The Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP) has been a place where students, faculty, and the community work to turn vision into practice. UEP centers its mission around the intersection of planning, policy and social justice.
Learn about the research areas in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning that include such topics as data and spatial analytics, food, housing and community development, sustainability, transportation and water.
Save the Date! We invite you to a celebration of 50 Years of UEP on April 6, 2024. We look forward to seeing alumni, faculty, students and friends attend this special event!
Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, and Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate was recently awarded an honorary doctorate by KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
The purpose of the research is to highlight the use of digital mapping and GIS in combination with 3D geo-visualization for depicting landscapes and cultural heritage sites.
UEP second-year student Elijah Mensah shares his insights from the ACSP Conference 2023 in Chicago, IL, where over 1200 attendees, including about 700 faculty, more than 400 students, professionals from over 30 countries gathered.