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Planning Students, PLCC Earn Accolades at Maryland Sustainable Growth Awards
A Fall 2021 urban planning studio that used scenario planning to chart a thriving, sustainable future for one Montgomery County community and a UMD-led initiative to bring sustainable, equitable growth along the Purple Line light rail corridor have been honored by the Maryland Department of Planning in this year’s Sustainable Growth Awards.View Article Details for Planning Students, PLCC Earn Accolades at Maryland Sustainable Growth Awards 
National Conference on Small Business Anti-Displacement Finds Strength in Numbers
When James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Grace Young was asked to reflect on the best meal she ate last week, her mind gravitated to Hop Lee, a longstanding Cantonese restaurant in the heart of New York’s Chinatown. On any given weekday, its pastel dining room bustles with teachers, postal workers and residents who commune over plates of stir-fry and noodles.“It’s a feeling of warmth to just be there; I call it the ‘Cheers’ of Chinese restaurants,” she said. “And the food is wonderful.”View Article Details for National Conference on Small Business Anti-Displacement Finds Strength in Numbers 
2022 Kea Professor Corie Sharples on Designing Skylines, Re-Thinking Construction and Revisiting Old Haunts
Of all the iconic places conceived by SHoP Architects along New York City’s skyline, the one that gives Founding Principal Corie Sharples ‘87 the most satisfaction is the place she once vowed never to return: South Street Seaport’s Pier 17, a slice of Manhattan’s East River Waterfront that once housed a windowless marketplace of souvenir shops and chain restaurants.View Article Details for 2022 Kea Professor Corie Sharples on Designing Skylines, Re-Thinking Construction and Revisiting Old Haunts 
Study Finds Neighborhood Features Impact Mental and Physical Health for Better or Worse
Written by Allison Eatough ’97View Article Details for Study Finds Neighborhood Features Impact Mental and Physical Health for Better or Worse 
Maryland Takes Top Honors at 2022 AIA Baltimore Design Awards
Two stunning urban enclaves—“Stack Alley” by graduate students Joseph Chase Edwards (B.S. Architecture ’20) and Marcelino Defngin (B.S. Architecture ’21) and “Dwelling in the City” by undergraduate student Meredith Eby (B.S. Architecture ’22)—were awarded top honors in the graduate and undergraduate categories last week at the 2022 AIA Baltimore Excellence in Design Awards celebration.View Article Details for Maryland Takes Top Honors at 2022 AIA Baltimore Design Awards 
UMD Program Plants Seeds of Stormwater Relief
Of the many ways downpours disrupt the small town of North Brentwood, Maryland—from flooded basements to sodden front yards—one in particular is surprising: the walk to school. One of Prince George’s County’s oldest and lowest-lying towns along the Anacostia River is often overwhelmed by rain, with water pooling on roads and sidewalks, leaving children’s socks and shoes squishy as they head to class.View Article Details for UMD Program Plants Seeds of Stormwater Relief