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Alex Schafran is a doctoral candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
Schafran is currently completing a dissertation which examines how the San Francisco Bay Area was transformed over the past three decades, culminating in the effects of the recent foreclosure crisis. His article “Outside Endopolis: Notes from Contra Costa County” won the Edward W. Soja Award for Critical Urban Thought from Critical Planning. He writes regularly for Polis.
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