Last fall, a team of nine second-year DCRP students worked with North Carolina’s Eastern Region and the Military Growth Task Force (PlanIt East effort) to help set the groundwork for a regional approach to sustainable growth and conservation planning.

President Barack Obama’s visit to Chapel Hill on Tuesday caused road closings and detours throughout the day on UNC’s campus. The president first gave a speech on campus and afterward passed DCRP’s New East building.

DCRP students get together Pecha Kucha style at the end of the semester to share their Master's Project/Dissertation research.

DCRP Planners' Forum students were recognized with an Outstanding Planning Student Organization award at the 2012 APA National Planning Conference in Los Angeles.

Open trip data lets researchers analyze bike sharing systems in detail. They are making useful discoveries about how culture and urban spaces affect the way people use bikeshare. They are making useful discoveries about how culture and urban spaces affect the way people use bikeshare.

Each year, the UNC at Chapel Hill Graduate School recognizes graduate student research that is improving the lives of people in North Carolina and beyond.  “Tina stands out among her cohort for her ability and willingness to take the lessons learned from her research and go the next logical step in authoring a tangible solution,” said Prevatte's adviser, Nichola Lowe.

Chapel Hill citizens are deciding what the town’s future should look like. “It is phenomenal that people have been so engaged,” says Mary Jane Nirdlinger, assistant director of the Town of Chapel Hill planning department. “It speaks a lot to the level of engagement in Chapel Hill. People have great ideas at these meetings.”

Tomasulo's signs help Raleigh folks walk

“It was incredibly positive to see how a few plastic signs with words on them could resonate and impact a larger discussion,” says Tomasulo, who is completing concurrent master’s degrees in urban planning and landscape architecture at N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill. “It’s all about engaging with your place.”

Development occurs in the context of conflict, and development can be the cause of conflict.  Top scholars, professionals and students all recently came together at DCRP to discuss how to mediate conflict in the practice of urban planning.

Last fall, a team of nine second-year DCRP students worked with North Carolina’s Eastern Region and the Military Growth Task Force (PlanIt East effort) to help set the groundwork for a regional approach to sustainable growth and conservation planning.