We’re headed back to Barcelona in July, 2026 to learn about housing and urbanism in this great city. This is … More
Author: ddlp
I am a professor, architect, & community designer. I live in Sacramento, CA and teach landscape architecture and community development at UC Davis.
LED 141 – Community Participation in Design & Planning
Designers and planners need new frameworks and better tools for engaging with communities. Simply going to a community and holding … More
Visiting Barcelona Responsibly
Welcome to Barcelona, I hope this helps you get around easily. Barcelona is a city I first fell in love … More
Rio Paisanos Workshop in San Luis Potosí, Mexico
In October, Professor de la Peña traveled to Mexico to deliver a keynote talk on participatory design and to facilitate … More
The Sustainable Living and Learning Communities at UC Davis
Since 2015, I have been involved with the Sustainable Living and Learning Communities at UC Davis. In 2018, I led a year-long … More
International Garden of Many Colors
Project Summary and Letter of Support Since the mid 1990s, gardeners in the River Garden Estates neighborhood of north Sacramento … More
Design as Democracy
I’ve been to my fair share of community meetings. To be fair, I’ve organized too many to count. And honestly, … More
Grassroots Barcelona – Summer 2018
Update: Check out some of the work from our class: grassrootsbarcelona.wordpress.com Look up from your tapas and watch the flow of … More
Barcelona’s Superilles hit a snag
Last week I strolled through an experiment happening in the industrial Poble Nou neighborhood of Barcelona—a “Superilla” or “Super-island” where … More
Place-It with James Rojas
by James Rojas and David de la Peña Envisioning a Region It’s not easy for people to envision the region … More
David de la Peña 