The school sees its largest undergraduate and MAS-GIS enrollments ever. Distinguished Professor Michael Batty visits teaches a short course. Gage Davis establishes a new scholarship for urban planning students. Read about these developments and more here.

In the last several months, ASU has approved the school to offer 3 new options for planning degrees. At the same time, its existing Master of Urban and Environmental Planning (MUEP) program was granted a highly positive accreditation from the Planning Accreditation Board.

Read more here.

This year we welcome two new assistant professors to the school's Planning Program, Elizabeth Mack and Dierdre Pfeiffer.

Learn more about the new faculty members' backgrounds, interests and plans here.

The world’s population increasingly lives in cities, and developing nations in particular are expected to experience rapid urban growth. How can analysis of remotely-sensed imagery help us monitor these transformations? What can modeling contribute?

Read more about these workshops, co-organized by Associate Professors Elizabeth Wentz and Soe Myint, here.