CPP Environmental Design

He began as a bus driver. Now he’s driving the future of transportation! 🚌➡️📍 When Lucas LeVieux discovered a bus route to high school as a teenager, he found more than a ride. He found a passion that would change his life. After working as a bus driver, he came to CPP to study urban and regional planning and turned that experience into a career path. After graduation, he’s headed into a full-time role in sustainable transportation planning, helping design more connected communities across Southern California. Read more about this #CPPgrad via the 🔗 in bio.

polykroma family & friends day is this Sunday before commencement from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Kellogg University Art Gallery — stop by to see work from @artdepartment13 students! #cppenv #wedesignthefuture #artdepartment13 #cppvcd #cpparthistory

APSA students connected with planners from across the country and explored real-world challenges at the APA National Planning Conference in Detroit. APSA funded 15 undergraduate students to attend with support from alumni, donors, Associated Students Inc. at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and the Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design URP department. Combined with graduate and self-funded students, CPP was strongly represented with 34 students total! We conducted a post-trip survey—here are a few standout experiences: ▪ “Community Hubs of the Future was an interactive workshop where I worked in a group to redesign bus stops into a mobility hub. This helped me understand the concept of the mobility hub, which I had previously discounted as just a fancy name for a transit center.” ▪ “An Even Better Way to Zone was a great session. Focusing on how to make language in zoning code more focused on what can be done, rather than what can’t.” ▪ “As a student planner working on complete streets in the Inland Empire, one panel that had a profound impact on me was called Complete Streets Means Trucks, Too!” ▪ “I went to a really cool one about how the City of Boise’s Planning Department made a comic book to educate the public on zoning!!” ▪ “Connecting with Aditi Galande had a strong impact on me because her connections with AIA and APA and interdisciplinary background showed me it is possible to be involved in both the Architecture and Urban Planning field.” Beyond sessions, the impact of this trip extended to student confidence, access, and professional identity: ▪ “NPC is a great way to get students out of the California planning bubble and learn about unique issues and strategies in other US cities.” ▪ “This conference changed my life… I never could have imagined something like this would be possible for someone like me.” ▪ “It strengthened bonds between cohorts… I got to see a city I would’ve never explored through a new Planning perspective.” If you supported this effort during Broncos Give, THANK YOU. Your support directly enabled access to this experience — see the attached infographic for proof!

Thank you to everyone who came out to the banquet — nearly 100 students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the department filled the room. The energy, enthusiasm, and support for one another made the night special. Congratulations to this year’s scholarship recipients and award winners: APA Outstanding Student Award • Lucas LeVieux • Abigail Urquiza Scott and Fiona Reimers Academic Excellence Award • Josue Hernandez URP Merit Award • Asha Demehry • Grace Holt • Ethan Hauk • Trynity Lizzarago • Lindsay Matsubayashi • Andres Perez • Aryan Ray • Ociana Romo • Dipannita Roy • Marie Sekiguchi • Caitlin Au • McCoy Cantwell • Sean Fox • Mariah Garcia • Aaron Mejia • Vianne Rae Julia Militar • Lindsey Munoz • Amy Pelch Thank you all for making this year with APSA and GPSA memorable. More banquet photos, including individual awardee photos, are available in the OneDrive folder linked in our bio. Congratulations to the Class of 2026 — and to everyone else, we’ll see you next year.

