Faiza Moatasim, PhD
Director, OUR-Lab and Asst Prof of Urbanism and Urban Design
Email: moatasim@usc.edu Twitter: @FaizaMoatasim
Faiza’s work focuses on how underprivileged communities meet unfulfilled spatial needs in contemporary cities and how spaces of dispossession and inequity—often at the margins of architectural discourse and practice—are produced and sustained. Her teaching and research emphasize how the agency of individuals and communities in the shaping of their urban built environments—using their personal resources and political connections—is integral to our understanding of the planning, functioning, and everyday lived experiences of cities around the world.