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Food Systems Academic Programs

FOOD SYSTEMS

 

 

University of Wisconsin – Madison

Department of Urban and Regional Planning

 

Our Mission:

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning has three core missions of teaching, research, and outreach.  First, our professional masters curriculum actively prepares graduate students to become competent, creative and effective practicing planners while our doctoral program trains students in planning research for their entry into academia.  Second, we create new knowledge through multidisciplinary research relevant to planning; scholarship that is published in peer-reviewed journals, books, monographs, and technical reports.  Third, we engage the Wisconsin Idea through professional planning activities and service to communities throughout the state and beyond in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin – Extension, a variety of public agencies, planning consulting firms and other private and non-profit sector organizations.

 

The Curriculum

In our master’s degree program, students complete a set of foundational courses that build competence in the following knowledge areas for a successful career in the government, nonprofit, or private sector:

  • Structure and function of cities and regions
  • History and theory of planning processes and practice
  • Administrative, legal, and political aspects of plan making
  • Public involvement and dispute resolution techniques
  • Research design and data analysis techniques
  • Written, oral, and graphic communication skills
  • Ethics of professional practice
  • Collaborative approaches to problem solving

Students individualize their programs of study developing expertise in an area of specialization that reflect specific professional aspirations and intellectual interests. In the elective coursework that cultivates an area of specialization, students work with URPL faculty and faculty in other departments, programs, and centers.  This cross-college collaboration further strengthens the already robust relationships of the various departments with the knowledge their colleagues share many of the same passions and drive of the Wisconsin Idea.

 

http://urpl.wisc.edu/

 

Tufts University

Department of Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning

 

Today’s world of rapid urbanization faces tremendous social and environmental challenges. If you are interested in becoming a talented thinker and practitioner to engage and confront them, UEP is the right place for you. Our goal is the education of a new generation of leaders, ‘practical visionaries,’ who will contribute to the development of inclusive and sustainable communities. A key step toward this is making our institutions more responsive to child, adult, and ultimately community well-being by helping them understand, empathize with, and respond to the social, economic, and environmental needs of individuals and communities.

At 40, UEP has grown tremendously in its capacity and influence. The UEP education integrates knowledge, skills and values to anticipate the future. You will develop an understanding of the dynamics of cities and regions, integrate theories and practices of planning and policy-making, explore creative ways to bridge social justice and sustainable development, and engage in community-based projects and research. UEP students are an activist group, successful in the creation of learning communities involving food system planning, climate policy and planning, and intercultural practice. For you, the room to grow and flourish is enormous.

We offer two graduate public policy and planning programs culminating in either a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree, which is accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB), or a Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) degree. Our curriculum is built around a set of six core values (below) and a set of competencies based on three areas: knowledge, skills, and policy and planning in practice. We offer a wide range of electives, many taught by seasoned practitioners with extensive teaching experience. Students benefit from our connections with other schools at Tufts and Boston College, through either taking courses or pursuing joint/dual degrees — among the areas are child development, nutrition and food policy, international affairs, environmental engineering, law, and business management.

UEP is a community of practice and scholars – our faculty, students and alumni are public-spirited individuals committed to engaged processes and just outcomes for cities and communities. Enabled by the UEP education they receive here, our graduates progress to important positions and challenging careers in government, nonprofit organizations, citizen advocacy groups, international NGOs, and the private sector, both in the U.S. and across the world. Our diverse faculty is active in research and engaged scholarship; many are leading scholars in their respective fields of expertise. Just sustainability, environmental health and ethics, shrinking cities, housing and community development, child and family policy, and international planning and urban policy, to name just a few.

Come and join us to foster your ambitions and hone your abilities. We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Weiping Wu

Professor and Chair

UEP’s curriculum is built around a set of six core values:

  1. An appreciation of the inextricable linkages between social, economic and environmental issues and the ability to make policy and planning recommendations accordingly;
  2. An appreciation of the role of values in policy formation and planning and the ethical/social responsibility of policy and planning professionals to act accordingly;
  3. An appreciation of the deeply embedded nature of gender, age, race, class, disability, culture and sexual orientation in all aspects of public policy and planning;
  4. An appreciation of the centrality of spatial, social and environmental justice to all aspects of public policy and planning;
  5. An appreciation of the need to understand the role of individual and community rights and responsibilities in public policy and planning; and
  6. An appreciation of the need to move society toward the development of sustainable communities where there is a high quality of human life, delivered in a just and equitable manner while respecting the limits of supporting ecosystems.

 

http://ase.tufts.edu/uep/

 

University of Michigan

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

 

Urban and Regional Planning is a profession that strives to improve the environmental quality, economic potential, and social equity of places: neighborhoods, towns, cities, metropolitan areas, and larger regions.

Planners seek to improve alternatives to sprawling, auto-dependent areas; to revitalize downtowns and inner-city neighborhoods; to develop cities and towns in a manner that protects the environment; to create lively, interesting neighborhoods and commercial areas; and to foster sustainable development.

Michigan Planning seeks to shape place-based policy and design for social equity and sustainability, regional solutions to metropolitan problems, just and effective remedies for urban decline, and the creation of human settlements that offer alternatives to environmentally consumptive land-development patterns. Taubman College offers two degrees: a Master of Urban Planning and a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning.

The Master of Urban Planning (M.U.P.) degree offers professional education in the planning field. Graduates apply their professional skills in various government agencies, private enterprises, or nonprofit organizations within a variety of subject areas. Concentrations include: Land Use and Environmental Planning; Housing, Community, and Economic Development; Global and Comparative Planning; Physical Planning and Design; and Transportation Planning. Graduate education at Taubman College emphasizes the development of students’ abilities to analyze, evaluate, integrate, and apply critical thinking in interdisciplinary planning processes. The course of study normally requires two years (four terms/full-time) for completion.

The Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning trains scholars for careers in higher education, research, and high-level policy positions. It is a doctoral degree with a flexible, interdisciplinary focus. Graduates work in universities, government, nonprofits, and the private sector in the U.S. and around the world. The curriculum integrates analytical methods, research design, a rigorous understanding of urbanization dynamics, and an examination of broader social theories, processes, and policies. Students address complex systems that typically encompass an array of spatial, environmental, social, political, technical, and economic factors. The emphasis is on theory, analysis, and action. Each student is also expected to demonstrate an understanding of the literature, theory, and research in a specialization area within the larger discipline of urban and regional planning.

 

https://taubmancollege.umich.edu/urbanplanning/overview

 

Research Methods and Evaluation Academic Programs

RESEARCH METHODS & EVALUATION

 

University of Washington

Department of Urban Design and Planning

 

Our core mission is to develop a community of inquiry, learning, and practice that helps urban regions to become more livable, just, economically effective, and environmentally sound through a democratic process of urban design and planning.

