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Summer Internships in China for MURP Students

Summer Internships in China for MURP Students
Applications are now being accepted from PSU MURP students interested in learning firsthand about urban planning in China.
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About our school

About our school
The Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning is the nation's oldest continuously operating instructional program in urban studies.
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Masters of Real Estate Development

Masters of Real Estate Development
With the support of the Center for Real Estate Development, Portland State University's Toulan School of Urban Studies & Planning and the School of Business Administration have joined together to offer the Master of Real Estate Development degree.
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Upcoming Events

  

PSU Masters of Urban and Regional Planning named "top-notch, cool, and practical" degree program by  

 

TSUSP is pleased to announce the availability of three Portland Planning Diversity Awards for incoming MURP students enrolling Fall 2012.

The deadline for MURP, MUS, and Ph.D. application submissions has passed.  Due to the high volume of applicants, we are unable to provide the current status of your application, however, we will do our best to contact you if your submission is missing any materials.  You may expect to hear a decision by the end of March, 2012.  Thank you!

 

USP 614, History and Theory of Urban Studies (3 units)

Thursdays, 4:00-6:30pm

Instructor: Carl Abbott

"History and Theory of Urban Studies" is intended to provide an intellectual context for advanced courses in the urban studies graduate program by framing the historical process of urbanization, outlining the evolution of urban social analysis, and exploring the underlying ideas and approaches that are shared by the different academic disciplines.  Its focus is both on the content of urban analysis and on the underlying assumptions about cities and city living that have shaped that analysis.  The course will examine both classic writers on cities and new approaches that have emerged in the last few years. Syllabus.

USP 410-001, Community Organizing and Social Justice (3 units)

Mondays, 4:00-6:30pm

Instructor: Karen Gibson

Community organizing seeks to involve people in collective action to address issues of social justice. This course situates organizing within an historical context, primarily focusing upon the rise and fall of the American labor movement in the 20th century, to enlighten students about the key contemporary challenges of community organizing.   Students will cover the basic philosophy and goals of community organizing and the various elements of the organizing process (analysis and strategy development, action plans, organizational development, and leadership roles).   This course will also survey various types of organizing models.

This course is an elective for the Community Development major.

TSUSP News:

On February 29th, Associate Professor Karen Gibson hosts a panel discussion with long-time Albina residents on The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, a novel about growing up biracial and bicultural in a mostly black community during 1980s Portland. The discussion is part of Multnomah County Library's Everybody Reads program, sponsored in part by PSU.  Check out a copy of the book so you can join the discussion!
Professor Carl Abbott, author of the new book, Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People, is profiled on his life and home in Northeast Portland on local blog www.iliveherepdx.com.
Every holiday season, the Portland Development Commission (PDC) and the Portland Business Alliance (PBA) support a handful of Pop Ups in the Portland downtown retail core. This year, Planning Club, along with MURP alum, PDC's Katherine Krajnak, will host a walking tour of these 5 temporary shop locations.  Read more about Downtown Portland Pop ups...
 In July, students Mike Bray, Anastaya Raichart, and Megan Brown (three of eight students who researched International Community Development practice in Nicaragua) designed an online catalog featuring fair trade artwork of Nicaraguan Artisans for Esperanza en Accion, Managua, Nicaragua. Esperanza recently launched the catalog here.
MURP student Misty Schymtzik travels to Namibia's West Bwabwata Park and chronicles her travels, experiences, and research in her blog.
Aided by a feasibility study conducted by MURP workshop group Adelante Planning, Hacienda CDC unveiled their plans for Portland Mercado. June 26. 2011.

Students enrolled in Professor Richard White’s Summer Seminar on International Sustainable Community Development traveled to Nicaragua to learn from and share with community members there. The students provided a chronicle of their thoughts, experiences and insights in a class blog, available here.
 

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