May 6, 2016 | In the News
New Jersey has regained 91 percent of the jobs lost during the recession. Nancy Mantell, the director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service, predicts the balance will be recovered by early next year. The most job growth over the next decade will be in education and...
May 6, 2016 | In the News
“Is slow-go now the new economic normal for New Jersey? It kind of looks that way,” said James W. Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. “Our once great 20th century suburban job creation machine has really faltered in...
May 6, 2016 | In the News
“This was the state’s best performance since 2000,” said Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON). “We should recover the balance by early 2017, and by the end of the forecast period in 2026, the employment base should be 370,000 jobs,...
April 30, 2016 | News, Urban Planning Studios
In early April, a group of Bloustein School students traveled to Atlantic City to present two different neighborhood plans to the Atlantic City Planning Board. In front of an eager audience, the media, and the viewing public, Dan Brooks, Molly Coon, Katelyn Hansen,...
April 29, 2016 | In the News
The concept of “Smart Cities” incorporates improving the quality of life by using technology to improve the efficiency of city services and meet residents’ needs. This program will explain Smart City technology such as: saving energy, adding security, creating...
April 21, 2016 | Alumni Spotlight, News
Bill Cesanek MCRP ’77, AICP, Vice President at CDM Smith and Chair of APA’s Water Task Force, talks about the state of water issues in planning and provides an update on the work of the Water Task Force in a video feature by the American Planning...
April 4, 2016 | In the News
County College of Morris students majoring in health administration, public health, public policy, and urban planning and design will now be able to transfer with full credit to the Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. CCM and...
April 4, 2016 | In the News
But don’t expect the state unemployment rate to drop much lower. According to James W. Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, the jobless rate rarely dips below 4 percent, even when the economy is going like...
March 25, 2016 | In the News
According to James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, New Jersey has seen a “new demographic normal” since 2010 as people step away from the suburbs they once clamored for, and instead move into the...
March 25, 2016 | In the News
New Jerseyans have been waiting for a long time. While the U.S. had regained all of the nearly 9 million jobs that it lost in the recession by March 2014, New Jersey’s job market muddled along. At times, it seemed like it would gain momentum. But in...
March 25, 2016 | In the News
Sussex County remains on pace to lose population between 10-year U.S. censuses for the first time in a century. The Census Bureau’s annual population estimates, released Thursday, showed the county’s population decreasing from 145,004 in 2014 to 143,673 in...
March 24, 2016 | In the News
A decades-long population shift from northeastern New Jersey to other parts of the state has come to an abrupt halt, with Bergen and Hudson counties leading a new growth trend that has potentially broad financial, political and social implications. The New Jersey...
March 24, 2016 | In the News
Although residents have moved out, nearly 50,000 immigrants came to the city of Philadelphia in the same time period – and their numbers, experts said, are what counterbalance other losses, as in other Eastern cities. “What’s keeping us from...