 

http://urbdp.be.washington.edu/about/

 

University at Buffalo

Department of Urban and Regional Planning

 

Study in Buffalo is distinctive, because we engage you in our city and region. In your studies with us, you become involved with city governments and neighborhood groups, urban and rural environments, citizens and leaders, and the challenges they face: both troubling problems and fascinating opportunities. We do this through class exercises, internships or independent study, and final thesis or project, and especially through our client-based workshops, which we call “studios.”

 

http://ap.buffalo.edu/academics/urban-regional-planning/why-planning-at-buffalo.html

 

Transportation Academic Programs

University of California Los Angeles

Department of Urban Planning

Luskin School of Public Affairs

 

The UCLA Department of Urban Planning is at the intersection of unique academic, regional, geographic, and professional resources that creates a learning environment unlike any other. Los Angeles, one of the most culturally diverse and exciting urban settings in the world, serves as a unique laboratory for faculty and students to study and solve urban issues and problems. The world-class faculty in the department—nationally and internationally recognized scholars and leaders in community development, environmental planning, housing, land development, regional and international development, transportation, and urban design—prepare master’s and doctoral degree students to address the social, economic, and spatial relationships that shape society.

 

http://luskin.ucla.edu/urban-planning

 

Temple University

School of Environmental Design

Department of Community and Regional Planning

 

Community development as a field embraces both citizen activists and professionals in planned efforts to identify, enhance, and create social and physical assets that increase the capacity of residents to improve their quality of life. Community development focuses on grass roots, community-based initiatives, complimenting the field of Community and Regional Planning, which is often more policy driven and government sponsored.

 

http://www.temple.edu/ambler/crp/

 

Pratt Institute

City and Regional Planning Program

 

The partnership between Pratt Institute and NJ TRANSIT gives students more transportation options and opportunities. Pratt Institute full-time undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to receive a rail, bus, or light rail monthly pass at 25% off of the regular monthly pass price, when they enroll online through NJ TRANSIT’s Quik-Tik program. Please note: students must be full time and can purchase passes only between place of residence and location of school. Entering other locations will result in rejection of the enrollment.

https://www.pratt.edu/student-life/student-services/transportation/

University of Washington

Department of Urban Design and Planning

College of Built Environments

 

Our vision is to provide leadership in contemporary issues of design to our college, university, and region through innovative research and teaching and interdisciplinary collaboration. We champion architecture as a critical urban and cultural practice that integrates a complex array of social, ethical and ecological concerns with the research activities of the academy and the technical advances of the building industries and the profession.

 

http://dev.be.washington.edu/academics/departments

Policy Academic Programs

Albany University State University of New York

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy

 

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany is proud to be recognized by US News & World Report as one of the top schools in the country.  Talented students come to Rockefeller for the knowledge and tools to make a difference in the world.  We pride ourselves on preparing dynamic leaders who will shape the public policies of the future.  Whether you are interested in domestic policy or international affairs, thinking about a career at the local, state, national, or international level, or planning to enter graduate school, Rockefeller College will provide you with the tools you need to succeed and achieve your career goals.

 

http://www.albany.edu/rockefeller/about.shtml

 

Tufts University

Center for the Study of Race and Democracy

 

The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) is devoted to conceptualizing the intersection between race and democracy at the local, national, and international levels. On this score, it focuses on the pivotal contributions of ordinary activists, iconic anti-racist political activists, intellectuals, elected officials, and cultural workers. Based on the belief that history informs contemporary struggles for democracy and public policy, the Center seeks to participate in a public conversation about the very meaning of racial, social, and political justice.

 

http://as.tufts.edu/csrd/about/

 

University of California Los Angeles

Certificate in Global Public Affairs

 

GPA @ UCLA Luskin provides intellectual and professional preparation to future experts who plan to work within the realm of global public affairs. We offer four different Certificates in Global Public Affairs, which can be obtained in addition to any MPP, MURP, or MSW degree from the Luskin School. We also offer summer fellowships abroad through GPA’s International Practice Pathway.  Additionally, we host various events throughout the year, including prominent lectures, practical workshops, and career talks. These opportunities are open for all Luskin students – find out more today by exploring our website or e-mailing us at global@luskin.ucla.edu with specific questions.

 

http://global.luskin.ucla.edu/about-gpa

 

Higher Education Pathways to Social Change Careers

For Students interested in transferring or pursuing a Bachelors or Masters Degree, this resource is an overview of higher education institutions that offer various degrees in fields related to nonprofit careers such as community planning, poverty, immigration, disaster planning, diversity, social justice, housing and policy.

 

Created By:

Public Allies Los Angeles Class of 2015

TEAM SERVICE PROJECT: NONPROFIT CAREER PATHWAYS

Sarah Reyes, Diana Aguilar

 

PROGRAM FOCUS:

COMMUNITY PLANNING

DEMOGRAPHY, POVERTY AND IMMIGRATION

DISASTER PLANNING

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

DIVERSITY & SOCIAL JUSTICE

ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

FOOD SYSTEMS

HISTORY & THEORY

HOUSING

POLICY

TRANSPORTATION

RESEARCH METHODS & EVALUATION

URBAN DESIGN AND LAND USE

 

Urban Design and Land Use Academic Programs

URBAN DESIGN AND LAND USE

 

 

University of Washington

Department of Urban Design and Planning

College of Built Environments

 

Our vision is to provide leadership in contemporary issues of design to our college, university, and region through innovative research and teaching and interdisciplinary collaboration. We champion architecture as a critical urban and cultural practice that integrates a complex array of social, ethical and ecological concerns with the research activities of the academy and the technical advances of the building industries and the profession.

 

http://dev.be.washington.edu/academics/departments

 

University of California Berkeley

College of Environmental Design

 

The College of Environmental Design provides leadership to address the world’s most pressing urban challenges. We do this through rigorous research and scholarship, design excellence, innovative pedagogy, open debate, craft and skill-building, critical and theoretical practice, and insights from both the academy and professional practice.

  • Excellent and accessible public higher education
  • Sustainable design, planning and urbanism
  • Aesthetic quality, craft, and technological innovation
  • Visionary yet pragmatic design practice
  • Critical pedagogy and cross-disciplinary learning
  • Social, economic, and environmental justice
  • Ecological and public health
  • Local-global engagement and activism
  • Respect for place, community, and diversity
  • Ethical professional practice and research

http://ced.berkeley.edu/about-ced/vision-principles/

 

Housing Academic Programs

 

Iowa State University

College of Design

 

The Iowa State University Community and Regional Planning Program offers the Master of Community and Regional Planning (MCRP) degree with areas of concentration in land use and transportation, community design and development, and rural and environmental planning. Students may design their own area of concentration with the assistance of their major professor.

