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Economic Development and Technological Change

Our faculty are leaders in investigating entrepreneurship, development and redevelopment, technological change, and the reuse of industrial space to meet new social and economic needs.  

Regional and Greenway Planning

Regional scale landscape planning promotes the thoughtful achievement of human and natural needs while linking edge, node and corridor across multiple scales.

Design Exploration

Design Exploration integrates design and scholarship through award winning exhibitions, design/build projects, built landscapes, and plans.

Regenerative Urbanism

Research in Regenerative Urbanism addresses climate change, resilience, sustainable and low impact policy and design practices in small towns, cities, and global metropolitan regions.

Culture, Heritage and Society

Our faculty investigate policy, planning, and design issues in the identification, interpretation, and conservation of the living heritage of cultural landscapes.

Community Engagement

Community Engagement research explores distribution of costs, benefits, power and privilege among multiple and diverse publics in policy, planning and design.

Events

  • Monday, May 27th

    1. Holiday

  • Thursday, July 4th

    1. Holiday

News

  • Vote for UMass IGERT Poster

    May 21st - May 23rd, 2013

    Please take some time to view and vote for the entry from UMass for IGERT - Regional Planning Ph.D candidates are participating with this grant.

    The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has a Video & Poster Competition.  Our UMass Amherst interdisciplinary team consists of PhD candidates from Regional Planning, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Environmental Conservation programs.  Please consider watching & voting for our submission at :

    http://posterhall.org/igert2013/posters/389

  • Our Studio Instructor, Professor and Current student receive 2013 Awards by Boston Association of Landscape Architectures

    Our current studio instructor Stephen Stimson and his firm received three awards for their projects, "Northeast Harbor" (Honor Award), "Mary Soo Hoo Park" (Merit Award), and "UCONN Academic Buildings" (Merit Award).

    Associate Professor Annaliese Bischoff was awarded a Merit Award for her work "The Children's Guide to Turners Falls".

    Current MLA student Jing Huang was awarded a Merit Student Award for her work  "Cultivating a Synergistic Growing Site".

  • 2013 Graduation Events

    Departmental Celebrations at Durfee Garden:

    • Graduate: 12:00 - 3:00 p.m, Friday, May 10th (Tickets are $12, contact Stacy Wasserman)
    • Undergraduate: 3:00 - 7:00 p.m, Saturday, May 11th

    University Commencement Information: 

  • Post Oil City Exhibition

    September 1 – October 31, 2013
    Department is presenting the exhibition “Post-Oil City: The History of the City's Future” at Gateway City Arts, Holyoke, MA

  • Summer On-line Classes

    Registration begins March 18, 2013.

    Department is offering a range of summer on-line courses. Register at UMassULearn.net.
    Intro to GIS Systems/ Planning (Henry Renski, May 20th - June 28th)
    Planning for Climate Change Mitigation (Jeff Howard, May 20th - June 28th)
    Planning for Climate Change Adaptation (Ana Mesquita Emlinger, July 8th - August 16th).
    These are 3-Credit, 6-Week intensive courses, and do not require UMass admission.