Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning

Mark your calendars to join us on Nov. 8 @ 6pm ET for a World Town Planning Day lecture featuring Petra Doan, Professor at Florida State University, on "Planning with LGBTQ Communities: Lessons from Atlanta, Tampa, and Houston."

World Town Planning Day 2021 | School of City & Regional Planning World Town Planning Day 2021"Planning with LGBTQ Communities: Lessons from Atlanta, Tampa, and Houston"featuring Petra Doan, Professor at Florida State University hosted by the Georgia Tech Student Planning Association and the School of City & Regional Planning Monday, November 8 from 6-7 p.m. ET Jo...

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Two of the 17 National Science Foundation (NSF) Civic Innovation Challenge Awards (narrowed down from 52), include SCaRP faculty! Their interdisciplinary work provides community-based solutions to mobility issues and disaster resilience.

Subhro Guhathakurta and Kari Watkins are on the Piloting On-Demand Multimodal Transit in Atlanta project. This project aims to synchronize on-demand shuttle services with MARTA services and real-time feeds, and deploy these services in targeted transit deserts. Nisha Botchwey is on the Visualizing Resilience: BIPOC Youth Advocacy Through Mapmaking project. This project will deliver a curriculum to support youth advocacy for infrastructure projects in their communities.

https://isye.gatech.edu/news/demand-multimodal-transit-solution-bring-equitable-affordable-transportation-atlantas

https://iac.gatech.edu/news/item/650963/interdisciplinary-team-awarded-million-grant-youth-advocacy-disaster

Interdisciplinary Team Awarded $1 Million NSF Grant for Youth Advocacy and Disaster Resilience They will use the funds to develop “a creative toolset for education and advocacy,” which they will use to help residents in environmentally vulnerable communities reimagine disaster resilience and advocate for these interventions in their neighborhoods.

Join our very own Professor of Practice Mike Dobbins tonight for an author talk at the Atlanta History Center on his recent book, "Atlanta's Olympic Resurgence." The author talk is tonight, Wednesday, July 21 @ 7pm ET via Zoom. Register at the link below!

Randal Roark & Michael Dobbins | Atlanta History Center The summer of 1996. In nineteen days, six million visitors jostled about in a southern city grappling with white flight, urban decay and the stifling legacy of Jim Crow. Six years earlier, a bold, audacious partnership of a strong mayor, enlightened business leaders and Atlanta’s Black political l...

Baabak Ashuri and Catherine Ross are two of our resident Georgia Tech College of Design infrastructure experts. Their expertise in transportation and infrastructure has come up a number of times in the last few weeks as Congress has debated the infrastructure package. When we saw the bipartisan agreement on the infrastructure package that was announced on Thursday, June 24, we called Ashuri and Ross to get their take. https://design.gatech.edu/feature/bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-qa-ashuri-and-ross

Help us spread the word! Black Lady Planners and the Student Planning Association are hosting an essay competition for Black youth in Atlanta. Submissions are due on June 18! http://bit.ly/BLPessay

It isn't every day that we get to announce two major pieces of news... we are so excited to welcome Gulsah Akar as chair of the School of City and Regional Planning, effective July 1, 2021 (https://b.gatech.edu/3wwjqjH). We are thrilled to also announce the launch of the new interdisciplinary M.S. in Urban Analytics, beginning this fall (https://b.gatech.edu/3wwD5Ac)!

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As members of a global community, we are horrified by the recent attacks on the members of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across the country. While these attacks have been escalating over the past year, the senseless murders of eight individuals in Atlanta, including six Asian women, have been especially difficult for us who call Atlanta home. We mourn with the families of the victims. We express solidarity with all who have spoken out against racial and ethnic hate while pushing back on the insidious expressions of white supremacy.

Last summer, we took a stand against racial injustices perpetrated on the BIPOC communities and adopted our plan to advance "our commitment to justice and inclusive communities." We committed ourselves to do more to create an environment that nurtures, respects, and celebrates diverse voices and experiences.

Our work isn’t over yet. We must continue our efforts to expand equity, justice, and security to all communities. We must work to stop racial/ethnic hate, bigotry, and discrimination in our society and beyond.