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UF Urban and Regional Planning Attends 2025 Florida APA Conference
UF Urban and Regional Planning Attends 2025 Florida APA Conference In September, faculty and students from the University of Florida’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning traveled to Daytona Beach…
MURP Students Victoria Fountain and Edgar Medero Receive 2025 American Planning Association (APA) Foundation Diversity Scholarship
MURP Students Victoria Fountain and Edgar Medero Receive 2025 American Planning Association (APA) Foundation Diversity Scholarship Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning students Victoria Fountain and Edgar Medero are the…
Meet Our 2025-2026 MURP Mentors
Meet Our 2025-2026 MURP Mentors Our 2025-2026 MURP Mentorship Program is in full swing! We’ve paired accomplished planning professionals with students in the final year of their MURP program as…
Dr. Yan Wang Featured in Topos Magazine
Dr. Yan Wang Featured in Topos Magazine Dr. Yan Wang, Associate Professor in the University of Florida’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning, was recently featured in Topos Magazine, a…
Dr. Kathryn Frank’s Research on Rural Planning Published in the Journal of the American Planning Association
Dr. Kathryn Frank Publishes JAPA article on Rural Planning and Community Development Dr. Kathryn Frank’s recent article “What Can Rural Planning Learn from Community Development? Some Lessons Moving Forward” was…
Director’s Interdisciplinary Innovation Grant Awards Spark New Research at the University of Florida’s School of Landscape Architecture and Planning
Director’s Interdisciplinary Innovation Grant Awards Spark New Research at the University of Florida’s School of Landscape Architecture and Planning Four research teams from the University of Florida’s School of Landscape…
Finding a Path in Planning: How UF’s Online MURP Program Helped One Alumna Find Her Calling
Finding a Path in Planning: How UF’s Online MURP Program Helped One Alumna Find Her Calling Melissa Ruth, AICP, at her graduation in 2022 Melissa Ruth, AICP, never saw herself…
MURP Alumna Helena Parola Appointed Director of Jacksonville Planning and Development Department
MURP Alumna Helena Parola Appointed Director of Jacksonville Planning and Development Department Helena Parola (MURP ‘97) has been appointed director of the City of Jacksonville’s Planning and Development Department. The…
Welcoming Elizabeth Abernethy, AICP, as Planner in Residence
MURP Alumna Wendy Halsey Named Associate Vice President for Facilities Operations at Wake Forest University
MURP Alumna Wendy Halsey Named Associate Vice President for Facilities Operations at Wake Forest University Wendy Halsey (MURP ’05) has been named Associate Vice President for Facilities Operations in facilities,…
50 Years of Success: The Origins of Urban Planning at the University of Florida
50 Years of Success: The Origins of Urban Planning at the University of Florida Over the last 50 years, the University of Florida’s Urban and Regional Planning department has played…
Dr. Yan Wang Granted Tenure and Receives Promotion to Associate Professor
Dr. Yan Wang Granted Tenure and Receives Promotion to Associate Professor Dr. Yan Wang from the University of Florida Department of Urban and Regional Planning has been granted tenure and…
The UF Student Planning Association: Empowering the Next Generation of Planners
The UF Student Planning Association: Empowering the Next Generation of Planners SPA visited NV5 in Alachua, where they learned more about some of the projects the firm is working on…
UF URP Hosts End-of-Year Celebration To Close Out Another Successful Year
UF URP Hosts End-of-Year Celebration To Close Out Another Successful Year The University of Florida’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning recently celebrated the end of another successful year at…
Dr. Yan Wang Receives NSF’s Most Prestigious CAREER Award to Lead AI Research for Spatial Regeneration Planning
Dr. Yan Wang Receives NSF’s Most Prestigious CAREER Award to Lead AI Research for Spatial Regeneration Planning Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional…
