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.

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

August 2010, a team of nine second-year students from DCRP travelled to Vietnam in preparation for a fall semester workshop.  The project entailed creating a plan for the People's Committee of Quy Nhon, a city on the east coast of Vietnam.

“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.”

As population increases in the United States and worldwide, development pressures also increase. Development is critical to meet legitimate human needs - housing, transportation, jobs - but it can degrade air quality, water quality and other environmental and quality-of-life assets.

The Center for Community Capital works to create such an environment by helping shape public policies that promote and catalyze innovative community development.

The Carolina Transportation Program is an interdisciplinary research and education program. CTP focuses on the study of transportation planning, transit, non-motorized transportation, and land use patterns, and their impacts on health, environment, energy and economic development at local, regional, national, and global scale.

The Center for Urban & Regional Studies conducts and supports research on urban and regional affairs—research that helps to build healthy, sustainable communities across the country and around the world. The Center's Faculty Fellows, leading scholars in their respective fields, participate in projects to generate new knowledge about urban and regional processes, problems, and solutions.

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.

Community engagement enables the planning faculty and students to address community needs. Community engagement goes beyond service because leaders of public, non-profit, and community-based organizations define the problems that need to be resolved and seek our help to resolve them.

Carolina Planning Journal, the oldest student-run planning publication in the country, is published once a year by the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

provides authoritative answers to the perennial question in urban planning: How can we create a livable, sustainable future?