City & 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.

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Events

Exhibition Research at Weitzman City & Regional Planning September 16, 2024 - September 20, 2024

Lecture Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur City & Regional Planning September 19, 2024 6:00 pm

Lecture Solar Energy Development in the US: Obstacles and Opportunities Presented with Climate Week at Penn City & Regional Planning October 16, 2024 2:00 pm

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News

In the Media The Outsized Cost of Expanding US Roads September 6, 2024

In the Media American households struggle with sky-high energy bills during extreme summer heat September 3, 2024

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Story Weitzman Fall 2024 Lecture Series Opens September 4 August 23, 2024

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The 32nd Edition of ‘Panorama’

Explore the latest issue of Panorama, the annual student publication from the Department of City & Regional Planning, for work on social inequity, housing, transit, and climate change.

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Learn about Urban Spatial Analytics

The one-year MUSA program combines coursework on GIS, spatial analysis, data science, statistics, R and python programming, data visualization and web-based mapping with world-class urban content coursework from across the University of Pennsylvania.