Media Mentions

An article on Fast Company’s Co.Design about Ford Motor Co.’s plan to remake Detroit – and itself – interviews Robert Silverman, professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, who said there has always been a concern that a flood of money will lead to swift gentrification. “The area has been teetering between revitalizing and falling by the wayside for years,” he says. “There are definitely places that will develop slower around the old station, so there’s probably still space for things like affordable housing and business development that smaller mom-and-pop and local businesses can be involved in.”

A story on KCET-TV in Los Angeles about designing cities that allow birds and other wildlife to safely coexist with humans interviews Joyce Hwang, associate professor of architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, about her work, which includes a bat tower that provides a livable habitat in an aesthetically striking form that creates public awareness, and her Generative Zoning project that looks to the unused and abandoned urban spots created by zoning regulations. Perhaps, she said, the fact that the U.S. is already considering bird-safe buildings to minimize the No. 1 cause of death for urban birds, flying into windows, means that we are moving forward. 

An article on Cleveland Scene about things to do in Buffalo this summer includes Assembly House 150, a project by Dennis Maher, clinical assistant professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, that is home to his students’ projects as well as the Society for the Advancement of Construction-Related Arts (SACRA), a training program that allows prospective builders to create new projects incrementally. "We're looking at unique opportunities and needs, and trying to draw relationships between those things," he said. A story on WKBW-TV also looks at his SACRA work and interviews Maher and his students.

WKBW-TV reports on a 2017 labor market assessment commissioned by Invest Buffalo Niagara and prepared by the UB Regional Institute, which identified seven industries projected to have the largest number of job openings in the next few years.

An article on Buffalo Rising reports the Quad House, a small, efficient and futuristic house in Buffalo’s Black Rock neighborhood that was designed and constructed by four UB School of Architecture and Planning students, is available for rent.

A story on WBFO-FM about its Racial Equality Project Wednesday night reports panelists included Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, and Melinda Cameron, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

An article in The Architect’s Newspaper reports Coryn Kempster, adjunct assistant professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, is among the winners of the 2018 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers for his Eastman Reading Garden in Cleveland, Ohio. Articles also appeared on Bustler and Archinect. 

An article in Business First about upcoming economic-development conferences to be held in the Buffalo area reports in October the UB School of Architecture and Planning will host more than 1,000 representatives from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, and interviews Robert Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. The article also reports that the School of Architecture and Planning is one of 15 U.S. colleges and universities that will be showcased in the Global Arts Affairs Foundation’s Biennale in Venice, Italy.

An story on WBFO-FM about a proposal to turn an old and long-closed elevated railroad line into an elongated park and urban connector interviews Robert Shibley, dean of the UB School of Architecture and Planning, who said it would be distinctive. "Anytime you have elevation, you have view. That's view to and view from, and that changes the dynamic of your relationship with place," he said. "There's nostalgia about it, but you’ve got to get past that to really actively programming the space and that's kind of what I'm looking forward to learning about. It's one thing to make it special, it's another thing to activate it with people in it."

An article on Railway Technology looks at whether free public transit makes sense economically and interviews Daniel Hess, associate professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and Planning. “Although it would be valuable for transport managers in other cities to learn about this experience,” he said, “the Tallinn fare-free public transport program provides scant transferable evidence about how such a program can operate outside of a politicized context, which was crucial to its implementation in Estonia.”