 

http://www.design.iastate.edu/communityplanning/graduateprograms.php

 

Arizona State University

School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

 

The Arizona State University School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning offers students a rich, broad exposure to the wide range of theoretical domains and methods that characterize current research in geography and planning.

 

The school also offers three professional degrees, the MUEP, the MAS in Geographic Information Systems, and the concurrent MUEP and MS/MA in Sustainability.

 

https://geoplan.asu.edu/academics/graduate-studies

 

University at Albany, SUNY

Department of Geography & Planning

 

Teaching and research in the department emphasize urban, social, physical, and cultural geography; city and regional planning; urban design; remote sensing; cartography and geographic information systems; environmental studies; climatology; computer and statistical models; area (regional) studies; urban and regional planning methods; economic development; small town and rural land-use planning. Members of the faculty have strong international links with China, Russia, Australia, and various countries in Africa, Latin America and Western Europe.

 

http://www.albany.edu/gp/about_the_department.php

 

Columbia University

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Program in Planning

 

The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University combines pioneering disciplinary experimentation with an uncompromising engagement with the world and the urgent questions of our time. Located in the heart of the Columbia Morningside campus in one of the most vibrant global cities in the world, the GSAPP is committed to imagining a future where architecture and cities are reinvented and recast in a more symbiotic relationship with the environment.

 

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/#about/letter-from-the-dean

 

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History and Theory Academic Programs

 

HISTORY & THEORY

 

Florida State University

Department of Urban and Regional Planning  

 

The Florida State University Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) is Florida’s oldest and largest graduate planning program. Founded in 1965, DURP has been a leader in planning education for decades and shaped planning practice in a state internationally known for innovations in the areas of comprehensive planning, emergency management, land conservation, urban design, public health, and the transportation-land use nexus.

 

The Combined Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree Program in Urban and Regional Planning allows academically talented FSU undergraduates to complete a Bachelor’s degree in any major and a Master’s of Science in Planning (MSP) degree in less time than it would take to complete each degree separately. Students who are accepted into the combined degree program may take up to 12 credit hours of graduate courses in Urban and Regional Planning. These credits will count toward completion of both their Bachelor’s degree and MSP degree upon admission to the MSP program. The combined degree program thus allows students the opportunity to take a more challenging set of courses and begin their graduate studies early.

 

http://coss.fsu.edu/durp/

 

University of Texas

Graduate Program in Community and Regional Planning

School of Architecture

 

The Graduate Program in Community and Regional Planning (CRP) at The University of Texas at Austin has a strong focus on sustainable development processes and practices. We seek development paths that balance growth with improved environmental performance, while expanding opportunities for all segments of the community. These principles inform our curricula and research. CRP faculty and students are involved in an array of innovative research and practice activities in sustainability through our major research center – the Center for Sustainable Development.

 

http://soa.utexas.edu/programs/community-and-regional-planning

 

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of City and Regional Planning

 

The Department of City and Regional Planning  is one of the largest, oldest, and best known programs of graduate planning education and research in North America. It was founded in 1946 to demonstrate the practical application of social science methods to problems of government and the interdisciplinary union of social science, design and engineering. It was the first planning program in the nation with its principal university base in the social sciences rather than in landscape design or architecture. It has retained and strengthened its legacy while expanding the breadth and depth of its programs to include a full range of graduate planning study.

 

http://planning.unc.edu/academics

 

Colombia University

Planning and Preservation Urban Planning Program

Graduate School of Architecture

 

The Urban Planning Program has as its mission the education of individuals in the (1) fundamental economic and political processes that shape the built environment of cities, (2) ways in which governments, community-based organizations, private sector actors, and political mobilizations produce and influence these processes, and (3) crafting of collective efforts to improve the quality of life of city residents. The tensions among market forces, civil society, and the goals of planning are of major concern. Particular attention is given to the importance of expert knowledge and the quest for social justice.

 

In pursuit of these goals, the program focuses on the ideas and techniques developed by planners and social activists since the emergence of the planning profession in the early twentieth century. To this, the faculty adds knowledge from the social sciences, architecture and urban design, historic preservation, and the humanities.

 

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/programs/urban-planning

 

Pratt Institute School of Architecture

City and Regional Planning Program

Graduate Programs for Planning and Sustainable Development Department

 

The mission of the graduate City and Regional Planning (CRP) program is to provide a professionally oriented education to a student body with diverse cultural, educational, and professional backgrounds. The CRP program focuses on participatory planning and sustainable, equitable communities, while stressing a multidisciplinary approach. Students graduate equipped with the knowledge of theory, technical capacity, collaborative skills, and critical thinking abilities necessary to plan for economic, environmental, and social justice in urban neighborhoods and metropolitan regions.

 

Pratt’s vision is to achieve distinction as one of the nation’s most practice-based, interdisciplinary, and innovative city planning programs. It aims to: promote independent and collaborative work on behalf of social and environmental justice, local communities, and innovative urbanism.

 

https://www.pratt.edu/academics/architecture/city-and-regional-planning/mission-goals/

 

Iowa State University

Community and Regional Planning Department

 

Community and regional planning is a field of study aimed at understanding the ever-changing socioeconomic and physical environments of our communities and planning for their future. Planners evaluate and seize opportunities to solve problems. Planners work at multiple levels, and they are concerned with issues that affect every corner of the world: the preservation and enhancement of the quality of life in a community, the protection of the environment, the promotion of equitable economic opportunity; and the management of growth and change of all kinds.

 

http://catalog.iastate.edu/collegeofdesign/communityandregionalplanning/

 

The University of Michigan

Urban and Regional Planning Program

  1. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

 

Taubman College Master of Urban Planning students produce award-winning work  engaging and assessing real-world planning challenges in partnership with community, government or other organizations. Each student will complete a Capstone course that culminates in a final group presentation and plan given to an audience of peers and project clients.

Through visiting professors and lecturers of various educational backgrounds and professional experiences, students are introduced to new ideas and opportunities. Field-study and community outreach are essential aspects of the Program. Students may participate in Expanded Horizons, an on-site field study, and serve Detroit neighborhoods through the Detroit Community Partnership Center, Michigan Neighborhood AmeriCorps Program and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Work Study Program. Students publish Agora, the Planning and Urban Design student journal, and run the Urban Planning Student Association.

 

http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/urbanplanning/students/student-work

 

University of New Mexico

Community and Regional Planning

School of Architecture and Planning

 

The MCRP degree program is a two-year course of study designed to allow students to pursue a concentration consistent with their professional objectives.  Three concentrations are offered: Community Development, Natural Resources and Environmental Planning, and Physical Planning and Design. The completion of a concentration allows students to match academic interests with potential employment opportunities.

