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Karen Trapenberg Frick is an Associate Professor in the City and Regional Planning Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Institute of Urban and Regional Development. Her teaching responsibilities include graduate and undergraduate courses on transportation policy planning, global cities, planning history, and dissertation research design. She has served as the academic lead for the College of Environmental Design's [IN] CITY summer program on sustainable city planning and is an expert in sustainable transportation and community-based planning. Her current research focuses on the perspectives of conservative property rights activists on urban planning and the responses from planners. She has received several accolades for her research, including the 'Best Paper of the Year' Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association. Additionally, she has co-curated a collection of essays titled 'Strengthening Planning's Effectiveness in a Hyper-Polarized World.' Her professional experience includes a previous position as a transportation planner at the San Francisco Bay Area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission, where she worked for nearly a decade on various initiatives related to transportation funding policy and congestion pricing.
San Francisco Bay Area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission • San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on various programs including the award-winning Transportation Livable Communities program, congestion pricing initiatives, and transportation funding policy.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.