MAPP News
Michelle Magalong Named Assistant Professor
Dr. Michelle Magalong, a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, will be promoted to Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation, shifting into her new role in the Fall of 2022. Magalong’s appointment marks a significant milestone for the Universit...View Article Details for Michelle Magalong Named Assistant Professor 
Planning Practicum Tackles America’s Hidden Infrastructure Crisis: Public Schools
Over the past two years, schools across the United States have grappled with how to educate kids in the era of COVID-19. But, for a large subset of schools, the battle to provide a safe place to learn stretches beyond a global pandemic: Aging school infrastructure is compromising the health and safe...View Article Details for Planning Practicum Tackles America’s Hidden Infrastructure Crisis: Public Schools 
PALS "Playlist" Highlights Musical History of Prince George's County
The "Sounds of Prince George's County" connects legendary artists--from Judas Priest to Duke Ellington--with their local roots in a new Spotify playlist, thanks to doctoral candidate Julia Kuhlman, who studies musicology and created the playlist through the university’s Partnership for Action Learni...View Article Details for PALS "Playlist" Highlights Musical History of Prince George's County 
A Future Worth Planning: Joint Studio Identifies Strategies for Ensuring a Just, Sustainable Montgomery County Community
One of the most challenging roles an urban planner must play is that of a soothsayer: prognosticating the future of a community in the face of almost impossibly unpredictable forces like climate change, the economy or a pandemic. But a fall studio by urban planning and historic preservation students...View Article Details for A Future Worth Planning: Joint Studio Identifies Strategies for Ensuring a Just, Sustainable Montgomery County Community 
Surviving a Sea Change
The biggest threat to the shorelines of Maryland’s Assateague State Park aren’t the throngs of tourists or galloping hooves of its wild horses: It’s climate change, the effects of which are eroding the island’s iconic beaches, dunes and diverse habitat.This summer, the first of two new design studio...View Article Details for Surviving a Sea Change Changing the Face of Affordable Housing: Mansur Abdul-Malik (MRED ’12)
When Mansur Abdul-Malik crunches a building’s pro forma, he doesn’t see numbers—he sees faces: the 10-year-old boy popping wheelies in Baltimore’s Hollander Ridge neighborhood; the D.C. family who needs a new stove; the dozens of residents who have his personal cellphone number.Abdul-Malik’s ability...View Article Details for Changing the Face of Affordable Housing: Mansur Abdul-Malik (MRED ’12)