During October 2005, a team of GPURP students, faculty and staff helped build a Habitat for Humanity house on St. Anns Drive in Iowa City.

Anne Russett, Evan Barrett, Steve Brown, and Brian Craig just returned from The Legislative and Policy Conference and Planners Day on Capitol Hill in DC.

Solon, Iowa (home of the famous Beef Days) recently received an Iowa Living Roadways grant to improve its Main Street, and the City is working with Field Problems students to develop a comprehensive plan to revitalize its downtown.

On April 27 the University of Iowa Department of Urban and Regional Planning co-sponsored the Iowa Home Ownership Education Project (IHOEP) Spring Conference in Iowa City.

Several of Heather MacDonald’s Affordable Housing Finance students attended this year’s Iowa Home Ownership Education Project (IHOEP) Spring Conference held in Iowa City on April 27.

Urban and Regional Planning is co-sponsoring the Supporting Home Ownership Education in Iowa conference. It will be held on Thursday, April 27, 2006 in the Iowa Memorial Union on the University of Iowa campus.

Congratulations to Dr. Richard Funderburg, our visiting Assistant Professor. On December 6, he successfully defended his dissertation titled Agglomeration, Production Externalities, and the Firm Location Decision and earned his Ph.D.

Last spring, Professor Bent Flyvbjerg from Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark, visited the University of Iowa as an Ida Beam Visiting Scholar.

Andy Jenkins in the Graduate College and Alan Peters in Urban and Regional Planning have just received a small grant to develop an experimental system to deliver three-dimensional mapping to Iowa communities.

Urban and Regional Planning and the Planning Department of the City of Iowa City have been working together on a 3D visualization model of potential changes to parts of the Burlington St. corridor.