P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, offers insight in a Block Club Chicago article about a proposed street direction change in the Oakland neighborhood on the…
Nik Theodore was quoted in two stories in The American Prospect exploring issues impacting workers and unions. Theodore states that, although the worker center movement has made strides, it’s only the beginning. Read…
In a Crain’s Chicago Business story on the potential impact of $2 billion in federal COVID-19 rescue funds for Chicago includes comments from Michael Pagano, dean of the UIC College of Urban Planning…
Kate Lowe, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy, joined WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” for a panel discussion on public transit’s post-pandemic future. Watch the segment and read a related online story at: https://go.news.uic.edu/2021471
Part beer innovator, part restaurateur and a fully accomplished entrepreneur, Josh Deth, MUPP ’05, has been named recipient of the Jim Marek CUPPA Alumni Association Appreciation Award. Deth is the owner and operator…
A Chicago Sun-Times editorial board column on the future of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile includes comments from Teresa Cordova, director of the Great Cities Institute and professor of urban planning and policy at UIC. https://go.news.uic.edu/20213182
WHTM-TV, the ABC affiliate in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, interviewed Beth Gutelius, research director in the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC and senior researcher at the Great Cities Institute at UIC, in a…
Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at UIC, joined NPR Illinois’ “Statewide” to discuss her assertion that state and local money in the new COVID-19 relief law is needed.
The National Interest magazine quotes Kate Lowe, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy, in a story on declining ridership and revenue facing the nation’s transit agencies, particularly the Washington’s Metro system, due…
As digital technologies continue to remake urban planning and its engagement with the city, planners themselves must remain thoughtful about how these tools change and aid their work. Of course, the increasing datafication…
