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A recent urban planning studio at UB has generated critical insights on alternative approaches to historic preservation for marginalized communities, receiving the attention of the professional planning community and directly informing an adaptive reuse project under way on Buffalo’s East Side.

Thanks to the efforts of three UB urban planning students determined to apply their skills in the surrounding community, an immigrant-owned business on Buffalo’s East Side is getting a complete storefront makeover.

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.

Jeremy Sanford is a graduate student studying Environmental and Land Use Planning. At the School of Architecture and Planning's Community Resilience Lab, he provides support for health and energy research with People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) - Buffalo and conducts environmental justice research. He strongly believes that planners have a central role in enhancing racial justice and promoting healthier and sustainable environments. 

Graduate urban planning students exploring how to plan for complex, highly variable challenges got a timely, real-world lesson this spring with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most disruptive crises to hit the globe in decades.

Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor of urban and regional planning, is available to speak with media about the impassioned protests occurring across America against racism and social injustice following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

UB student Nicole Little has put her design skills to work for Buffalo’s Fruit Belt community, helping residents to visualize alternate futures for their built environment through the creation of their own graphic novel.

Kennedy Alexis is a first-year Master of Urban Planning student at the School of Architecture and Planning who is also pursuing a Master of Arts in Economics in UB's School of Management. As an aspiring international development consultant, she is interested in creating "conscious infrastructure" that will support the economic, human and social sustainability of undeserved communities, particularly in the Global South.

A graduate preservation planning studio has completed an adaptive reuse proposal for a 19th century barn located on the historic Richardson Olmsted Complex in Buffalo.

Along with eleven other masters of urban planning students, I was part of an urban planning studio aimed at developing a vision for a new rail trail.

An urban planning studio that explored the historic value of building typologies along Niagara Falls Boulevard that date back to its origins as a mid-century tourist strip has been recognized by the New York Upstate chapter of the American Planning Association. 

A UB masters of urban planning studio recently toured sites along what could be one of Buffalo’s next multi-use paths.