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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Lecture Michael C. Lens: Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods City & Regional Planning February 4, 2025 12:00 pm

Lecture Defying Displacement: Book Talk and Conversation with Andrew Lee In Conversation with Akira Drake Rodriguez City & Regional Planning March 18, 2025 12:00 pm

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Story Spring 2025 Lecture Series Opens January 22 January 9, 2025

In the Media New PBS series 'Great Migrations' examines influx of Black people to Northern cities like Philadelphia January 8, 2025 Philly Voice

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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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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.