Focus Areas
Application Deadline:
January 15 annually
Enrollment Deposit and Intent to Enroll Deadline:
April 15 annually
The Master of Urban Regional Planning program’s flexible curriculum provides students the opportunity to explore a wide range of topics in the field of urban and regional planning or gain depth in a specific area. The focus areas described below provide guidance about elective courses a student could take to more fully explore that topic. Focus areas are structured to be potential courses of study, and are not a requirement for the Master of Urban Regional Planning degree.
Courses listed as “Primary Courses” provide a majority of the material directed toward the focus area, “Secondary Courses” provide a smaller share of course material on the focus area; and “Non-URP courses” are offered in other units on campus.
/ Applied Planning Skills
Coordinator: Robert Goodspeed
/ Community and Economic Development
Coordinator: Scott Campbell
/ Global and Comparative Planning
Coordinator: Lesli Hoey
/ Housing and Equitable Development
Coordinator: Lan Deng
/ Land Use and Environmental Planning
Coordinator: Dick Norton
/ Physical Planning and Design
Coordinator: Larissa Larsen
/ Social Justice and Urban Development
Coordinator: Joe Grengs
/ Sustainability, Resilience, Adaptation, and Climate Change
Coordinator: Larissa Larsen
/ Transportation Planning
Coordinator: Jonathan Levine