Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College

05/07/2023

The Spring 2023 Issue of the Urban Review is now live! This issue addresses a range of pressing issues, including housing, municipal services, economic development, and urban identity. Our writers were challenged to explore these diverse topics while finding reason to hope for a brighter future in New York.

Congratulations to the contributors, editors, photographers, graphic artists, and editorial board who made this issue possible.

Read the issue here:

Current Issue Letter from the Editors Sidney Lok & Trevor Lovitz The Street Wart Matt Choi Creating City Hopeful in The World We Make Katie Zhang The value of 311 data Zhi Keng He What Stinks in Here!? Addressing Inequity in Sanitation Services in NYC Alek Miletic Thinking Beyond Waste Management: H...

30/06/2023

The Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization (CSU) has awarded Hunter MUP student Amhara Hernandez a scholarship for participation in the International Union of Architects (UIA) World Congress in Copenhagen on July 2-6, 2023. Congratulations Amhara!

26/04/2023

Congratulations to Associate Professor Laura Wolf-Powers whose book University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District received the Philadelphia Athenaeum Art and Architecture 2022 Book Award, announced on April 17, 2023.

https://philaathenaeum.org/news/ #:~:text=John%20Lobell%2C%20author%20of%20The,2022%20Art%20%26%20Architecture%20Book%20Award.

This is the Athenaeum of Philadelphia News page.

31/01/2023

Prof. Jill Simone Gross has been invited to join the editorial board of the peer review journal, Urban Affairs Review. UAR is a leading scholarly journal focused on urban politics, policy, and governance. Read more about the journal:

Journal description for Urban Affairs Review

07/06/2022

ICYMI: MS UPL alum Colleen O'Connor-Grant published an article in Shelterforce in May on the role of planners in climate gentrification

Holmdel, NJ, moved its affordable housing to flood-prone land. Do planners have an ethical obligations to speak up against moves like this?

04/06/2022

UPP Professor Nick Bloom presented at a conference on the NYC housing crisis hosted by Center for Architecture K-12 last month, along with MUP grads Moses Gates (VP, Regional Plan Association) and Ahmed Tigani (Deputy Commissioner, HPD). Check out the video here:

Lost in the shadow of competing issues of economics, climate, racial equity, and the pandemic affecting New York City is a new chapter in the housing crisis, evidenced by multiple symptoms including sky-rocketing home prices, declining housing starts, record-setting homelessness, looming evictions,....

03/06/2022

Graduating urban studies major Jackson Todd published an article in Village Voice on Los Deliveristas Unidos last week. Organizing among food delivery workers was also the subject of Jackson's capstone project. Read the article here:

That cyclist heading over with your lattes and muffins might also be organizing a labor movement

31/05/2022

UPP Chair Joseph Viteritti weighed in on the District 10 Congressional candidates:

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rep. Mondaire Jones and Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou are the most prominent candidates, so far.

09/05/2022

UPP Adjunct Associate Professor Stefan Al will be giving a talk at the Skyscraper Museum next Tuesday, May 17 at 6pm. Register below!

Focusing on four global cities – London, New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore – architect, urban designer, and TED Resident STEFAN AL examines rise of global supertalls and the factors that have led to this worldwide boom. He uncovers the latest innovations in sustainable building, from skyscraper...

04/05/2022

UPP Professor Nicholas Bloom presented a Keynote Address at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies at the end of last month. Check out the conference below:

Nicholas Dagen Bloom is Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College. His research analyzes long-term planning outcomes in essential urban systems such as subsidized housing and mass transportation. He is the author of Suburban Alchemy (OSU, 2001), Merchant of Illusion (OSU, 2004), Publi...

29/04/2022

"Reform needs to go beyond changing the way we pay for care. [...] Communities, not corporations, should own our nation’s vital health care assets."

Read more from UPP Hunter Profs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein in The Nation:

Communities, not corporations, should own our most vital health care assets.

28/04/2022

Last fall's studio with Prof. Lily Baum Pollans looked at ways to promote green industry for LIC around Dutch Kills, including through these "propaganda" posters to promote a vision for a regenerative Newtown Creek. Check out the rest of the report here:

http://www.hunterurban.org/studio/dutch-kills-loop