Welcome

Welcome to the University of Maryland's Urban and Regional Planning and Design web site. We have a small, highly competitive program that gives students an opportunity to bridge disciplines, including Urban Planning, Design, Historic Preservation and Real Estate Development. Our nationally known faculty, the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, and our location in the Washington, D.C. metro area make the University of Maryland an exciting place to study urban planning, design, and historic preservation. We hope you can find all the information you need from the sites below. Our deadline for applications is January 1 2008 for the Fall semester of 2008. We do not have an admissions round in the Spring semester.

Marie Howland
Director, Ph.D. Program

PhD News

• New Book by John Frece Details Political History of Maryland's Smart Growth

  A new book by John W. Frece, Associate Director of the National Center for Smart Growth, details the politics and back-room maneuvering that in 1997 led to the creation of Maryland's well known Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation initiative.

• PhD Student Successfully Defends Thesis

  Rodney Harrell, a student in the Urban and Regional Planning and Design PhD Program, successfully defended his thesis, Understanding Modern Segregation: Suburbanization and the Black Middle Class.

• 2008 Commencement Ceremony

  Friday, May 23, 2008, 10 am
  School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
  Great Space

• Ph.D. Student Wins Summer Fellowship and Travel Grant

  Ph.D. student Joe Costanzo has been awarded the 2008 Summer Graduate Research Fellowship and the Goldhaber Travel Grant to attend and present at a conference in Rome, by the University's Graduate School.