Welcome

Welcome to the University of Maryland's Urban and Regional Planning and Design web site. We have a small, highly competitive program that gives students an opportunity to bridge disciplines, including Urban Planning, Design, Historic Preservation and Real Estate Development. Our nationally known faculty, the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, and our location in the Washington, D.C. metro area make the University of Maryland an exciting place to study urban planning, design, and historic preservation. We hope you can find all the information you need from the sites below. Our deadline for applications is January 1 2008 for the Fall semester of 2008. We do not have an admissions round in the Spring semester.

Marie Howland
Director, Ph.D. Program

PhD News

• Rodney Harrell successfully defended his thesis on May 12, 2008

• PhD Students Present Papers at Graduate Research Interaction Day (GRID)

  PhD students Lynette Boswell, Joe Costanzo, Jung Ho Shin, and Maria Teresa Souza presented their research at the Graduate Research Interaction Day (GRID).

• PhD Student Presents Paper at Annual Graduate Student Conference in College Park

  Joe Costanzo presented a recent paper entitled, "The Mutual Benefits of 'Deep, Rich' and 'Hard, Generalizable': A Mixed-Method Strategy in Social Science Research" at the 2008 EDHI/EDPS Graduate Student Research Conference on the theme of "Education Discourses in the 21st Century."
  

• PhD Graduate's Article Published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research

  Our second Ph.D. graduate, Vikas Mehta, has just published an article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.