Preparing scholars for Fulbright Awards
11/17/25
Faculty Affairs is hosting a networking event to help inform and prepare faculty to successfully apply to this prestigious — and for many transformative — program.

UB Professor Honors Planning Pioneer and Mentor with “The Shoup Doctrine”
10/30/25
When Professor Daniel Hess graduated from the University at Buffalo in 1997 with his master’s in urban planning, his next stop was UCLA to pursue his Ph.D. There, he met Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning who came to be known for his pioneering work in parking policy and reform.
Four faculty receive Fulbright awards
6/30/23
Edith Gonzalez, Daniel Hess, Katarzyna “Kasia” Kordas and Amy VanScoy have received the prestigious awards to study and teach abroad during the coming year.
Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah assumes role as interim chair of Department of Urban and Regional Planning
6/29/22
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning has announced the appointment of Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah as interim chair. Boamah, an associate professor of urban planning and director of graduate studies for the program, assumes the leadership role after Daniel B. Hess announced he will step down as chair to return to the faculty.
MUP program reaccredited "with distinction"
7/12/21
Continuing a trajectory of rising prominence, UB’s professional Master of Urban Planning program has been reaccredited for the longest term possible by the discipline’s national accrediting board.
Parking reform could re-energize downtowns
6/15/21
For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third of land area in U.S. cities; nationwide, there are an estimated eight parking spaces for every car..
Reflection: Department of Urban and Regional Planning
5/14/21
In planning, design, development, and preservation, our approach to education is place-based and people-based. This is a reflection of the ways in which we engage communities and offer pathways for improvement to help address pressing challenges.
UB’s Daniel B. Hess contributes to viewpoint series on urban planning's response to the pandemic
11/30/20
Daniel B. Hess, UB professor and chair of urban planning, is co-editor of a viewpoint series on the planning discipline’s response to a changed world, published this month by Town Planning Review (Liverpool University Press).
Cold War-style preparedness could help fight future pandemics
4/27/20
A key group of allies is missing in the U.S. effort to face the coronavirus pandemic: the American people.
Daniel Hess explores the legacy of central planning in Baltic States
11/5/19
State-sponsored housing projects dating back to the socialist era are a ubiquitous presence across Eastern Europe, particularly in the Baltic Countries. Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries , the latest book edited by Daniel B. Hess, UB professor and chairperson of urban planning, focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of such projects in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Daniel Hess informs debate on nagging issue for cities: parking
12/17/18
UB urban planning professor and chair Daniel B. Hess is among a growing core of scholars at work on new research on a growing national issue: parking.
Tapping social media for unbiased community input on planning issues
3/28/18
A team of planners from the University at Buffalo and University of Tartu in Estonia are tuning into chatter on social media to gather valuable unbiased data on resident perceptions of urban neighborhoods across Estonia.
Daniel Hess takes helm as chair of UB’s urban and regional planning program
1/5/18
Daniel B. Hess, professor of urban planning who studies the socio-economic dynamics of housing, transportation and land use, has been appointed chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UB, effective January 1, 2018.
What do hospitals do in a hurricane? Use their own emergency plans
9/14/17
With Hurricane Irma leading to massive closures - including hospitals - urban planning professor Daniel B. Hess, an expert on emergency planning infrastructure, explores the intensive work that goes into hospital planning for catastrophic events.
A City Planning Exercise in Tartu City Center
6/3/16
Imagine redesigning a city in only 2 days. That’s exactly what American and Estonian students did recently as part of a summer study abroad program in Estonia under the direction of urban and regional planning faculty member Daniel B. Hess.
Rethinking Neighborhood Design to Promote Walking and Biking
2/11/14
Urban planning faculty members Daniel Hess and Hiroaki Hata, along with professor and department chair Ernest Sternberg, recently published their collaborative exploration of issues of urban and suburban vitality through the lens of pedestrian pathways in neighborhoods.
A Small Country with Big Ideas: Urban Planning in Estonia
1/21/14
Daniel B. Hess, associate professor of urban and regional planning and director of the Estonia study abroad program, offers an account of the three-week summer course that immerses students in Estonian culture as they study the evolution of the built environment and contemporary urban planning in Europe.
Daniel Hess Among 16 Receiving Chancellor’s Award
5/17/12
Daniel Hess, associate professor of urban and regional planning, is among the seven faculty members, three librarians and six staff members to receive 2012 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.

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