In its annual 50 Best Careers feature, US News and World Report cites urban and regional planning as one of the 50 top choices for this coming year.

Assistant Professor Rick Funderburg was recently quoted in an article appearing in the Cedar Rapids Gazette about Coralville's "Stories" plan for the Iowa River Landing.

The August 2007 issue of Outside magazine lists Iowa City among its 30 best towns in which to live.

On November 16-18, Jim Throgmorton participated in The Virginia Tech Symposium on Enhancing Resilience to Catastrophic Events through Communicative Planning.

The Subprime Housing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Policy Perspectives, the second in the Forkenbrock Symposium Series, will be held October 10th and 11th.

We, faculty and students, get so wrapped up in our projects and courses that we often forget just what keeps the whole place running. When machinery breaks down around here, we turn to Joe Stockman, the Area Maintenance Mechanic for Jessup Hall.

On September 11th & 12 Urban and Regional Planning will be co-sponsoring Transportation Finance and Ecomomics Symposium: Policies for the Future, with the Public Policy Center.

As part of their Field Problems project, four URP students worked to put together a Village Plan for Frytown, which is located in southwestern Johnson County. On May 15th, the plan was adopted by the Johnson County Board of Supervisors!

The relationship between locating low income housing and appreciation of neighboring single family homes may be more complex than suggested by current theory.

One of our more prolific graduates, Jim Schwab, employed with the APA, has just published an article in the Spring 2008 issue of American Forests.