A national research study revealed that CTA rapid transit stations near office properties had fewer riders since 2019, while ridership near stations with parks and recreational facilities showed an increase in riders. In…
UPP Professor Joshua Drucker was quoted in two articles in today’s edition of the Chicago Tribune on the economic impact assessment of the recently cancelled Navigator CO2 pipeline. The pipeline was presented as a…
April Jackson, associate professor of Urban Planning and Policy, and co-authors, Anaid Yerena, Ivis Garcia, C.Aujean Lee, Ben Chrisinger, Stacy Harwood, and Laura Harjo have published a Special Issue in the Journal of…
Ning Ai, associate professor of Urban Planning and Policy, was interviewed by the Associated Press to comment on two recent reports by the US Environmental Protection Agency on updated food waste management strategies.
Urban Planning and Policy 2016 graduate, Ciere Boatright, has been appointed commissioner for Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Her appointment will begin on Nov. 20. You can…
UPP students won two awards for their GIS research posters at two separate conferences last week! Graduate students Bailey Foster and Grace Li won the award for best student poster at the Illinois…
Adelante Chicago’s Lourdes Duarte interviewed Great Cities Institute director, Teresa Córdova, on the Institute’s Latino research initiative. Watch the interview on YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUIOBwesOLc&t=4s.
Green Economy Firms in the Chicago Region groups together clusters of related industries and examines those clusters to better understand the Green Economy in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. The report compiles a list…
Food for Thought: Food Ecosystem in the Chicago Region tracks employment, establishment, and annual wage changes between 2010 to 2020 and highlights the weaknesses in the regions food supply chain in the wake…
Annie Howard, MUPP '21|Posted on September 07, 2023
When Andy Bavas was appointed the director of graduate studies for the newly-founded Masters of Urban Planning and Policy (MUPP) program at what was then called the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle,…
