The department's distinguished faculty members hold advanced degrees from the nation's most prestigious universities in city and regional planning and in a broad range of planning-related fields of study, including architecture, business, civil engineering, economics, human ecology, landscape architecture, law, public affairs, technological & environmental planning, transportation, urban studies, and water resources.

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.

The educational backgrounds of students cover a wide range of undergraduate fields. Among them are architecture, biology, business, economics, engineering, forestry, geography, geology, history, landscape architecture, philosophy, political science, psychology, public administration, sociology, and urban studies.

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.

The Carolina Transportation Program recently hosted an Alumni Career Panel to discuss the best ways to find a job after graduation.  The alumni panel relayed stories about how they entered the field, skills they recommend and even what DCRP courses they found to be most useful in their careers.

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.

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.

(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 Department of City and Regional Planning has had over 2,000 graduates since 1946.

Everyone likes pictures!  Checkout the DCRP Picasa Web Albums to see pictures of recent department events or find pictures of your classmates.  New pictures added weekly.

Opinion – William Rohe

The Triangle will vote on referendums to increase the local sales and use tax by one-half percent to support public transit.  Do we need a passenger rail system in the Triangle? Careful study suggests the answer is, unequivocally, yes.

Altitude was the first air conditioner. Come summer since time immemorial, people around the globe—those who could afford it, at least—have fled malarial cities to seek refuge in cool verdant hills.