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The Department of Urban Affairs and Planning is a department within the School of Arts and Sciences at Hunter College. The department offers two graduate degrees, an accredited Master in Urban Planning degree, and a Master of Science in Urban Affairs degree. Both programs combine theory and practice in order to provide students with an in-depth understanding and appreciation of urban planning and policy. The department also offers an undergraduate urban studies major that prepares students for higher education and careers in public service.
Since its creation by advocacy planner Paul Davidoff, in 1965, the department has consistently upheld a vision of urban affairs and planning as a multi-disciplinary field. In keeping with this vision, the department’s 12 full-time faculty members represent a wide range of disciplines including architecture, economics, political science, public policy, social work, urban planning, and public health. They collectively bring a wealth of academic and professional expertise to their teaching. The program also benefits greatly from a distinguished part-time faculty who bring practical experience and knowledge in both public and non-profit sectors into the classroom.
Professor Joseph P. Viteritti is the Chair of the Department.
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“I returned from Falluja in 2006 haunted by the sense that our country had made things worse, not better, for Iraqis. Meanwhile, at home, we'd let an invasive domestic intelligence apparatus go silently to work all around us…” In , “An Iraq Vet’s Journey from Wall Street to OWS,” Hunter UAP MSUA student Derek McGee...
“While Wall Street hedge-fund managers garner obscene bonuses, one in five New York residents lives in poverty.” In his article “Making Cities Matter,” recently published in The Nation, UAP Chair, Professor Joseph P. Viteritti describes how cities today have much to learn from John Lindsey’s New York.
“GIS has a central role to play in establishing university-community partnerships…” UAP Professor Laxmi Ramasubramanian, President-Elect of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), reports..
How can the planning and research goals of educators and professionals be integrated with the needs and aspirations of the communities they serve? Find out in UAP Professor Tom Angotti’s latest book, Service Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries.
MS in Urban Affairs application deadline extended through March 15.
“Pedestrian-cyclist accidents are far more common occurrences than previously thought and that government and public health officials need to pay more attention to this phenomenon…” - UAP Professor W. Milcazarski and collaborator Sociology Professor P. Tuckel
UAP to Honor APA President and Hunter Urban Alumnus Mitch Silver: On Friday, September 16, 2011, Hunter Urban Affairs and Planning will celebrate
"Some people wind up in better schools than others, and it continues to break down by race and class.."
UAP Chair, Professor Joseph P. Viteritti
UAP Graduate Students Release Study “Second Ave Subway: Lessons Learned”:
This 122-page report looks at the project, in a significant amount of detail, with a particular focus on the impact that the construction has had, and will have in the future, on the Second Avenue corridor in Manhattan.
UAP Professor Awarded Fulbright Scholar Grant: Professor Jill Simone Gross, Director of MS in Urban Affairs, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research in the European Union
