The Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) announced that the sixth edition of Planning Canadian Communities won the 2014 Award for Planning Excellence for a Planning Publication. The book was written by School of Urban and Regional Planning faculty Gerald Hodge and David Gordon and published by Nelson Canada.
Per Lundberg MPL'14 and Sarah Nielsen MPL'14 have won national awards from the Canadian Institute of Planners.
As they prepared to depart on their trip to India in December, Michael Rac (MPL ’14) and his classmates felt certain they were ready. The group of eight was headed for Auroville, an intentionally planned community, as part of a course, to put into practice everything they had learned so far as part of their studies
Dr. Leela Viswanathan teaches SURP 871 Social Planning
Professor Leela Viswanathan brings her social justice and advocacy experience into the classes she teaches in the School of Urban and Regional Planning.
When Kevin House was offered the opportunity to spend six months studying in Australia as part of his Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning, he didn’t miss a beat. “I saw it as an amazing opportunity,” he recalls. “I think I knew that it was the last time that I would get a solid opportunity to go away for six months again. I thought, if I’m going to do this, I’d better do it now.”