URP Holds Student Logo Design Competition for Department’s 50th Anniversary
MURP student Matthew Mullings The UF Department of Urban and Regional Planning recently held a design competition where students were tasked with creating a logo for the department’s 50th anniversary,…
MURP Graduates Achieve 100% Pass Rate on AICP Exam
All 23 recent Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning graduates have passed the AICP examination. The AICP exam’s pass rate in the state of Florida is 58%, and 66% nationally,…
AI and Cities: An International Forum for Innovation and Collaboration
AI and Cities: An International Forum for Innovation and Collaboration Program Keynote Speakers Registration Awards We are excited to invite you to the inaugural AI and Cities: An International Forum…
Two MURP Students Honored with American Planning Association (APA) Foundation Diversity Scholarship
Two MURP Students Honored with American Planning Association (APA) Foundation Diversity Scholarship Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning students Kaley Arboleda and Lauryn Ballard are the latest recipients of the…
UF Urban and Regional Planning Takes On the 2024 Florida APA Conference
UF Urban and Regional Planning Takes On the 2024 Florida APA Conference The UF Department of Urban and Regional Planning recently attended the 2024 Florida APA Conference in Tampa, where…
ACSP Seattle 2024: UF URP Recap
ACSP Seattle 2024: UF URP RecapExplore the highlights of URP faculty and students showcasing their research at this year’s ACSP conference. November 25th, 2024 Faculty and students from the University…
URP Student Internships Summer 2024
URP Student InternshipsSummer 2024 August 16, 2024 In the summer of 2024, our Master of Urban and Regional Planning students took on a variety of internships, applying their skills and…
URP Continues Engagement in Dominican Republic
URP Graduate Spotlight 2023-2024
2024 URP Student Awards Celebration
UF MURP Student Anand Bhatia Attends Lake Nona Space Forum
Dr. Kristin Larsen, FAICP, Inducted to the American Institute of Certified Planners College of Fellows
Dr. Shenhao Wang’s Research on Cities’ Economic Fortunes
URP Faculty Renee Tapp Contributes to Tampa Bay Times
From Ghana to Gainesville: The Story of Silas Achidago’s Journey in Planning
UF MURP Alumni Represent on APA’s Sun Coast Executive Board
URP Class Presents Downtown Newberry Revitalization Proposal to City Commission
Jessica Alvarez, URP class of 2010, named ’40 Under 40′ by Mass Transit Magazine
Pathways to Home: URP Students Propose Solutions for Affordable Housing and Accessible Transportation in Gainesville
MURP Online Student Awarded APA Foundation Diversity Scholarship
URP South Florida Alumni Mixer 2023
Planetizen Ranks UF Top 25 Planning Program
UF Planning Program Ranks Top 25 in United StatesPlanetizen ranks the Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) program at the University of Florida as a Top 25 planning program…
15th Annual Ernest R. Bartley Memorial Lecture: A Focus on Affordable Housing with Ashon Nesbitt
ACSP Chicago 2023: UF URP Recap
ACSP 2023 Conference: UF Speaker Schedule
Punta Cana URP Summer Experience 2023
UF Urban and Regional Planning at the the 2023 Florida APA Conference
2023 Florida APA Conference: UF Speaker Sessions
Dr. Ruth Steiner Discusses Traffic Congestion On WUSF
Announcing Kyle Dost, AICP, as Incoming MURP Online Program Director and Instructional Assistant Professor
Shaping Communities: URP Students’ Summer 2023 Internships Across the United States
Dr. Kristin Larsen: Balancing Preservation, Innovation, and Education in Urban Planning at the University of Florida
Professor Zhong-Ren Peng Shares Publication on AI’s Role in Urban Planning
Professor Zhong-Ren Peng Shares Publication on AI’s Role in Urban PlanningDr. Zhong-Ren Peng and his student team have conducted a study on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in urban planning, offering valuable…
UF URP Faculty to Edit Journal of Planning Education Research (JPER)
UF URP Faculty to Edit Journal of Planning Education Research (JPER)University of Florida’s Department Chair of Urban and Regional Planning, Dr. Ivy Hu, earns editor role at the Journal of…