 

http://saap.unm.edu/academic-programs/community-regional-planning/admissions.html

 

Illinois University

Department of Urban and Regional Planning

 

The mission of the BAUP program is to provide an excellent liberal arts education and to prepare intellectually grounded students for careers in planning and planning-related fields. More broadly, the BAUP major aims to prepare entry level professional planners who are also capable of pursuing graduate study in planning and related fields and to growing into leaders in their professions.

 

The mission of the MUP program is to prepare students to become leading practitioners in the planning profession. The MUP program seeks to provide students with a deep intellectual grounding in specific knowledge areas and preparation in advanced skills and techniques of planning.

 

The Ph.D. Program in Regional Planning educates scholars for positions in leading universities and research institutions. It builds a strong foundation of planning and social science theories, advanced research methods and design, and expertise in a chosen specialization.

 

http://www.urban.illinois.edu/prospective-students/academic-programs

 

Wayne State University

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

 

The Department of Urban Studies and Planning offers a range of degree programs and courses that are at the forefront of WSU’s urban mission. The undergraduate degree in Urban Studies places an emphasis on building a firm theoretical and practical understanding of cities and communities across the globe. The Master of Urban Planning degree, recently rated as one of the leading programs in the nation, offers a challenging curriculum focusing on the condition, problems, and opportunities in urban America.

 

http://clas.wayne.edu/dusp/#

 

Texas Southern University

School of Public Affairs

Department of Urban Planning & Environmental Policy

 

The mission of our program is to train policy-oriented planners and environmental policy analysts for leadership positions in planning and environmental policy-related organizations, with special emphasis on issues of significance to the communities and regions of the Southwest. The goal of the program is to equip future professionals with analytical and policy formulation skills that will enable them to address with vision and foresight, the current and future environmental problems caused by our impact on the environment. Students will be prepared to be professional planners, environmental policy and community development specialists prepared to help solve the pressing urban and environmental problems of our city, the region, the nation, and the world. Our MUPEP program is the only accredited planning program in the Greater Houston region and the fourth accredited planning program in the State of Texas. It was first accredited in 2009. Recently it was awarded a seven year re-accreditation to December 31, 2018 (the longest period allowable) by the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB).

 

http://www.tsu.edu/academics/colleges__schools/publicaffairs/upep/

 

University of Washington

Department of Urban Design and Planning

Our core mission is to develop a community of inquiry, learning, and practice that helps urban regions to become more livable, just, economically effective, and environmentally sound through a democratic process of urban design and planning.

http://urbdp.caup.washington.edu

Environment and Sustainability Academic Programs

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

 

 

Temple University

School of Environmental Design

Department of Community and Regional Planning

 

Undergraduate Degree – Community Development

Community development as a field embraces both citizen activists and professionals in planned efforts to identify, enhance, and create social and physical assets that increase the capacity of residents to improve their quality of life. Community development focuses on grass roots, community-based initiatives, complimenting the field of Community and Regional Planning, which is often more policy driven and government sponsored.

Students will learn to understand and think critically about the social, political, economic, historic, and cultural dynamics shaping various types of communities. Courses provide important knowledge, values, and skills necessary for community development work. Students will learn how to engage stakeholders; assess a community’s assets, needs and opportunities; plan what the community wants to achieve: and develop strategies, programs, and policies to improve quality of life. Learning will extend beyond the classroom with hands-on experience through service learning, field research, informal gatherings, and workshops.

 

Graduate Degree – Community and Regional Planning

The Department of Community and Regional Planning offers graduate work leading to the Master of Science degree. The primary purpose of the program is to develop skilled practitioners for the dynamic and growing field of community and regional planning in government, non-profit, and private sectors. These skills place students in the front lines of efforts to create and maintain sustainable communities.

The program builds on the traditions already established in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, which has a long history of involvement with land use issues, and the Center for Sustainable Communities.

 

Areas of Specialization

Planners must understand how cities, towns, and regions are structured and how to create and evaluate plans that maintain and improve the quality of life in those communities.

The M.S. in Community and Regional Planning (CRP) addresses problems affecting large portions of the American population. In particular, the Philadelphia suburbs, including Ambler in Montgomery County, are experiencing the difficulties associated with population increases: the exponential growth of schools without an adequate tax base; the stress on groundwater and other aspects of the natural environment; the loss of open land to tract housing; the construction of shopping malls and the accompanying decline of small central towns; and the emphasis on the automobile at the expense of public transportation.

CRP courses help students to develop skills to address these issues by emphasizing the preparation of the urban/suburban land use plan, including data collection, site analysis and evaluation of location, market, transportation, and environmental factors.

Private, public and non-profit employment opportunities are strong for graduate degree holders based on current need and a projected growth for the next decade.

 

http://www.temple.edu/ambler/crp/

 

Tufts University

Department of Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning

 

Today’s world of rapid urbanization faces tremendous social and environmental challenges. If you are interested in becoming a talented thinker and practitioner to engage and confront them, UEP is the right place for you. Our goal is the education of a new generation of leaders, ‘practical visionaries,’ who will contribute to the development of inclusive and sustainable communities. A key step toward this is making our institutions more responsive to child, adult, and ultimately community well-being by helping them understand, empathize with, and respond to the social, economic, and environmental needs of individuals and communities.

At 40, UEP has grown tremendously in its capacity and influence. The UEP education integrates knowledge, skills and values to anticipate the future. You will develop an understanding of the dynamics of cities and regions, integrate theories and practices of planning and policy-making, explore creative ways to bridge social justice and sustainable development, and engage in community-based projects and research. UEP students are an activist group, successful in the creation of learning communities involving food system planning, climate policy and planning, and intercultural practice. For you, the room to grow and flourish is enormous.

We offer two graduate public policy and planning programs culminating in either a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree, which is accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB), or a Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) degree. Our curriculum is built around a set of six core values (below) and a set of competencies based on three areas: knowledge, skills, and policy and planning in practice. We offer a wide range of electives, many taught by seasoned practitioners with extensive teaching experience. Students benefit from our connections with other schools at Tufts and Boston College, through either taking courses or pursuing joint/dual degrees — among the areas are child development, nutrition and food policy, international affairs, environmental engineering, law, and business management.

UEP is a community of practice and scholars – our faculty, students and alumni are public-spirited individuals committed to engaged processes and just outcomes for cities and communities. Enabled by the UEP education they receive here, our graduates progress to important positions and challenging careers in government, nonprofit organizations, citizen advocacy groups, international NGOs, and the private sector, both in the U.S. and across the world. Our diverse faculty is active in research and engaged scholarship; many are leading scholars in their respective fields of expertise. Just sustainability, environmental health and ethics, shrinking cities, housing and community development, child and family policy, and international planning and urban policy, to name just a few.

