1. Urban & Regional Planning

2. Lan Deng, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Research and Teaching Interests: Housing Policy and Economics, Fiscal Planning and Management, Real Estate and Urban Development Geographic Information System Sign-up sheet

3. Are you interested in positive social, economic, environmental, and physical change? Do you want to work with people from various backgrounds to develop a better community? Do you like to communicate with others about ideas, programs, and plans? Are you challenged by complex problems – and excited about being part of a cooperative process to devise solutions to those problems? Do you think about the future – about what could be – rather than about what is?

4. 1. Our goal is to educate the future leaders of the profession. 2. We have a faculty that embodies interdisciplinarity. 3. We emphasize learning planning by doing planning. 4. We define urban and regional planning as a professional and scholarly field. 5. Our focus is on "place"—whether neighborhoods, cities, rural areas, or regions.

5. 1. At the master's level, we offer a core curriculum that covers material we believe all planners should know 2. We offer an interdisciplinary doctorate 3. We offer several concentrations 4. We offer real estate certificate and spatial analysis certificate as well as other certificates. 5. We offer dual-degrees

6. Land Use + Environmental Planning Housing, Community, and Economic Development Planning in Developing Countries Physical Planning and Urban Design Transportation Planning

7. We are part of a college that also offers architecture and urban design. We are part of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor is a cosmopolitan community, high quality of life. We are close to Detroit.

8. Transformative Development : The Michigan program is the ONLY US real estate program that exclusively focuses on walkable urban real estate development A joint venture of Architecture & Planning, Ross School of Business, and the Law School. A stand-alone certificate program Hands on Experience —The program is led by a practitioner, hence has a hands-on focus

10. California Coastal Commission Chicago Department of Transportation City of Ann Arbor City of New York City of Orlando City of Portland City of South Bend Congresswoman Gwen Moore, US House of Representatives Government of the District of Columbia King County, Seattle Michiana Area Council Of Governments [MACOG] Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago NYC Dept of City Planning Southeast Council of Governments [SEMCOG] Southern California Association of Governments [SCAG] US Department of Defense, Office of Economic Adjustment Village of Mundelein, Illinois Wayne County Michigan – Community Mental Health Agency

11. AKRF Applied Ecological Services Cooper Roberts Simonsen Associates Engelhardt, Hammer & Associates General Motors Gruen Associates ICF Jones & Stokes Morris-Depew Associates, Inc Parsons Brinckerhoff ProVisions, LLC S. B. Friedman & Company Saccardi & Schiff, Inc. TRC U.P. Engineers & Architects UrbanTrans Consultants, Inc. Westphal Associates LLC WRG Design

12. Michigan Suburbs Alliance Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition Mott MacDonald- Representative Office in Moscow National Community Reinvestment Coalition Michigan Sea Grant University of Michigan – Dearborn

16. American Planning Association [APA] www.planning.org Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning [ACSP] www.acsp.org Michigan Association of Planning [MAP] www.planningmi.org

17. Program Website: taubmancollege.umich.edu/urp Program Brochure and DVD