Kate Lowe, UIC assistant professor of urban planning and policy, is interviewed in a Chicago Tribune article about a proposed plan for a half-mile walkway under the CTA’s Brown Line in Lakeview. Lowe…
The National League of Cities with it’s report co-authors, Michael A. Pagano, UIC CUPPA Dean, and Christiana McFarland, NLC Center for City Solutions Research Director, released City Fiscal Conditions 2017 on September 12.…
Michael Sewall, MUPP ’17 received American Planning Association – Illinois Chapter (APA IL) award for his master’s project ‘Vision for a New Lawrence – Corridor Plan’ prepared for the Greater Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce…
The EDA University Center in UIC’s Nathalie P. Voorhees Center recently detailed growth in the Chicago region’s green economy. Their May 2017 report, “Sizing Up Our Region’s Green Economy,” was cited in an article in…
A 2016 study from Urban Planning and Policy Professor John Betancur detailed the Pilsen neighborhood’s declining Hispanic population in Crain’s Chicago Business. Crain’s covered a proposed 30-story apartment tower addition to a property in…
A Chicago Defender cover story on affordable housing and gentrification features several quotes from Stacey Sutton, UIC assistant professor of urban planning and policy. https://chicagodefender.com/affordable-housing-reclaim-remain-rebuild/
Rachel Weber, professor of urban planning and policy, is interviewed in a Crain’s Chicago Business investigative story on “blight-fighting” TIF funds being diverted to pay for Navy Pier renovations. http://bit.ly/2uhNyCg (subscription may be required)
Michael Harris, President of the Society of Black Urban Planners (UIC), was quoted in an article titled Chicago Programs Aim to Lead Minority Youth to City Planning on Nextcity.org. You can read the article…