Come and join us to foster your ambitions and hone your abilities. We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Weiping Wu

Professor and Chair

UEP’s curriculum is built around a set of six core values:

  1. An appreciation of the inextricable linkages between social, economic and environmental issues and the ability to make policy and planning recommendations accordingly;
  2. An appreciation of the role of values in policy formation and planning and the ethical/social responsibility of policy and planning professionals to act accordingly;
  3. An appreciation of the deeply embedded nature of gender, age, race, class, disability, culture and sexual orientation in all aspects of public policy and planning;
  4. An appreciation of the centrality of spatial, social and environmental justice to all aspects of public policy and planning;
  5. An appreciation of the need to understand the role of individual and community rights and responsibilities in public policy and planning; and
  6. An appreciation of the need to move society toward the development of sustainable communities where there is a high quality of human life, delivered in a just and equitable manner while respecting the limits of supporting ecosystems.

 

http://ase.tufts.edu/uep/

 

Harvard University

Graduate School of Design

Department of Urban Planning & Design

Welcome to the Department of Urban Planning and Design

Welcome to the Department of Urban Planning and Design. It was at Harvard University that the first formal North American programs in city and regional planning (1923) and urban design (1960) were established. Since then, Harvard has played a leading role in the education of urban planners and urban designers.

The Department of Urban Planning and Design is home to both professions, offering a first professional degree in urban planning and a post-professional degree in urban design. Composed of internationally experienced scholars and practitioners, the department’s faculty explores the built environment from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and points of view. The department’s pedagogically innovative combination of interdisciplinary studios, lecture courses, seminars, and independent study, coupled with a relatively small student size of roughly 100 individuals drawn from around the world, creates an intimate, engaged educational atmosphere in which students thrive and learn.

Students take full advantage of the curricular and extracurricular offerings of the GSD’s other departments of landscape architecture and architecture. The Department also draws upon the significant resources of Harvard University as a whole. Two professorships are shared with the Kennedy School of Government and the Urban Planning program administers a joint degree program with the Law School and the Kennedy School. Students often cross-register in courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Kennedy School, the Business School, the Law School, and the School of Public Health. Students also cross-register in courses offered by the neighboring Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rahul Mehrotra

Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design

 

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/academic-programs/urban-planning-design/

 

Pratt Institute School of Architecture

City and Regional Planning Program

 

The mission of the graduate City and Regioinal Planning (CRP) program is to provide a professionally oriented education to a student body with diverse cultural, educational, and professional backgrounds. The CRP program focuses on participatory planning and sustainable, equitable communities, while stressing a multidisciplinary approach. Students graduate equipped with the knowledge of theory, technical capacity, collaborative skills, and critical thinking abilities necessary to plan for economic, environmental, and social justice in urban neighborhoods and metropolitan regions.

 

https://www.pratt.edu/academics/architecture/city-and-regional-planning/

 

Columbia University

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

 

The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University combines pioneering disciplinary experimentation with an uncompromising engagement with the world and the urgent questions of our time. Located in the heart of the Columbia Morningside campus in one of the most vibrant global cities in the world, the GSAPP is committed to imagining a future where architecture and cities are reinvented and recast in a more symbiotic relationship with the environment.

As a leader in shaping the fields of architecture and the built environment, Columbia’s GSAPP explores questions of global practice and fosters the development of new forms of design research and scholarship, opening up new territories for more meaningful practices of architecture and the design of cities, in an expanded field and within a context of social and environmental concerns. In t

his synthetic moment, the GSAPP draws together the geographical question of “where” with the temporal question of “when,” making visible the processes of rapid urbanization in a time of climate change. We bring these questions to bear on the thinking and design of everything, from the scale of a brick to that of a city.

At the GSAPP, we believe that the expanded disciplines of architecture and urbanism—as well as the redesigned figures of architects, urban planners, environmental and urban designers, real estate developers, preservationists, critics, and curators—are all formed through relentless probing and focused exploration toward the creation of new relationships, understandings and hierarchies with radically different consequences for research and practice as well as for the future of architecture, cities, and the environment.

All of our programs strive to offer the highest standards of expertise and knowledge combined with a generous and open-ended form of education, where long established curricula not only respond to the constant transformation of the world around us, but are also designed to give both faculty and students the means to lead this transformation. With a deep commitment to experimentation that weaves together cutting edge skills with incisive critical thinking, Columbia’s GSAPP is a laboratory for learning, where students and faculty engage one another in a spirit of intellectual respect and support. We do not believe that schools exist to prepare students for the world, but rather that the world is always already here, inflecting everything we do—from design studios to seminars, and from spaces of discussion and debate to laboratories for research and making. As such, our students believe they can contribute to the shaping of the world from the moment they arrive.

As a spatial network, Columbia’s GSAPP brings together a highly diverse group of people, faculty, and students from around the world at our locations in various cities and across continents. In New York, the School’s long commitment to engaging the city’s endlessly vibrant and condensed life continues to provide a strong context for understanding our industrialized past while imagining alternative futures. Through its global network of Studio-X locations, the school offers a generous infrastructure through which to imagine new pedagogical models: undermining notions of center-periphery and promoting relational thinking as both students and faculty navigate this expanded notion of what a school of architecture and the built environment can be. Engaging with these various sites and collaborating with our Studio-X Directors, new knowledge is produced that expands the canon of architectural and urban thinking, simultaneously opening up possibilities for new lines of inquiry and forms of practice.

Acting as a glue that binds our diverse programs and research interests together are the Centers and Labs, which are led by faculty and focused on various forms of research into the past, present, and future of architecture, cities, the environment, and technology. Many of these investigations enable a feedback loop between teaching and research, where faculty interests create a context for student explorations. Research at the GSAPP not only cuts across the various programs, it extends the school’s focus beyond its own walls to connect to other schools and institutes on Columbia’s campus.

Events, Exhibitions, and Publications constitute the heart of the GSAPP’s engagement with the public sphere. Through its vibrant events and programming, the school becomes a platform for discussion, debate, and the exchange of ideas in New York and across our Studio-X network, percolating ideas back through every studio, classroom, and workshop. The Ross Architecture Gallery and our publishing imprint, GSAPP Books, act in tandem to further question and expand the canon of architectural and urban education, bridging faculty research and student curiosity with original research into moments of architectural and urban history, often theorized and presented for the first time to international audiences through the highest levels of curatorial and critical practices.

Finally, Columbia’s GSAPP is best described as a coming together of the most outstanding and diverse faculty — spanning a gradient from pure scholarship to pure practice, with many hybrid models in between — and an equally creative and dynamic body of students. Our students bring together endless curiosity, talent, incurable optimism, and a sense of entrepreneurship, rendering them leaders in the field as they continue to strive to change the world.

