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…
Do you know of someone highly dedicated to UIC and CUPPA who is making a real difference for the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and its students? Perhaps they are providing jobs/internships, offering…
South Side Weekly quotes James Lewis, a senior research specialist in UIC’s Great Cities Institute, in a story on political representation and fragmentation in the Englewood neighborhood. Lewis says issues of political power…
MPA student Kori Bertrun recently published a piece entitled, “Why AmeriCorps?” in the PA Times. Kori studied national service organizations in Spring 2018 under the direction of Dr. LeRoux and outlined reasons why AmeriCorps is an invaluable…
