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Media Mentions

Our faculty are frequently called upon to inform critical issues facing the world today. See the latest faculty and school mentions in the press.

  • Design Forecast: Tomorrow's Vibrant Communities
    2/4/16
    A blog post on cities as vibrant communities highlights the school and Dean Shibley as "a good example of planners making a case for the benefits of integrated development. From the creation of an integrated medical corridor to a renewed focus on the waterfront, the school's hands-on involvement using the city as its laboratory has injected design thinking into Buffalo’s broader economic development plan, and the city is now seeing a ripple effect of positive results."
  • Students Take Career 'Road Trip' to New York City
    2/4/16

    A group of 19 students from the School of Architecture and Planning visited four high-profile firms in the Big Apple earlier this month as part of UB's "Road Trip New York City" career networking and development program.

  • Interior design junkie Adolf Hitler invented the modern politician’s at-home interview
    2/3/16
  • Get Lectured: University at Buffalo, Spring '16
    2/2/16
    An article on Archinect reports on the School of Architecture and Planning’s school lecture series for winter/spring 2016.
  • The Atlantic City's Lab | A Weather Station With Wheels
    2/1/16
    An article in The Atlantic’s City Lab reports on research by Nicolas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, on climate resilience and what cities should be doing to combat urban heat islands using a bicycle equipped with a research-grade weather station to gather data on surface and air temperature, solar radiation, sky view and more.
  • Flint, Ferguson, Baltimore: Henry Louis Taylor Considers their Connections in Washington Post
    1/28/16

    "These are the places that are left behind, forgotten," says Henry Louis Taylor, UB professor of urban planning and director of the Center for Urban Studies.

  • How Flint, Ferguson and Baltimore are all connected
    1/25/16
    An article in The Washington Post about the national news stories about Flint, Ferguson, New Orleans and Baltimore – and the separate reason that each became calamities – interviews Henry Louis Taylor, professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and Planning. “On one level, they all look and appear to be very, very different,” he said. “[But] these are places that are left behind, forgotten. They’re places we’ve gotten very good at shielding from view.”
  • Stebbins’s “Vibrant” Article Featured by National Real Estate Magazine
    1/22/16

    With 35 years of experience in urban planning and development, School of Architecture and Planning adjunct professor David Stebbins has learned a few things about how to create a vibrant urban center. His recent co-authored article, entitled “Making Downtowns What They Used to Be,” was featured in Urban Land Magazine.

  • Grand Rapids YMCA First Building to Adopt Universal Design Standards
    1/22/16

    UB’s Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA Center), in collaboration with the Global Universal Design Commission, has developed the first set of universal design certification standards for commercial buildings, looking to the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) guidelines as a model.

  • U.S. varsity team visits Maradu
    1/21/16
    An article in The Hindu reports a 17-member team from UB, composed of architects, urban planners, engineers and public health practitioners, visited the Marandu municipality as part of a city sanitation plan being developed for the Indian city.
  • The Tech to Expect in Architecture in 2016
    1/14/16
    An article in Architect magazine asks 12 design and tech experts to predict the advancements that they think will happen in 2016, and interviews Joyce Hwang, associate professor of architecture. “At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, I was transfixed by ‘Rock Print,’ a proof-of-concept structural form built with robotic technologies and low-grade aggregates,” she said.
  • Buffalo’s ailing inner-city
    1/14/16
    An article on Investigative Post about a forum on Buffalo and the social problems that have produced conflict in Ferguson, Baltimore and other urban centers quotes Henry Louis Taylor Jr., director of UB’s Center for Urban Studies, who called for the creation of a development fund for Buffalo’s East Side whose participants would include government, business, nonprofits and local colleges and universities.