 

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/about/letter-from-the-dean

 

Virginia Tech

Masters of Urban and Regional Planning Program

 

Welcome to UAP at Virginia Tech

The Urban Affairs and Planning (UAP) program serves the university, students, and society through our instruction, research, and outreach activities in urban planning and public policy. Our program applies an interdisciplinary, comparative, hands-on approach to instruction and research in two undergraduate degrees (B.A. in Public and Urban Affairs and B.S. in Environmental Policy and Planning), an accredited masters in Urban and Regional Planning (MURP), and a doctoral program in Planning, Governance & Globalization (PGG).

Our graduate program in Urban Affairs and Planning operates both at the main Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg in rural southwestern Virginia and in Old Town Alexandria, across the Potomac River from Washington DC in the metropolitan National Capital Region. At both campus locations, several simultaneous degree programs (with Landscape Architecture, Natural Resources, Public and International Affairs, and Public Administration) allow UAP master’s students to earn a second master’s degree by coordinating course requirements that save time and money compared to earning the two degrees separately.  Opportunities for both degree and non-degree students also exist to earn graduate-level certificates in Metropolitan Development, Economic Development, Geospatial Information Technology, Global Planning and International Development Studies, Watershed Management, and other area in one or both campus locations.

Within our undergraduate programs in Blacksburg, our goal is to provide an interdisciplinary education in the humanities, natural and social sciences, planning, and public policy to understand the consequences of human occupation of the landscape and solutions to address the problems that emanate from it. We seek to educate students broadly, while equipping them with the necessary planning and policy background, oral and written communication skills, computer applications, knowledge, and analytical thinking to find meaningful employment or graduate education in today’s competitive market.

Message from the Chairs

Teaching, research, and community engagement in our Urban Affairs and Planning (UAP) program rest on the premise that no single discipline or approach can explain the complexities of modern communities, thus requiring reaching across disciplinary and professional boundaries. In support of this philosophy, UAP faculty with expertise in economics, geography, history, sociology, political science, planning, law, social psychology, and engineering have come together across our two-campus program to provide students with a coherent vision of how communities work and how to facilitate positive changes within them.

Our teaching and research benefit both from the mix of backgrounds that our faculty members bring to the program—different disciplinary training and professional experiences prior to Virginia Tech—and from the third leg of our program, namely engagement and interaction with communities and institutions looking for help on their real-world problems.  As researchers, we seek to make a difference in the places around the world where we work.  This includes applied and theoretical efforts in such realms as bringing better sanitation to developing countries, helping distressed cities in the US revitalize their neighborhoods, promoting more bicycling in dense urban environments, reducing losses from earthquakes in China, understanding the influences of digital technologies on urban interactions, dealing with the problems of gentrification in low-income communities of color, and improving energy codes in housing.  We embrace students in these activities, both as researchers and in classroom and course studios and exercises.  Many of our classes have a strong, hands-on element where students regularly collaborate with representatives from planning, policy, and neighborhood institutions in project-based initiatives, most require students to go into the field to collect and analyze primary information to better understand a community context, and still others regularly tap into the expertise of leading practitioners as adjunct faculty or guest speakers.

Our dual location in rural southwestern Virginia and metropolitan Washington DC—embodied in our co-Chair model across our two locations—gives our program a unique vantage and a singular opportunity to immerse our faculty and students into diverse environments.  We invite you to explore our program further online or by contacting either of us or any other faculty member with questions.

 

http://www.uap.vt.edu/

 

University of Missouri – Kansas City

Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design

 

The Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design offers educational excellence for students seeking a career in the professions of architecture, urban planning and design, landscape architecture and interior architecture/project design. Our department builds partnerships with neighborhoods, communities and municipalities in the Kansas City region and beyond to engage in applied research and give students experience in their chosen field of study.

 

Urban Planning + Design addresses how we collectively improve cities and the built environment.

This requires analysis of the natural, visual, and physical form of cities as well as assessment of the political, social, and economic character of community life. Planners work on the leading issues facing cities and regions today including:

    • How can we improve the places in which we live?
    • Why are well-designed public spaces critical to urban life?
    • How should we rebuild after a disaster?
    • How can we improve bicycling and walking options?
    • How can we revitalize older neighborhoods?
    • Where should we build new development?
    • Is sprawl sustainable?
    • How can we get the public to participate in decisions about a neighborhood?
    • How should we decide what structures and landmarks are worth preserving?
    • How do we resolve disputes between conflicting land uses?

Students learn about cities and design from a hands-on perspective as part of this studio-based program. By their junior year, students will work with community stakeholders to develop and present their plans and designs. Our coursework actively engages the community in the planning process by modeling the cutting-edge of professional practice. Our emphasis on physical planning gives students the tools necessary to rebuild neighborhoods, to apply innovations in community design and to reform planning practice to meet the dynamic new urban problems of the 21st century.  Our graduates leave UMKC with a skill set in demand in the planning and design professions. Graduates report a high degree of satisfaction, and in 2014, a majority of graduates had planning-related jobs within a few months of graduation.

Career Development

We work with students to prepare them for the job market in urban planning. Students are required to complete a 240-hour internship as part of their studies. Students practice interviewing and resume-writing, and they are required to produce a writing sample and portfolio of their work. We also work with the local KC Metro Section of the American Planning Association to provide internship opportunities for planning students. Our location in the center of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area makes it convenient for students to contact and to get to know local employers.

Curriculum

The program puts an emphasis on physical planning and urban design with community-based projects assigned over the course of the six-semester studio sequence. In the first year, students learn introductory design process, planning analysis, and graphic communication. In the second year, planning exercises in studio include an analysis of the parcel and the grid, an international comparison of urbanisms, site planning, elements of the public realm, and planning program design and development. The last year of studio is spent on planning projects for actual clients addressing comprehensive planning and implementation. The full range of planning knowledge, skills and values are taught in the variety of studio and lecture classes.

 

http://info.umkc.edu/aupd/

 

Economic and Community Development Academic Program

ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Georgia Tech

School of City and Regional Planning

 

Georgia Tech has been sending innovative ideas and ambitious young planners into practice since 1952. In these times of rapid urbanization, climate change, and economic instability, the need for quality thinking, improved technique, and dedicated city and regional planning talent has never been greater. Our laboratories and classrooms in Atlanta are the exciting and challenging home to a next generation of urban planning, community development, and environmental protection research and practice. Please join us on this website or in person at our midtown Atlanta campus.

With world population projected to top nine billion by 2040, the need for talented planners to engage and address global problems has never been greater. We live in a rapidly changing world with the equivalent of seventy-five percent of the United States built environment expected to be newly constructed or renovated by 2035, and sea levels estimated to rise at least one meter in the next hundred years. China’s automobile ownership is rising twenty percent per year. The ratio of seniors to working adults in the U.S. is expected to rise by two-thirds in the next thirty years, and diabetes and heart disease rates are climbing exponentially. The demands on the planning profession are extraordinary.

