According to the latest edition of the Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs, DUSP/MIT is the top planning program in North America. Since 2007, Planetizen's Guide has included rankings, and DUSP has consistently been listed as #1. This year, the University of California--Berkeley and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign round out the top three.
Calestous Juma, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT, received a LAAP Prize (Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize) for his leadership in socio-economic development in Africa. The award will be presented to Juma in Nigeria on October 10, 2014, by the Millennium Excellence Foundation.
Play the LA River is the launch project of Project 51, a collective of artists, designers, urban planners, writers, and educators (including DUSP MCP ’10 and current PhD student, John Arroyo, who is one of six co-founders).
Interested in learning more about the Science Impact Collaborative? Please take a look at the newly released PDF detailing the current projects and research interests of the Science Impact Collaborative.