The Urban Design and Planning Ph.D. program brings together faculty from disciplines ranging from Architecture to Sociology to focus on the interdisciplinary study of urban problems and interventions. Covering scales from neighborhoods to metropolitan areas, the program addresses interrelationships between the physical environment, the built environment, and the social, economic and political institutions and processes that shape urban areas. The breadth of this program permits students to pursue doctoral studies in the various aspects of urban design and planning as well as in a number of related social science, natural resource and engineering areas.
Degree(s) offered
Doctor of Philosophy (Urban Design & Planning)
Program director/interdisciplinary group chair
- Qing Shen, Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning
Interdisciplinary Faculty Group Membership
The following are the core/voting Graduate Faculty members of the interdisciplinary group. For a complete list of faculty active in the program, see the program website.
- Dan Abramson, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning
- Arthur Acolin, Assistant Professor, Runstad Department of Real Estate
- Marina Alberti, Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning
- Christine Bae, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning
- Xuejang (Jeff) Ban, Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Rachel Berney, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning
- Branden Born, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning
- Ann Bostrom, Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
- Christopher Campbell, Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban Design and Planning
- Cynthia Chen, Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Kyle Crowder, Professor, Department of Sociology
- Sofia Dermisi, Professor, Department of Real Estate and Department of Urban Design & Planning
- Elaine Faustman, Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
- Jon Froehlich, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science & Engineering
- Himanshu Grover, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning
- David Layton, Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
- Don Mackenzie, Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- John Marzluff, Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
- David Montgomery, Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences
- Monika Moskal, Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
- Anne Vernez-Moudon, Professor Emeritus, Department of Urban Design and Planning
- Mark Purcell, Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning
- Qing Shen, Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning
- Janice Whittington, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning