As he eyes a possible run for Congress to represent the South Bay regionLiccardo, who oversaw the country’s 10th-largest city for eight years, will lead a class on “How Cities Can Save the World” two times a week on Stanford’s campus beginning April 3, according to the university’s website. The class will touch on issues surrounding affordable housing, climate change and violent crime through an urban-policymaker lens.
“We will seek to move beyond familiar ideological battles to emphasize outcomes, evidence-based solutions, and analytical rigor,” the class reads. “From contemporary academic studies and journals, news articles, case law, and guest speakers, students will gain an appreciation for cities as policy laboratories for pragmatic solutions that often elude binary labelling as ‘progressive’ or ‘conservative.'”
Sam Liccardo takes teaching gig ...