This weekend (March 1st & 2nd) is the annual Carolina Planning open house for the prospective class of 2018. As we welcome the new cohort to our community, it’s a perfect time to check in with our recent graduates and see what they’re up to. Enjoy this update from the DCRP class of 2015! Walker Freer ‘15 Associate, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates Boston, MA In compact … Continue reading Beyond DCRP: Alumni Updates
Inspired by UNC DCRP students. Texas Donut What you want it to be: What it actually is: Charrette It’s just a lovely word to say out loud. Go on, say it, charrette. Desire lines Also known as desire paths Megalopolis A chain of urbanized regions where Snuffaluffagus hangs out Hedonic regression Revealed preferences for mom’s mac and cheese Road diet High … Continue reading Eight Fun Planning Terms
Planners’ Forum and Carolina Planning Journal, two student-led organizations in the Department of City and Regional Planning at The University of North Carolina, were recently named joint recipients of the American Planning Association (APA) Outstanding Planning Student Organization Award for 2016. The APA Student Representatives Council (SRC) Executive Committee designed this awards program to, as stated on the APA website: promote students’ volunteer involvement in their … Continue reading Carolina Graduate Student Organizations Win American Planning Association Award
While the country goes crazy over historic rivalries, cinderella stories, and buzzer beaters, we here at Angles are also getting pumped up about geocoding, a tasteful compass rose, and killer spatial data. That’s right, in addition to worshiping basketball (Go Heels!) we are taking this mad month to celebrate MAPS! Send us your favorite map. This could be a map you made, a printed map … Continue reading Announcing March Mapness
We are all on the edge of our seats waiting for the Triangle’s light rail to start making tracks. But where will its course lie? What cities will be graced with a stop? And what will it look like? Let’s look to a far off and distant land yet one near in Northern nomenclature to gain inspiration for this new transit infrastructure. Few tourists are … Continue reading A Look at Pyongyang’s Placemaking in Metro Stations
This article by Mark Hough originally appeared in Planetizen, on April 20 2014. There is a great Facebook page titled Dirty Old 1970s New York City that self-identifies as “The official page of the dirty, old, affordable, real, honest, gritty, rough and tough New York City of the 1970s.” It is essentially a visual ode to the unglamorous and mostly forgotten urban landscape that existed in … Continue reading Durham: Finding Authenticity
In Durham recently, some businesses are beginning to raise wages because they want to do well by their employees. Voluntary living wage certification programs have gained popularity in the last few years as a way to make wage gains without calling for legislative action or government spending. The Durham Living Wage Project (DLWP) in Durham, NC, began in early 2015 and has already certified 75 … Continue reading Why Pay Living Wage? Because it’s the Right Thing to Do
Arts and culture have become widely accepted instruments for economic development and revitalization. Coming into public consciousness perhaps most recognizably in the work of Richard Florida and his theories of building, or rebuilding, a city around the creative class. Nebulous as they are, arts and culture are the protean intangibles in many urban planning projects, sought after to attract well-educated, mobile citizens. One form of … Continue reading Art as An Economic Mobilizer in the Carolinas
2015 was a great and productive year for The Carolina Planning Journal! We published Volume 40 of our print journal, “Planning for the New Economy;” we launched our online platform, Angles; we met with planning practitioners at the North Carolina American Planning Association conference in Raleigh, NC, and with planners from all over the nation at the 2015 American Planning Association conference in Seattle; we … Continue reading Happy New Year from the Carolina Planning Journal!
Wake County, North Carolina is growing, and fast. In 2013, to better manage this exponential growth that adds 63 people per day, the city of Raleigh (at the heart of Wake County), adopted a new “Unified Development Ordinance” (UDO). The UDO has been successful in many respects by encouraging compact, pedestrian-oriented development to preserve natural resources and enhance overall quality of life1. In spite of … Continue reading Planning for Schools in Raleigh, NC
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