CONTACT:
Emil E. Malizia
Department Chair
Roberto Quercia
Director of
Admissions
William
M. Rohe
Doctoral Program Director
Daniel
Rodríguez
Director
of Master's
Program
Carolyn
Turner
Undergraduate
Minor and Dual
Degree Programs
Carolyn
Turner
Student Services
Director
2.26.08
The Department
of City and Regional Planning is one of the largest, oldest, and best
known programs
of graduate planning education and research in North America.
It was founded in 1946 to demonstrate
the practical application of social science methods to problems of
government and the interdisciplinary
union of social science, design and engineering. It was the
first planning program in the nation with its
principal university base in the social sciences rather than in landscape
design or architecture. It has
retained and strengthened its legacy while expanding the breadth and
depth of its programs to include
a full range of graduate planning study.
Degrees awarded
Doctoral Program
The doctoral program in planning is designed for individuals who seek careers in academic
research and teaching or in applied research with governmental or private organizations.
Master's Program
The Master of Regional Planning (MRP) program is a two-year professional program that helps
students develop the specific skills, decision-making ability, and breadth of judgment needed
for positions of leadership in the planning profession. The department also offers dual degree
opportunities (Planning & Law, Planning & Business, Planning & Public Health, Planning &
Landscape Architecture and Planning & Public Administration) and several certificate programs.
The dual degree programs are designed to minimize the time necessary for students to earn
professional degrees in both fields.
Undergraduate Minor
The department offers an undergraduate minor in Urban Studies and Planning.
The faculty
The department's distinguished faculty members hold advanced degrees
from the nation's most
prestigious universities in city and regional planning and in a broad
range of planning-related fields
of study, including architecture, business, civil engineering, economics,
human ecology, landscape
architecture, law, natural resources, public affairs, regional science,
technological & environmental
planning, transportation, urban studies, and water resources.
Students
and alumni
The department attracts excellent students, and the record of career
placements is exceptional.
The department's alumni, numbering over 2000, hold positions, in this
country and abroad,
as directors and associate directors of planning in the planning departments
of large and small cities,
counties, regions, and states; as planners in housing and community
development agencies, in
transportation, environmental, and economic development organizations,
and in various branches
of the federal service; as executive directors or staff members of
public interest organizations, research
organizations, private development firms, and financial institutions;
as private consultants; as planning
advisers to communities and developing areas; and as deans, chairs,
and faculty members of educational
institutions.
Areas of study
The program of instruction in city and regional planning reflects
the breadth of the faculty's academic
and research backgrounds with about fifty formal courses offered by
the department each year.
Master’s and doctoral students pursue specializations in community
development, economic
development, environmental planning, land use planning and design,
and transportation planning.
Additional instructional opportunities are abundant in the many other
graduate and professional degree
programs of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at
nearby universities (Duke University
and NCSU), where UNC students can take courses without paying additional
tuition.
Sufficient flexibility exists in the program to allow students to
take advantage of the wide array of
instructional possibilities to plan a graduate curriculum best suited
to meet their career objectives.