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Erin Fowler and Ian Siljestrom have stories featured in the Florida APA Affordable Housing Newsletter.
Urban and Regional Planning Department faculty member Dr. Christopher Silver recently had a book published by Routledge in its Research in Sustainable Planning and Development in Asia series.
The UF Department of Urban & Regional Planning is excited to announce and offer a new on-campus Graduate Certificate in Urban Analytics for current and prospective students.
Check out the variety of ACSP conference sessions this year featuring UF’s Urban Planning Department
Former Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan spoke to students, faculty, and alumni of the URP Department at the 13th Annual Earnest R. Bartley Memorial Lecture
“There is not a single place that you can go in the state of Florida where you will not run into a planner with a UF degree. Those connections are …
“The future is open and as planners, we have the power to bring people together.”
“As planners, it’s fulfilling to be able to identify an issue, analyze it, and then prescribe policy solutions that we can see make an impact.”
Earl Starnes was faculty at the University of Florida from 1976 – 1993. Starnes was a founding father of UF’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning, serving as chair from …
Dr. Wang receives research grants from National Science Foundation Assistant Professor Wang is working to redefine curb environments in Gainesville, FL and to combat COVID-19 misinformation across the United States
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Take a look at the FL APA Conference 2021 schedule, featuring 10+ UF URP alumni session hosts.
URP Alum Joins UF PDC as Senior PlannerRachel Mandell, Class of 2020, is a Senior Planner with UF’s Planning, Design, and Construction Department
Rachel Mandell, Class of 2020
August 5, 2021
Rachel Mandell, …
URP student Emilee Aguerrebere assisted resiliency projects for Port St. Joe, FL, following Category 5 Hurricane Michael. She was a graduate research assistant for the interdisciplinary Florida Resilient Cities Program …
Master of Urban and Regional Planning students used their summer internships to gain advanced planning skills and experiences while making a difference to communities across the country and internationally.
Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng is quoted in a news article by The Guardian about the collapse of the condominium in Surfside, FL. He discusses the vulnerability of older construction to saltwater …
Dr. Kristin Larsen was elected Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).
In an article for The Conversation, Dr. Ruth Steiner examines the potential positive impacts of Biden’s American Jobs Plan on urban mass transit systems and their cities.
Larissa Krinos, a 4+1 combined degree student in the BSSBE and MURP programs, was the 2021 recipient of the College of DCP’s Undergraduate Leadership and Service Award.
The faculty of the UF Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP) are pleased to announce the recipients of the annual URP student awards for 2020-21.
Howard University announces the appointment of URP alumnus Timothy L. Millner as executive director of Physical Facilities Management.
Dr. Ruth Steiner views COVID-related challenges as an opportunity to reimagine the use of public spaces.
At the Shimberg Center, URP doctoral and master’s students manage statewide housing data and conduct studies about the housing-transportation relationship, the pandemic’s impacts on housing vulnerability, and housing flood risk.
URP’s Dr. Christopher Silver and scholars from the United Kingdom make the case for planning programs to teach about green infrastructure (GI) to advance sustainability goals. They found UF’s School …
Assistant Professor Tepe models urban development using economic, statistical, and software tools.
Internationally recognized city planner and author, Victor Dover, FAICP, will give the keynote address on livable communities and sustainable development at the DCP Research Symposium on November 9 at 2:45pm.
A team led by URP doctoral candidate Wei Zhai and Professor Zhong-Ren Peng received a prestigious Microsoft grant to understand human mobility during extreme weather events.
Afsheen Sadaf is the recipient of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s 2020 Marsha Ritzdorf Award for Best Student Work on Diversity, Social Justice and the Role of Women …
Florida State Senator Rodríguez shared his journey to pass a “transformative” sea level rise planning law at URP’s annual Earnest R. Bartley Memorial Lecture.
Assistant Professor Wang develops data-informed planning for smart resilient cities.
Dr. Yan Wang received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study misinformation and risk communication during the coronavirus pandemic.