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 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. These conclusions can help cities refine their bikeshare systems as they grow and mature.

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.”

Design Revival 24 is rooted in the conviction that helping communities in need is a core calling of design professionals everywhere.  2010 DCRP Alumna, Kate Pearce describes her experience as a team of  planners, landscape architects, architects and engineers volunteered 24 consecutive hours of design work to the town of Bluefield, WV.

Dr. Lowe has been exploring institutional differences across local labor markets that not only shape how Latino immigrants apply and develop skill, but influence the kinds of barriers they face in harnessing their expertise for occupational advancement.

US cities have long catered to a population that prefers to drive. How do you remake a city into a pedestrian dream?

The BBC's Franz Strasser went to Raleigh, North Carolina where he met with DCRP student Matt Tomasulo to discuss his Walk Raleigh project.

We are pleased to report the official launch of the new Carolina Planning website!  This new web presence both extends the reach and impact of the Journal and provides unprecedented access to our archives, with over 500 original articles, commentaries, interviews, and book reviews from some of the most formative years of the planning field.

DCRP's David Godschalk discusses features of 10 outstanding comprehensive plans from around the country in terms of how well they meet sustaining places principles.

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.

(Opinion – Roberto Quercia)
Occupy Your Home advocates across the country have good reason to demonstrate their frustration over mounting foreclosures and market excesses. They have called for a National Day of Action to protest.

"The programs that are out there produce great housing,” said Chris Estes (MRP '02) with the North Carolina Housing Coalition. “We have a great delivery system of for profit and non-profit developers who build it, just not enough funding to keep up with the need."

It's time for a field trip! The best way to understand a community, and the challenges it faces, is to get out and see it.

As the nation works to restore a vibrant housing market, a new book by researchers at UNC at Chapel Hill tells what really caused the foreclosure crisis and how to rebuild a safe and sustainable U.S. housing finance system.

“The rate of urban growth in China is extraordinary,” says William Rohe, director of the UNC Center for Urban and Regional Studies. “In a decade or two, small Chinese towns are literally developing into metropolises.”

Over the past three decades, the economy of North Carolina's Research Triangle—defined by the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill—has been transformed from one dependent on agriculture and textiles to one driven by knowledge-based jobs in technology, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals.