Build Sustainable Communities

Landscape architects and planners are needed to help solve today’s biggest challenges, from housing inequality to climate change. UMass Amherst offers professionally accredited degree programs in landscape architecture and regional planning. We also offer a highly flexible Sustainable Community Development undergraduate program and a skills-based Associate of Science in Landscape Contracting.

Giving You the Tools to Make a Difference

Do you want to create positive change for people and the planet? Watch this video to discover how UMass LARP will help you get started on your path.

Summer Enrollment is Open!

Enrollment is open for summer online classes offered through the Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning at UMass Amherst.  Classes will run as six-week sessions. Session 1 (CS1): May 19–July 1. Session 2 (CS2): July 7–August 15

Eva Bergloff, BSSCD, Helps Launch the New2U Store

Meet Eva Bergloff, a Sustainable Community Development student and store manager of New2U, UMass’s first year-round, student-run campus thrift store!

Re-envisioning Broad Street Plaza in Springfield, MA; 2024 Graduate Urban Design Studio Final Report

Studio Presentations

Join the UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning as landscape architecture and landscape contracting students present their midterm projects. Presentations will be open to the public and held in the Design Building Atrium and Lecture Hall (DB 170) from March 12-14. 2025.

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