June 30, 2023 | Urban Planning Studios
With the city’s existing transportation conditions in mind and a goal of providing last-mile connections and facilitating otherwise difficult crosstown travel, this graduate planning studio class aims to support the City of Jersey City Department of...
December 22, 2021 | Undergraduate Urban Planning Design Student Spotlights
Alexander Liz, Urban Planning and Design ’21 Hometown: Hackensack, NJ Estimator, Montana Construction, Lodi, NJ Alexander Liz didn’t set out to major in urban planning, but the experience he gained has fully set the tone for his career. “My original major in...
July 30, 2020 | Public Informatics Student Projects, Student Projects
Student projects include advanced data visualizations with R, Python, Tableau and other tools. Here, using anonymized cell phone location data, visits to businesses, parks and other public spaces were recorded and visualized.
July 15, 2020 | Research, Publications, and Reports
Experiences and Insights from a Comprehensive Health Impact Assessment Initiative led by Rutgers University with support from the Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. The views expressed are those...
June 23, 2020 | Public Informatics Student Projects, Student Projects
This NYC Citibike interactive dashboard, an independent student research project in informatics, presents Citibike data to study how movement patterns changed during the pandemic.
November 20, 2018 | Research, Publications, and Reports
This “Perspectives from the Field” article written by Bloustein School staff Karen Lowrie, Ph.D. (Environmental Analysis and Communications Group) and Leigh Ann Von Hagen, AICP/PP (Voorhees Transportation Center), covers lessons learned from teaching Health Impact...
April 17, 2017 | Research, Publications, and Reports
This rapid HIA is an analysis of the health impacts of the potential new bike share program planned for Rutgers and three surrounding communities. The report, prepared for the Rutgers University Department of Institutional Planning and Operation (IPO) by a...
July 26, 2016 | Research, Publications, and Reports
Rutgers University followed two pre-disaster recovery and resilience planning HIAs, consulted with disaster recovery and HIA thought leaders nationally, and reviewed relevant scientific literature to offer overarching national recommendations for integration of HIA...
July 26, 2016 | Research, Publications, and Reports
The Mystic Island HIA considers the health impacts of hypothetical voluntary residential property buyout program scenarios for purposes of flood mitigation in Little Egg Harbor Township (LEHT), New Jersey for residents of Mystic Island, a community within the township...
July 18, 2016 | Research, Publications, and Reports
The Hoboken Proposed Stormwater Management Plan HIA was intended to inform the City’s stormwater management planning process as well as the decision-making of the Hoboken City Council as it considers a comprehensive stormwater management ordinance. The HIA considers...
October 9, 2014 | Research, Publications, and Reports
In partnership with New Jersey Future and the College of New Jersey, Rutgers University is leading a project to assess health impacts of post-Sandy decision-making and recovery. The project is funded by The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood...
