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Few things are as sumptuous as cozying up in a waterfront Adirondack chair with a cup of hot coffee and taking in the view.

The Federal Transit Administration has announced a $1.5 million grant to help the University of Maryland’s Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC) develop a plan to add affordable housing, preserve small businesses and improve access for walkers and cyclists in neighborhoods at risk for gentrification and displacement along the coming light-rail route.

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.

New affordable housing near transit stops, improved pedestrian safety and small business preservation along the coming Purple Line are needed to protect and strengthen the surrounding communities, according to a new report released Wednesday to federal, state and local stakeholders by the Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC) and the University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth.

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.

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.

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.

The Colvin Institute at the University of Maryland is proud to announce the 1st Annual Colvin Case Study Challenge. The Challenge is a national real estate paper competition, where projects are judged on the depth of understanding of markets, project valuation, finance, urban design, entitlement processes and operational issues by leading real estate professionals. This is

Towards the end of a difficult spring semester in 1985, Chris McCabe (B.S. Architecture ’85, M.ARCH ’87) was at a crossroads. Having studied architecture at UMD for four years, she was uncertain as to whether she had the talent and confidence needed to tackle the Master’s program in architecture.

MAPP is proud to announce that Ariel Bierbaum, along with her team of three other researchers, has secured $50,000 in research grant funding from the Spencer Foundation’s Small Research Grants Program. The grant will allow continuing work into the socioeconomic impact of public school closures in Philadelphia, and will look specifically at issues of school reuse and/or demolition.

Bill Bonstra, FAIA (B.ARCH ’83) has spent his career as an architect seeking to enrich people’s lives through thoughtful design, a philosophy he has extended to his relationship with the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation for over 30 years.

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