San Diego City Councilmember David Alvarez will talk about “The Value of Urban Planning from the Border to the Suburbs” as UCSD’s Environments in Motion lecture series continues Monday, March 9, from 6 to 7 pm at Ledden Auditorium on campus. The series, presented by the university’s John Muir College and the Division of Arts & Humanities, explores a range of environmental issues. Admission is free. Alvarez, who represents San Diego’s 8th District, has been an advocate for the city’s Climate Action Plan, which includes strategies to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address the impacts of climate change in the San Diego region. Elected to City Council in 2010, Alvarez grew up in Barrio Logan, a waterfront community with a long history of environmental degradation, high asthma rates and industrial-residential conflicts. His childhood home was next door to a chrome plating plant, and he says he can trace his own asthma to the constant presence of toxic emissions affecting residential areas, school playgrounds and parks.