Ph. D. Program in Urban and Regional Planning and Design  

Director

Marie Howland, Ph.D.                                                                            mhowland@umd.edu

Administrative Assistant

Julie Jarvis-Myers                                                                                   jjarvis@umd.edu

Students

Lynette Boswell                                                                                       lkboswell@gmail.com

Mark Braza                                                                                                BrazaM@gao.gov

Carolina Burnier                                                                                      cburnier@umd.edu

Joseph Costanzo                                                                                    imgnjoe@aol.com

Scott Dempwolf                                                                                       dempy@umd.edu

Rodney Harrell                                                                                         harrell@umd.edu

Yoonhee Kim                                                                                            yunie.kim@gmail.com

Selma Lewis                                                                                            selma@umd.edu

Chao Liu                                                                                                    cliu8@umd.edu

Doan Bao Luu Nguyen                                                                           dbnguyen@umd.edu

Robert Jay Orr                                                                                           jayorr5@hotmail.com

Blythe Semmer                                                                                         bsemmer@umd.edu

Jung Ho Shin                                                                                            jhshin1@umd.edu

Andrea Livi Smith                                                                                     andikappa@mac.com

Maria Teresa Souza                                                                                msouza@umd.edu

Aysegul Yilmaz                                                                                         aysegul@umd.edu

Feng Zhang                                                                                              fzhang@umd.edu

Xingshuo Zhao                                                                                        surely@umd.edu

Graduates as of 2007 Fall:

Arnab Chakraborty                                                                                   arnab@uiuc.edu

Vikas Mehta                                                                                               mehta@arch.usf.edu

Marco Scuderi

 

Doan Nguyen: "During my PhD candidacy, I started to teach while conducting my own research, and worked for the National Center for Smart Growth. The program's structure is flexible enough to allow me to take all courses important to my own research; not just to fulfill the doctoral requirements."

Rodney Harrell: "I was attracted to our PhD program because of the intimate size of the program, its location, and its interdisciplinary structure. I have been able to design and undertake a dissertation project, teach courses, and pursue other research interests while here."

Maria Teresa Souza: "I appreciate the coupling of academic rigor and flexibility. After only four core courses, I could develop my own curriculum. While examining the relationship of urban regulation to informal housing, I needed to understand spatial analysis, statistics, econometrics and microeconomics. The university's graduate programs have more than met my needs for instruction in these diverse fields."