What an incredible evening celebrating creativity, community, and student talent at our very first Art Gallery at the Community Innovation Hub 🎨✨ Thank you to all of the talented artists, supporters, students, and community members who joined us and helped make this event so special. We are proud to create opportunities for @cppenv students to showcase their artwork in community-centered spaces and connect their creativity beyond the classroom. This is just the beginning — we are excited for future galleries and opportunities to welcome the Pomona community to experience the amazing work Broncos are creating. 🐴💛💚 Interested in partnering or showcasing work at The Hub? 📩 [email protected] #CalPolyPomona #CPP #CommunityInnovationHub #Pomona #ArtGallery

WE ASKED student artists! 🎨 This Saturday, join us at the Hub to see what the CPP art department has been creating. These students are showcasing their latest pieces, and they’d love to see you there. It’s all happening during the Pomona Art Walk, so the energy will be incredible with food, handcrafted vendors, and live entertainment. We’ll have refreshments waiting for you, too! Bring your family and friends and make a day of it. 📅 Saturday, May 9 🕓 4PM – 7PM 📍 Community Innovation Hub, Downtown Pomona 🎟️ RSVP on Eventbrite — link in bio! #Pomona #PomonaArtWalk #StudentArtists #SupportLocalArt

Come support our student-artists at the Community Innovation Hub gallery this Saturday — a collaboration between the Hub and the Cal Poly Pomona Art & Music Departments! Your support goes a long way for these young creators and the community.🤍 This will also take place during the Pomona Art Walk, full of fun entertainment, food, handcrafted goods, and artists. Bring your family and friends for the perfect weekend outing! 📅 Saturday, May 9 🕓 4PM – 7PM 📍 Community Innovation Hub, Downtown Pomona 🎟️ RSVP on Eventbrite — link in bio! #Pomona #PomonaArtWalk #StudentArtists #SupportLocalArt #InlandEmpire DowntownPomona CommunityFirst

Please join Dr. Alan Waxman's LA 4621L-03 Capstone Studio today, May 6, from 1-5 p.m. on zoom for A New Kind of National Park: Columbia River Basin Studio Nchi Wana Ticham me Twatimashwit Ititamit Link (in bio): https://cpp.zoom.us/j/88573702014 From Dr. Waxman: “A New Kind of National Park: Columbia River Basin Studio” is a collaboration with landscape practitioners of the Yakama Nation: Elaine Harvey, Bronsco Jim, Miles Miller, and Dana Miller. Our site is located along the Columbia River, Nchi Wana, at Pushpum, now threatened by a “green energy” project and potential AI data center. As a class, we proposed confidential site specific strategies in the midterm for use, in part or in whole, by our colleagues in the Yakama Nation and the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission. For our final review, students are asked to personally reflect on the significance of the site: in terms of intergenerational and seasonal time, the various dimensions of place, and how personal experience in time and place weaves together sacred foods, vegetation, and care in landscape. Students final deliverables include an ecological section perspective, a seasonal cycle, and a proposed wearable. Students must detail who they intend to receive the wearable and when. This human scale gift should intentionally tie into a specific moment in their vision of time and place; it is their final “design intervention,” which resonates through the human system to care for the land.

This APIDA Heritage Month, we're recognizing CPP landscape architecture professor Keiji Uesugi. He is helping students preserve Japanese American history by doing the work themselves. On field trips to Manzanar, California’s primary WWII incarceration site, his students apply their skills to protect and restore a place shaped by both injustice and resilience. “Talk about learn by doing. It doesn’t get any more visceral than that.” -Keiji Uesugi Uesugi’s commitment to storytelling through the land is deeply personal. He is the son of Professor Emeritus Takeo Uesugi, who designed CPP's Aratani Japanese Garden, widely considered the most beautiful part of our scenic campus (as you can see in our photos).🌳🍃🌸 Read more via the 🔗 in bio.

happening until 1pm! stop by and chill out with us!

CPGE partners with the College of Environmental Design to expand access to graduate programs that cultivate creative leaders in architecture and design. Together, we support learners who want to design environments that improve lives, strengthen communities, and shape a more sustainable future. #cpge #cpp #wearebroncos #becomebydoing #InteriorArchitecture #DesignLeadership #CPPDesign #GraduatePrograms

Our last guest speaker of the semester! Available both in person and virtual. Don’t miss out on this great hybrid opportunity. Tuesday, May 5 12pm in room 201 Registration link is in bio!