The 2011 UC Davis Winter Quarter Landscape Architecture lunch-bag lecture series addresses the growth of regions, cities, and towns, drawing attention to the role of practice in reflecting new cultural and institutional formations and a focus on place-based approaches in design-related fields. This quarter features lectures and video podcasts by speakers with knowledge and expertise about cross-cultural planning and design, place-making, and community development.

Latest episodes of the podcast Place, Identity and Practice, Winter 2011

• Culturally Competent Planning
• The Changing Face of American Suburbs
• Place Attachment in McArthur Park
• Youth views of community
• South Sacramento Healthy Communities Initiative
• Form Follows Culture
• Stanford University School of Medicine, A Case Study
• The Practice of Placemaking