October 25, 2018 | In the News
Rutgers University will receive a $2 million grant to open a Gun Violence Research Center, school administrators and state officials announced Wednesday in a presentation that included shooting survivor former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut...
October 15, 2018 | Internship Spotlight
by Cecile deLaurentis MPP/MCRP ’20 Blake Anderson, MCRP ’19 concentrated in Transportation and Land Use during his time at the Bloustein School. He chose to intern at the Taipei City Government Urban Renewal Office in 2018, and worked and lived...
October 11, 2018 | Event Recap
10/10 2018 Building Communities for All Ages in New Jersey: Advancing Local Economies, Quality of Life, and Social Cohesion click to play Presented by the Bloustein School, Rutgers School of Social Work, and AARP New Jersey is a state with many diverse residents of...
October 11, 2018 | In the News
While school construction may increase New Jersey’s debt load, this infrastructure-rebuilding program generates jobs and taxes and bolsters the economy. A study conducted by the Rutgers Center for Urban Policy Research and the Heldrich Center for Workforce...
October 10, 2018 | In the News
In June Murphy signed a bill to create a state version of this mandate, making New Jersey only the second state to do so; he also approved a measure to create a federally funded reinsurance system that would help Garden State insurance companies offset the burden of...
October 9, 2018 | Career, News
“Technology is the answer. What was the question?” Anthony Durante, Bloustein graduate and senior planner at the design and engineering firm Arup, brought up this quote from architect Cedric Price to illustrate his work. Technology is front and center for Arup, an...
October 8, 2018 | In the News, News
A Bloustein School urban planning studio was chosen to represent the school and present the Newark Liberty Airport: Arriving at Aerotropolis urban design studio at the 2018 APA Annual Studio Showcase held May 9 at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. The annual...
October 3, 2018 | In the News
In their 1987 article in Planning magazine, “The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust,” Deborah and Frank Popper proposed a plan to transform the Great Plans into a 10-state national reserve. Their proposal prompted a wave of letters to the editor, inspired a...
September 25, 2018 | In the News
So far this decade, population growth in urban areas in north Jersey has outpaced that of suburban areas, with Hunterdon, Monmouth, Sussex and Warren counties actually losing population between 2010 and 2017, U.S. Census data shows. The reason, according to many...
September 21, 2018 | In the News
Ellen Dunham-Jones literally has written the book on suburban redevelopment. Her effort, “Retrofitting Suburbia,” came out in 2009 (ahead of its time). She is working on its latest update. So, when the Georgia Tech professor came to Rutgers University to discuss her...
September 20, 2018 | In the News
Some issues may be settled in law but remain contested in culture. Abortion is one such issue. It’s been 45 years since the U.S. Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, found a constitutional right to abortion and yet the debate rages on. A recent Marist poll found that most...
September 20, 2018 | In the News
Demographers say that the current trend of closing bank branches is of no surprise. They say that as development booms in once-shrinking cities like Newark and Jersey City and smaller towns along rail lines, rural areas of Sussex, Hunterdon, Ocean and Monmouth...
September 20, 2018 | In the News
The overall average in New Jersey for what is considered to be middle class income for a family of four is between $60,000 and $177,000 a year. According to Rutgers University economist James Hughes, “middle class” can mean many things these days. But...
September 20, 2018 | In the News
For the first time in the post-Great Recession period, suburban growth in New Jersey surpassed that of the regional core. But after six years of a dramatic shift toward urbanization and New Jersey’s downtowns, was 2017 just a blip or is suburban growth here to...
