Dr. Aujean Lee, a new faculty member in City and Metropolitan Planning, was recently featured in Humans at the U! As part of the article, Dr. Lee says: “City and Metropolitan Planning (CMP) was looking for somebody who does research related to diverse populations and community engagement. That is a key part of my research and...Continue reading→

Dr. Divya Chandrasekhar and team just announced the launch of the new global center on climate and energy. The U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid is jointly funded by NSF (in the US) and NSERC (in Canada). It is a collaboration between 12 universities across both countries, with Utah as the US lead. Within the...Continue reading→

Congratulations to Professor Keith Bartholomew and his co-authors for their award-winning article, “Transportation Academies as Catalysts for Civic Engagement in Transportation Decision-making,” as the Charley V. Wootan Award winner. TBR Charley V. Wootan Award is given each year for the best paper in transportation policy and organization. Abstract “Citizen planning academies, which became popular in...Continue reading→

Featured in Planetizen, Dr. Alessandro Rigolon’s recent research on green gentrification looks at how the addition of green space can “lead to the displacement of low-income residents and, “perhaps counterintuitively, green gentrification can also exacerbate inequities in health, finances, quality of life and — ironically — access to green spaces.””Continue reading→

Dr. Alexandra Ponette-González, a new faculty member in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning and curator of urban ecology at the Natural History Museum of Utah, was recently featured in @TheU. The article looks at a recent study about human observation of storm events conducted by Ponette-González and her co-authors, who argue that while...Continue reading→

“Three weeks after the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey, the country had already started to rebuild. “One of the things that you really want to do is have a thoughtful recovery. A deliberative recovery against all instincts to go fast,” Divya Chandrasekhar, associate professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, says. Especially...Continue reading→