Urban & Regional Planning

Lan Deng, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Urban

PlanningResearch and Teaching Interests:

Housing Policy and Economics, Fiscal Planning and Management, Real Estate and Urban Development Geographic Information System

Sign-up sheet

Are you interested in positive social, economic, environmental, and physical change?

Do you want to work with people from various backgrounds to develop a better community?

Do you like to communicate with others about ideas, programs, and plans?

Are you challenged by complex problems – and excited about being part of a cooperative process to devise solutions to those problems?

Do you think about the future – about what could be – rather than about what is?

1. Our goal is to educate the future leaders of the profession.

2. We have a faculty that embodies interdisciplinarity.

3. We emphasize learning planning by doing planning.

4. We define urban and regional planning as a professional and scholarly field.

5. Our focus is on "place"—whether neighborhoods, cities, rural areas, or regions.

1. At the master's level, we offer a core curriculum that covers material we believe all planners should know

2. We offer an interdisciplinary doctorate

3. We offer several concentrations

4. We offer real estate certificate and spatial analysis certificate as well as other certificates.

5. We offer dual-degrees

Land Use + Environmental Planning

Housing, Community, and Economic Development

Planning in Developing Countries

Physical Planning and Urban Design

Transportation Planning

We are part of a college that also offers architecture and urban design.

We are part of the University of MichiganAnn Arbor is a cosmopolitan community, high

quality of life. We are close to Detroit.

• Transformative Development : The Michigan program is the ONLY US real estate program that exclusively focuses on walkable urban real estate development

• A joint venture of Architecture & Planning, Ross School of Business, and the Law School.

• A stand-alone certificate program

• Hands on Experience —The program is led by a practitioner, hence has a hands-on focus

California Coastal Commission

Chicago Department of Transportation

City of Ann Arbor

City of New York

City of Orlando

City of Portland

City of South Bend

Congresswoman Gwen Moore, US House of Representatives

Government of the District of Columbia

King County, Seattle

Michiana Area Council Of Governments [MACOG]

Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission

Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago

NYC Dept of City Planning

Southeast Council of Governments [SEMCOG]

Southern California Association of Governments [SCAG]

US Department of Defense, Office of Economic Adjustment

Village of Mundelein, Illinois

Wayne County Michigan – Community Mental Health Agency

AKRFApplied Ecological ServicesCooper Roberts Simonsen AssociatesEngelhardt, Hammer & AssociatesGeneral MotorsGruen AssociatesICF Jones & StokesMorris-Depew Associates, IncParsons BrinckerhoffProVisions, LLCS. B. Friedman & CompanySaccardi & Schiff, Inc.TRCU.P. Engineers & ArchitectsUrbanTrans Consultants, Inc.Westphal Associates LLCWRG Design

Michigan Suburbs Alliance

Mid-Peninsula Housing CoalitionMott MacDonald- Representative Office in MoscowNational Community Reinvestment Coalition

Michigan Sea Grant

University of Michigan – Dearborn

American Planning Association [APA]www.planning.org

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning [ACSP]www.acsp.org

Michigan Association of Planning [MAP]www.planningmi.org

Program Website:

taubmancollege.umich.edu/urp

Program Brochure and DVD