The Spring 2023 Master of City Design (MCD) Studio has been awarded the American Planning Association – Illinois (APA-IL) Chapter’s Student Project Award. This marks the third year in a row that CUPPA…
Rachel Weber, professor of Urban Planning and Policy, was quoted in an article on Chicago Public Schools transparency thru the Near South High School planning process, which was published on the Illinois Answers Project…
CUPPA Dean Stacey Swearingen White was selected to participate in the 2023-24 President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP) sponsored by University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen. As a PELP fellow, Dean Swearingen White will…
When he stepped in as the new department head for the Urban Planning and Policy Department within CUPPA at the start of 2020, Professor Nik Theodore had grand plans. More than anything else,…
Angela Hurlock, Chief Executive Officer of Claretian Associates, is joining the Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement as the second Janet L. Smith Practitioner in Residence. Hurlock officially began her…
UIC’s Government Finance Research Center (GFRC) released its first report for the Illinois General Assembly’s commissioned study on water rate setting. This first project focuses on the Lake Michigan Service Area. Read the…
July 17, 2023 As municipalities contract with the City of Chicago to supply fresh water from Lake Michigan, a new report from University of Illinois Chicago researchers recommends that plans include supplying recycled…
IPCE and researchers delivered the second community survey report for the Independent Monitoring Team for the ongoing Chicago Police Consent Decree, led by Maggie Hickey. The Independent Monitoring Team submitted the second Community…
Urban planning is not the same profession as it was in 1986, when Curt Winkle, associate professor of Urban Planning and Policy, began teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Conversations…
As a profession, urban planning carries lofty ambitions: to imagine new, transformative futures for the places where we live, work, and play, seeing potential and hopeful outcomes that often take years to accomplish.…
