DCP Alumni Spotlight: Christen Hutton, AICP
Hutton is a project manager at Schmidt Nichols, an award-winning landscape architecture and urban planning firm.
DCP Faculty Awarded by UF and City of Gainesville
The UF-City of Gainesville Research Awards Showcase was held at Emerson Alumni Hall on Oct. 9 to celebrate the seven winning research projects selected last year. The teams presented their completed work and results at this event. As part of the University of Florida’s Strategic Development Plan, UF Senior Vice President and COO Charlie Lane …
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Redden Appreciates Larsen’s Mentorship
Alumni Profile – Tyeshia Redden, Urban and Regional PlanningUrban and Regional Planning alum Tyeshia Redden graduated from our doctoral program with a focus on planning two summers ago. She recently worked on the Porters Community project with our URP program. You can read more about the project here. Can you tell us about your career?I …
A New Porters Community Narrative Engages and Empowers the Neighborhood
Porters neighborhood residents and stakeholders have created a new narrative, which is an innovative tool to communicate what makes the neighborhood special and should be protected in the face of development pressures. The “Porters Community,” as it is often called, is a historically African American neighborhood located in Gainesville between downtown and the University of …
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Making Your Ideal Neighborhood
Have you ever wanted to design your ideal neighborhood? Put a park here, place a retail store there. Well, the children in Gainesville’s Porters neighborhood got that chance thanks to Urban and Regional Planning Adjunct Lecturer Laura Dedenbach’s URP 4000 class. Held at the Porters Community Center, the children in the afterschool program, with the …
Student Profile – Jarrell Smith
Jarrell Smith graduated from DCP’s Urban and Regional Planning Program this spring. He has been in the spotlight recently as he was selected for the prestigious Eno Foundation Award and was named the grand prize winner of the Transportation Planning Division Student Paper Competition. DCP Communications recently spoke with Smith to ask him questions about …
Student Wins Transportation Planning Division Student Paper Competition
Jarrell Smith, a University of Florida urban and regional planning student who recently graduated, won the Transportation Planning Division (TPD) Student Paper Competition. He actually received the call on the day he graduated from UF. “I was sitting down eating lunch the day of my graduation when I got the call that I had won …
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