The Chicago Tribune interviewed P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, about the closure of northbound Lake Shore Drive over the Chicago River due to a support…
UPP’s Rachel Weber and James J. Stukel Presidential Professor, David Merriman, explain the effects of TIF’s on the Lincoln Yards project and surrounding businesses. Opposition to the Lincoln Yards project has been particularly strong…
CBS 2 (WBBM-TV) interviewed P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, about the support beam failure on the Lake Shore Drive bridge over the Chicago River. Sriraj…
In January 2019, MUPP student Kira Baltutis joined architecture students representing ENSA Toulouse and Aayojan Jaipur universities in a two-week field analysis to study the crucial role of water planning in the rapidly-growing…
2018 was an eventful year for the Department of Urban Planning and Policy. See the link below to read some of the department’s achievements and events. What’s UPP: 2018 in Review
Moira Zellner, Director of the Urban Data Visualization Lab and Associate Professor of UPP, recently presented at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Series. Zellner’s presentation was entitled, “Participatory Complex Systems…
The Atlantic interviewed Joshua Drucker, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy, about President Trump’s attempts to retain and boost manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Drucker also addresses what power, if any,…
P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, was interviewed by NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ-TV) during an investigative report on confusing intersections in the Chicago area. Roundabouts are…
Siim Sööt – The man behind the Sööt family fund You’re driving along the highway and all of a sudden – boom! – you hit traffic. No idea what’s going on ahead, and…
Kelly LeRoux, UIC associate professor of public administration, is interviewed in a Chicago Tribune story about the Chicago Park District inspector general’s review of the Grant Park Conservancy and its president’s selling of…
