SJSU Urban & Regional Planning

09/09/2024

This FREE lunchtime book talk looks amazing - for anyone who's wondered about how our streets get paved/striped/designed - this is a good one!

In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind the way that our streets are engineered, which leaves safety as an afterthought. While traffic engineers are not trying to cause deliberate harm to anyone, he explains,....

05/06/2024

Spend an hour SAFELY biking on El Camino Real, with guides and spotters to keep you safe.

4th annual El Camino Real ride from Santa Clara Caltrain Station to California Ave Caltrain Station, with free refreshments along the way.

05/03/2024

Likey Bikey!

San José has a plan to become “one of the most bike-friendly communities in North America.” The City’s latest plan envisions a 557-mile network of all-ages-and-abilities bikeways with the goal of supporting 20% of all trips to be made by bike by 2050.

How do policymakers and planners ensure bike networks—this one in San José and in others in cities across the nation—are equitable as well as efficient and sustainable?

Expanding bike networks and allocating funds necessitate meticulous planning to ensure a fair distribution of bike infrastructure, but many current assessment methods do not account for differences in bike path classes that provide different safety and comfort levels for cyclists.

Join the conversation with experts to discuss a new equity assessment of San José’s bike infrastructure. This assessment is driven by a weighting system for different safety and comfort levels of the urban bike network, and using it could have a major impact on bike infrastructure, traffic congestion, sustainability, and Bay Area communities https://transweb.sjsu.edu/events/Pedaling-Progress-SJ-BikeEquity-Tool

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12/19/2023

Congratulations! to all our graduates. We are so proud of all your accomplishments and look forward to your future successes. Make change wherever you go!

11/30/2023

Department students, alumni, faculty and staff, please RSVP for the upcoming URBP Holiday Party next Friday, December 8! Spaces are extremely limited.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/urbps-annual-holiday-party-tickets-768461157007

11/27/2023

As announced via email - we are pleased to announced two new elective courses opening in the Spring 2024 semester! Students interested in enrolling in one of these courses, please reach out to your advisor.

URBP 280 (Section 80) - Planning for Social Equity
With Professor Laxmi Ramasubramanian, PhD, AICP

URBP 282 (Section 82) - Missing Middle Housing Workshop
With Anu Natarajan and Professor Laxmi Ramasubramanian, PhD, AICP

10/19/2023

📅 Join us Wednesday, October 25, from 6-9 pm for our very first combined program social hour! 🙌

This is a fantastic opportunity to meet and network with students and faculty from our three major masters' programs: Urban Planning, Geography, and Public Administration! We will meet at The FAB, just outside campus on Paseo de San Antonio. Hope to see many of you there!

10/10/2023

SJSU MUP students are working on an exciting and important project with VTA! Please consider participating!

VTA's first-of-its-kind project, the Equitable VMT Mitigation Program, aims to reduce driving from . 🚗 🔽 🏢 Learn more about the project and how it may provide solutions for the at the virtual .

📅 October 16 @ 6-7:30 p.m.
🔗 https://bit.ly/46IpzLP

Also, you can meet the project team at upcoming this fall. They are excited to hear your input!

10/02/2023

Did you know? Our SJSU_UrbanPlanConnect Google Group is open to all! 💡

This is a great place to see announcements about internships, jobs, and educational and networking events of interest to Bay Area planners. New posts are added all time time. Click this link or scan the QR code below to sign up: https://groups.google.com/a/sjsu.edu/g/sjsu_urbanplanconnect-group

09/22/2023

🗓 SAVE THE DATE - SEPTEMBER 28, 2023 🗓

The San Jose State University Study Abroad Fair is THE opportunity for students interested in broadening their horizons. It all starts NEXT THURSDAY, when global ambassadors, alumni, faculty leaders and more will be at SJSU Student Union to present upcoming opportunities.

Learn more at https://goabroad.sjsu.edu/

09/21/2023

In person activities commence.
If you are an alum and in the area, do join us!

09/21/2023

for SJSU Urban & Regional Planning students