Is our profession up to the task? Reviews of the exciting ideas in our journals and some of the path breaking proposals in our plans suggests we are on the right track, but the frustrations of our practitioners and scholars expressed at staff meetings and conferences, and the scarcity of planning voices in board rooms and legislative chambers, cast real doubt on whether we will have the needed influence. Turning this around depends heavily on planning schools, where the best ideas are developed and the ambitions and abilities of the next generation of planners are set.

Tech’s tradition of engaged planning education–embracing the organized profession and both the high performing and the needy agencies and firms of the region–coupled with its long standing passion for rigorous and rounded examination of planning work through values of science, governance, and justice, position the School of City and Regional Planning (SCaRP) as a strong leader for the critical next years of our profession. The creativity and energy of the faculty rival any in the nation. The excellent students illustrate the best qualities of public mindedness and seriousness of purpose. The affection of alumni for this program is palpable. The infrastructure offered by the Center for Geographic Information Systems and the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development leverage our energies. The vitality of Atlanta as an urban and environmental laboratory is exceptional.

If you are contemplating enrollment or employment in the School, these web pages will offer you a comprehensive picture of the work that goes on in SCaRP; additional questions may be directed to our officers as listed under About Us. Current students will find basics here, but should also check the School of City and Regional Planning T-Square site, available to those who are enrolled or employed at Georgia Tech. Professional planners, planning researchers, and citizen planners will find much of interest in the pages under Research and Engagement, and may want to participate in events listed under News and Events. Communities and organizations seeking our technical assistance will see examples of our work under Research and Engagement. Employers can learn how to recruit a Georgia Tech planner, and alumni will find information and tools designed to help them stay in touch with classmates and the School on the Alumni pages.

We appreciate your interest and look forward to teaching, learning, and working with you.

Bruce Stiftel, FAICP

Professor and Chair

 

http://www.planning.gatech.edu/

 

University of New Mexico

Community and Regional Planning

 

The Mission of the Community and Regional Planning (CRP) program is to plan and advocate with communities in the Southwest for their sustainable futures by delivering professional education, providing service, and engaging in useful research. The Program’s purpose is to provide future planners and professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to support planning that is responsive to people and place. Students of the CRP program work with communities, including their own, to create community-based plans, programs and policies that sustain and enhance their culture, resource base, built environment and economic vitality.

 

The Statement on Justice

The rich variety of human cultures is a great resource that this Planning Program attempts to nurture. Racism, sexism and homophobia are persistent and pervasive evils that undermine the human species’ hopes for creativity and peace. Prejudicial beliefs, and the structures of power that embody and inflict them, affect all Planning. Grappling honestly with questions about bias is an intrinsic part of what it means to be a Planner. Among these questions are:

  • Why and by what means does one culture or group impose its values on another?
  • What allows a “dominant” culture to push other values to the margins?
  • What means of individual and group resistance are available against the resulting imbalance of power?
  • What circumstances give rise to such resistance; when and why does it fail to arise?
  • What cultural models can be found for societies without significant racist, sexist, or homophobic beliefs?
  • How do the attitudes and methods of Planners amplify, rigidify, or challenge dominant values, especially when embodied in policy or physical design?
  • What constitutes justice in a multicultural society, and how can Planning contribute to its achievement

The faculty considers it of vital importance to create a university climate in which all of us can unlearn those prejudices with which we were raised. In both academic study and personal interaction, we aim to replace bias with a healthy and active respect for the common traits and wonderful differences which, taken together, make us human.

The CRP program also seeks to understand and exercise ecological responsibility, regionally and globally. Both in coursework and informally, students and faculty are asked to think together on this pressing issue. To create a just system for global distribution of resources and population; to halt and reverse the ongoing mass extinction of irreplaceable organisms (including human minorities); and to repair, redesign, and recycle our biologically-damaging infrastructure – these will be the life’s work of this generation of Planners, lest they be the last generation of any human profession. The above questions about prejudice can all be directed at the ecological situation; cultural and ecological issues must in fact be resolved interdependently. Rising to this formidable challenge requires serious commitment from Planning students and faculty, both in their personal and professional lives.

New Mexico, both culturally and ecologically on the margins of the United States, provides excellent opportunities to study issues which are often marginalized, and to support voices from outside the “mainstream”.

 

http://saap.unm.edu/academic-programs/community-regional-planning/

 

State University of New York, University at Albany

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Geography and Planning

 

Welcome to the Department of Geography and Planning at the University at Albany. Our students are educated to succeed in a broad range of careers in the Geography and Planning professions.

 

Undergraduate programs include a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies & Planning as well as an Undergraduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Analysis. The department is also the home of the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies with a faculty-initiated concentration in Globalization Studies.

 

Graduate programs include a Master of Arts in Geography and a Masters in Regional Planning as well as a Graduate Certificate in GIS and Spatial Analysis and a Graduate Certificate in Urban Policy. Our department also offers a combined Joint Master of Regional Planning and Doctor of Law (MRP/JD) in conjunction with Albany Law School.

 

About the Department

Teaching and research in the department emphasize urban, social, physical, and cultural geography; city and regional planning; urban design; remote sensing; cartography and geographic information systems; environmental studies; climatology; computer and statistical models; area (regional) studies; urban and regional planning methods; economic development; small town and rural land-use planning. Members of the faculty have strong international links with China, Russia, Australia, and various countries in Africa, Latin America and Western Europe.

 

http://www.albany.edu/gp/index.php

 

Pratt Institute School of Architecture

City and Regional Planning Program

 

The mission of the graduate City and Regioinal Planning (CRP) program is to provide a professionally oriented education to a student body with diverse cultural, educational, and professional backgrounds. The CRP program focuses on participatory planning and sustainable, equitable communities, while stressing a multidisciplinary approach. Students graduate equipped with the knowledge of theory, technical capacity, collaborative skills, and critical thinking abilities necessary to plan for economic, environmental, and social justice in urban neighborhoods and metropolitan regions.

 

https://www.pratt.edu/academics/architecture/city-and-regional-planning/

 

University of Oregon

Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management

 

Welcome to PPPM!

The Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM) is concerned with the ways governments, nonprofit organizations, and other institutions address some of the most important problems facing society today. With the unique policy and planning environment of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, PPPM builds off this region’s international reputation for livability, pioneering planning, and innovative policy as we explore how to make the world a better place. To pursue these goals, the programs are organized around five areas of expertise.

 

Mission Statement

The PPPM Department prepares innovative public leaders through a challenging and applied curriculum, creates and disseminates new knowledge, and engages in intensive partnerships to solve society’s most pressing economic, environmental and social issues.

