FOCUS is the yearly journal of Cal Poly´s City and Regional Planning Department. The journal is dedicated to disseminate departmental and college special events, faculty and scholarly output, and student projects. Its mission is to contribute to keep alumni, professionals, and students informed about recent planning issues and to showcase what the planning profession can offer to the community. FOCUS has been published since 2004 and in 2006 it received the award of excellence from the Central Coast Session and the Outstanding Journalism award from the California Chapter of the American Planning Association.

Copies may be obtained by calling (805) 756-1315 or emailing Focus at the CRP Department. Individual copies are US$5.00 (plus S&H).

Go to the Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department web page at Cal Poly's Digital Commons to download PDF files of all journals.

Focus Volume 5: 2008

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Focus Volume 4: 2007

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Focus Volume 3: 2006

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Essays: Expanding Housing Choices, Conserving Coastal Counties | Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Education: Planning and the CAED Sustainable Environments Program | Revisiting Hampstead Garden Suburb: A (Cautionary) Tale of Spatial Determinism | New Public Transit System for Accra, Ghana ...and much more!

Sponsors
KTGY Group, Inc.
Sinsheimer, Schiebelhut & Baggett Attorneys at Law
Pacific Municipal Consultants
Sesloc Federal Credit Union

Focus Volume 2: 2005

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Essays: Contemporary Master Planned Community Practice | Village Homes as a Lerning Lab for Future Planners | Passivity Was Not Working | A Sense of Community and Travel Behavior | The Foundational Process of Cities in Spanish America ...and much more!

Sponsors
KTGY Group, Inc.
Pacific Municipal Consultants
Nichols, Melburg, & Rossetto
R2L Architects
Sinsheimer, Schiebelhut & Baggett Attorneys at Law
Coast Hills Federal Credit Union

Focus Volume 1: 2004

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Essays: Planning, Architecture, and Politics | Urban Design and the Future of Public Space in the Brazilian City | Actions Towards Disaster Recovery ...and much more!

Sponsors
KTGY Group, Inc.
Ellen Berrier
Crawford Multari & Clark
Jacobson & Wack Land Use Planning Consultants
Peter Koetting
Vance Furukawa Consulting