Articles from August 2007
![Featured Alumni - Karin Franklin Featured Alumni - Karin Franklin](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/Karin%20Franklin.gif?h=508b7a04&itok=2G4R1VGs)
Featured Alumni - Karin Franklin
Karin Franklin, a 1981 graduate, served as Iowa City's Director of Planning and Community Development before her retirement in July 2007.
![A New Housing Study for Iowa](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-07/HousingStudyGraph%20092906.jpeg.jpeg?h=a72fcc80&itok=gCccjd6z)
A New Housing Study for Iowa
![Open House Open House](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/Ben_Goldsworthy.gif?h=881888aa&itok=ldrU9bw1)
Field Problems travels further afield
![Student profile - Bill Micheel, 1st Year Graduate Student Student profile - Bill Micheel, 1st Year Graduate Student](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/bill%20micheel3.jpg?h=f0052822&itok=JSNx03kd)
Student profile - Bill Micheel, 1st Year Graduate Student
My favorite thing about the department is the people and the social events. The department had a flag football team this fall, we’re having a basketball team this winter, and are going to have a softball team this spring.
![Policy Summit: Planning for a Better Region Policy Summit: Planning for a Better Region](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/PublicEngagement.jpg?h=8a0e61cf&itok=WCWqFyvI)
Policy Summit: Planning for a Better Region
On February 3, GPURP hosted a policy summit titled “Planning for a Better Region: A Summit for Policy Makers, Planners, and the Public in the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Region.
![Students present plan to Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation Commission Students present plan to Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation Commission](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/MtVernonPlan.jpg?h=eccbf198&itok=0o0boezn)
Students present plan to Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation Commission
Graduating students Bogdana Rus, Kara Homan, and Michael Ayer presented their Mount Vernon Parks and Schools Safe Connections Plan to the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission the evening of Wednesday, April 18.
![The Context of Local Economic Development Policy The Context of Local Economic Development Policy](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/EconDevPolicyGrp.jpg?h=9fc23939&itok=wDEvb20y)
The Context of Local Economic Development Policy
Students of local development policy in the United States quickly learn that the practice is better characterized by pragmatic responses to interregional competition than by allusions to economic theory or abstract principles.
![Professor Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Presents lecture Professor Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Presents lecture](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/OleJensen.jpg?h=32cb49a8&itok=kvFYfTID)
Professor Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Presents lecture
![National Housing Trust President gives guest lectures National Housing Trust President gives guest lectures](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/MichaelBodaken.jpg?h=e676d4e3&itok=4abUFoXG)
National Housing Trust President gives guest lectures
Michael Bodaken, President of the National Housing Trust/Enterprise Preservation Corporation, entertained students in the Housing Finance class recently with the story of how he ended up in community development, via tenant organizing in Topeka, Kansas,
![Congratulations to our newest graduates Congratulations to our newest graduates](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/Grad051207.jpg?h=92ef4fb8&itok=giTfyjJi)