 

Guiding Principles

In pursuing our mission, PPPM is guided by:

  • dedication to the highest standards of scholarship by our students and faculty;
  • informed theory and empirical evidence;
  • a commitment to engage the civic community – public, private, and non-profit – in democratic processes addressing economic, environmental, and social issues;
  • an eagerness to seek good ideas and approaches from around the world and test their transferability from one area of the globe to another;
  • an approach that builds on the existing strengths of communities and organizations – to increase their capacity to take advantage of opportunities and respond effectively to challenges;
  • an interest in work that ranges from local to regional to national to international; and
  • a commitment to ecological, social, and economic sustainability.

Because of the desire to maintain the integrity and accreditation of each degree program, PPPM has established separate statements of objectives. The existing statements are as follows.

Program Objectives

The objectives of the Master of Public Administration Program are to:

  1. utilize a cohort structure, rigorous coursework, and extensive real world applications to prepare students for outstanding careers in government and nonprofit service.
  2. promote evidence-based decision making in the government and nonprofit sectors by emphasizing an active and influential research agenda among faculty and students.
  3. incorporate service to public and nonprofit agencies into the curriculum to provide a rigorous career preparation for students while serving the involved agencies. This dual purpose informs our research and benefits the region, the state, and the profession.

The objectives of the Master’s Program in Community and Regional Planning are to:

  1. prepare policy-oriented planners to assume generalist planning and planning-related positions, with emphasis on issues of significance to the Northwestern U.S. and the Pacific Basin region;
  2. advance the state of knowledge in the field of planning by engaging in planning-related research, the results of which are shared with others through public presentations, journal articles, professional reports and meetings, and other appropriate media and fora; and
  3. provide planning assistance to Oregon communities and rural areas, emphasizing the integration of planning process, methods, and theory with other substantive planning knowledge in actual applications of community and regional plan making and policy analysis.

The objective of the Bachelor’s Degree Program in Planning, Public Policy & Management is to provide students with a broad professional background as well as a sound basis for graduate study in fields such as planning, public policy and management, business, law, journalism, and social welfare. In addition, graduates are prepared for entry-level positions in a variety of public service agencies and organizations.

 

https://pppm.uoregon.edu/about-pppm

 

University of New Mexico

Community and Regional Planning

 

The Mission of the Community and Regional Planning (CRP) program is to plan and advocate with communities in the Southwest for their sustainable futures by delivering professional education, providing service, and engaging in useful research. The Program’s purpose is to provide future planners and professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to support planning that is responsive to people and place. Students of the CRP program work with communities, including their own, to create community-based plans, programs and policies that sustain and enhance their culture, resource base, built environment and economic vitality.

 

The Statement on Justice

The rich variety of human cultures is a great resource that this Planning Program attempts to nurture. Racism, sexism and homophobia are persistent and pervasive evils that undermine the human species’ hopes for creativity and peace. Prejudicial beliefs, and the structures of power that embody and inflict them, affect all Planning. Grappling honestly with questions about bias is an intrinsic part of what it means to be a Planner. Among these questions are:

  • Why and by what means does one culture or group impose its values on another?
  • What allows a “dominant” culture to push other values to the margins?
  • What means of individual and group resistance are available against the resulting imbalance of power?
  • What circumstances give rise to such resistance; when and why does it fail to arise?
  • What cultural models can be found for societies without significant racist, sexist, or homophobic beliefs?
  • How do the attitudes and methods of Planners amplify, rigidify, or challenge dominant values, especially when embodied in policy or physical design?
  • What constitutes justice in a multicultural society, and how can Planning contribute to its achievement

The faculty considers it of vital importance to create a university climate in which all of us can unlearn those prejudices with which we were raised. In both academic study and personal interaction, we aim to replace bias with a healthy and active respect for the common traits and wonderful differences which, taken together, make us human.

The CRP program also seeks to understand and exercise ecological responsibility, regionally and globally. Both in coursework and informally, students and faculty are asked to think together on this pressing issue. To create a just system for global distribution of resources and population; to halt and reverse the ongoing mass extinction of irreplaceable organisms (including human minorities); and to repair, redesign, and recycle our biologically-damaging infrastructure – these will be the life’s work of this generation of Planners, lest they be the last generation of any human profession. The above questions about prejudice can all be directed at the ecological situation; cultural and ecological issues must in fact be resolved interdependently. Rising to this formidable challenge requires serious commitment from Planning students and faculty, both in their personal and professional lives.

New Mexico, both culturally and ecologically on the margins of the United States, provides excellent opportunities to study issues which are often marginalized, and to support voices from outside the “mainstream”.

 

http://saap.unm.edu/academic-programs/community-regional-planning/

 

Iowa State University

Department of Community and Regional Planning

 

What is Planning?

The profession of planning exists to help communities manage changes to their economy, environment and quality of life through recommendations such as the use of public transit systems, development of walkable communities, development of affordable housing, sustainable practices, or historic preservation. Planners work to make communities more livable by regulating land use, creating design guidelines, or developing finance packages while working to ensure that all members of the community are involved and represented.

The Department of Community and Regional Planning at Iowa State University is one of the nation’s largest and longest-established planning programs, and one of only 16 accredited undergraduate planning programs in the United States. The department has an outstanding international faculty committed to excellence in the teaching of planning at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

We are dedicated to working with students to develop the skills and experience to become practicing planning professionals in a variety of contexts. Students learn about land-use planning and zoning, environmental planning, transportation planning, site planning and urban design. Students regularly work with real communities to understand the challenges and achievements of planning.

We also undertake high-quality research on behalf of federal and state government, business, the nonprofit sector and other funding agencies, all of which feeds into the courses we teach. This is combined with strong linkages to planning practice and other professions, which ensures our graduates are fully prepared for exciting careers in planning, urban and regional governance, and a wide range of related activities.

 

http://www.design.iastate.edu/communityplanning/

 

University of North Carolina

Department of City and Regional Planning

 

Founded in 1946, DCRP is one of the largest, oldest, and best-known programs of graduate planning education and research in North America.

We are located in the heart of the country’s oldest state university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, founded in 1793. The state of North Carolina, the Research Triangle region, and the community of Chapel Hill are ideally suited to serve as the home of a nationally ranked program in city and regional planning.

 

We are among the first ten planning education programs in the United States.  The original bases of the Department and its program were ideas  about regionalism (hence the degree, Master of City and Regional Planning), broadly conceived development planning, and the application of social science methods to practical problems of government that were being  explored on the Chapel Hill campus in the 1940’s.

 

This was the first planning department to be established with its principal university base in the social sciences rather than in architecture or landscape design and to demonstrate the interdisciplinary union of social science, design and engineering.  We have retained and strengthened that social science legacy through the multidisciplinary research and teaching of our faculty.

 

http://planning.unc.edu/