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Substantial research is being conducted at the following research centers by DCRP faculty and doctoral students. Students enrolled in the Department of City and Regional Planning have many opportunities to become involved in research and community engagement. Opportunities are as varied as the department's programs of study and the individual faculty members' and students' interests.
Daniel Rodríguez
The Carolina Transportation Program is an interdisciplinary research and education program. CTP focuses on the study of transportation planning, transit, non-motorized transportation, and land use patterns, and their impacts on health, environment, energy and economic development at local, regional, national, and global scale.
Roberto Quercia, Director
America's economic competitiveness relies on the contribution and involvement of all. Yet, many of our citizens and communities lack the resources to compete and thrive in the New Economy. Neither government nor the private sector working alone can transform our distressed communities — but working together in an environment that fosters innovation, these sectors can help make these communities vital places to live and work. The Center for Community Capital works to create such an environment by helping shape public policies that promote and catalyze innovative community development.
Philip Berke, Director
As population increases in the United States and worldwide, development pressures also increase. Development is critical to meet legitimate human needs - housing, transportation, jobs - but it can degrade air quality, water quality and other environmental and quality-of-life assets. We need a new way to develop our communities - by creating designs that serve the same human needs, better support landscape conservation and greatly reduce material and energy use. The Institute's Center for Sustainable Community Design and its many campus and external collaborators seeks to advance this "sustainable community design" movement by developing strategies to improve environmental quality through better planning of regions, cities, neighborhoods, buildings and utility and transportation systems.
William M. Rohe, Director
The Center for Urban and Regional Studies, established in 1957, is a focal point for interdisciplinary urban and regional research at UNC-Chapel Hill. The Center's Faculty Fellows, experts from a variety of disciplines, represent many academic departments such as City & Regional Planning, Environmental Sciences & Engineering, Geography, Law, and Social Work. They regularly work with federal, state, and local government agencies as well as foundations to solve problems of center city revitalization, energy use and conservation, environmental management and protection, low-income housing, natural and manmade hazards, public service delivery, transportation, urban growth management, and water resources, among others. The Center has received national attention and recognition for its studies on urban growth management, coastal zone management, the mitigation of natural hazards, new community and other large-scale development, housing market dynamics, urban growth models, residential mobility and locational preferences, environmental protection, and planning and financing urban infrastructure. Through its Working-Paper Series, the Center releases its research findings to both the practitioner and academic communities.
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