Using Data and Emerging Technologies to Improve Urban Life

Using Data and Emerging Technologies to Improve Urban Life

The Rutgers Urban and Civic Informatics Lab (RUCI Lab) was recently founded at the Bloustein School, with the mission of using new sources of data and emerging technologies to study the health of cities, and by doing so, improve the quality of urban life. This week,...

EJB|DESIGNS earns second in 2020 APA Student Organization Awards

EJB DESIGNS, a student organization of the Bloustein School that seeks to facilitate discussion, practice, and innovation in the graphic conveyance of planning ideas, placed second in the jury selection for the American Planning Association’s 2020 Outstanding...

2020: 5/8 How COVID-19 is Affecting Public Transportation

5/8 How COVID-19 is Affecting Public Transportation click to play A diverse group of panelists in the transportation arena discussed their agencies’ responses to COVID-19 on an online panel hosted by the Bloustein School and the Bloustein/New York City Alumni Group....

Mi Shih promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

Mi Shih, who joined the faculty of the Bloustein School in 2014 as an assistant professor, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. At the graduate level, she teaches courses in Planning Methods and International Urbanization and Housing Issues,...

Labor force participation rate signals massive job loss

Forrester is out of work and has no income. But he wouldn’t be counted as “unemployed” by the Labor Department because he’s not “actively looking for work.” He had a job lined up with the Census Bureau, but it’s been put on hold. “There’s really not a lot of...

Is mail delivery a right or a privilege?

Postal workers, like doctors, nurses, fire, police and other essential workers, are getting sick and dying while working on the front lines of the corona­virus pandemic. And yet the critical service they provide all across America is in jeopardy. Revenue to the U.S....
EJBTalks: Will The Cities of the Future Change?

EJBTalks: Will The Cities of the Future Change?

There has been both in- and out-migration from cities now for years depending upon economic conditions, but the pandemic has hit our cities and high-density areas the hardest. After years of re-urbanization, are we going to see a new wave of urban flight? Has the...