planning and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work focuses on climate change, urban growth management, brownfields policy, and decision-making and planning theories.
Her published works include How to Think About Social Problems: American Pragmatism and the Idea of Planning (Greenwood Press 1994), and recent articles in Progress in Planning, Journal of Emergency Management, Urban Studies, and Technology and Society. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Planning Education and Research and the Journal of Emergency Management.