City and Regional Planning
Planners’ skills are critical for solving the most vexing problems facing our world today. Worldwide, planners are managing the continuing migration to cities; working to upgrade slum housing, and finding practical solutions to problems of climate change and environmental degradation. Closer to home, planners are renewing and redesigning the nation’s characterless suburbs; protecting vulnerable communities from the effects of the financial meltdown; and turning sustainability and resiliency from buzzwords into best practices.
City and Regional Planning gives students the knowledge and skills needed to take on these challenges: preparing them for a fulfilling career in the private, public, and/or nonprofit sectors. Students gain the quantitative, qualitative and digital skills needed to analyze complex problems and to visualize alternative futures for communities. They learn how historical and institutional contexts shape planning practice, as well as how to work with community members to leverage their knowledge and skills. They gain in-depth knowledge in at least one of six areas of concentration: Land Use and Environmental Policy; Urban Design; Housing, Community and Economic Development, Smart Cities; Public and Private Development; and Sustainable Transportation and Infrastructure Planning.
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Urban Film Youth Mentorship Project
- Dr. Matthew Kenyatta, The Philadelphia Film Factory (Philm Factory), and We Embrace Fatherhood
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THE MUSEUM OF HIDDEN GENIUS: An Atlas of Afrotech
- Dr. Matthew Kenyatta