UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs Dean Michael Pagano was presented with the Aaron Wildavsky Award, a lifetime achievement award, by the Association for Budgeting & Financial Management (ABFM). ABFM promotes…
The Fall 2019 issue of CUPPA Magazine is now available for download. Feature stories include how alums Greg Cameron, MPA ’85, president and CEO of the Joffrey Ballet, and Chris Devins, MUPP ’12,…
Gizmondo UK highlighted findings from a 2017 workers-rights report from Nik Theodore, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, who examined Houston’s day labor market and wage theft in the aftermath of Hurricane…
In “I Have Rights:’ How Undocumented Laborers Are Exploited During Disaster Recovery,” on Gizmodo Earther, CUED Director Nik Theodore discussed the role of immigrant workers after natural disasters as second responders. The story…
In an op-ed appearing in the Chicago Tribune, Kate Lowe, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy, writes that Chicago’s soon-to-conclude electric scooter pilot program doesn’t address the city’s most pressing transportation…
(Flickr) In an interview with Jacobin magazine, Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, talks about her 2015 book “From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago” and what…
Where do you get your water? Find out using this interactive map by CityXones in collaboration with the UPP Urban Data Visualization Lab. In the link you can also read more on where…
GCI’s Teresa Cordova is an Hispanic Heritage Month Honoree by Susana A. Mendoza, Illinois State Comptroller. Mendoza wrotes that Cordova “has been instrumental in affecting economic development policy and neighborhood change in Chicago.” Dr. Córdova…
PC: Creative Commons/ Adam Jones Crain’s Chicago Business quotes UPP Professor John Betancur in a story about a proposed City of Chicago ordinance to protect homeowners in gentrifying areas from ongoing unsolicited contact…
Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, is quoted in a Crain’s Chicago Business column on current real estate trends in Chicago’s central business district, including decreased building capital flows, or…
