Fears and reality: TOD efforts often encounter fear of overdevelopment, including the financial burden of educating more children and, ironically, increased automotive traffic].
In reality, transit-oriented developments tend to have smaller households with fewer children and cars, according to a 2012 presentation by Jon Carnegie, executive director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
As we finish creating digital representations, or features, of historical water bodies for our project to create a dataset of historical water bodies in New Jersey, we begin exploring how these water bodies have changed over time. In GIS, the process of quantifying...
The Bloustein School is proud to join the Constructive Dialogue Scaling Initiative, a national program bringing together leading schools of public service to embed constructive dialogue deeply and durably across their institutions. At a moment when open dialogue feels...
Understanding Climate Risk at Home: Sea Level Rise, Community Engagement, and New Jersey's Environmental Future with Janine Barr Janine Barr, a researcher at the Bloustein School's Environmental Analysis and Communication (EAC) Group, joins Dean Stuart Shapiro this...
Read Original Post on Rutgers Today, April 28, 2026 Lt. Governor’s Daughter Blazes Her Own Trail of Service at Rutgers Ashley Caldwell, who has served on the New Brunswick school board since her junior year, graduates this spring On the first day of her final semester...
Students enrolled in Introduction to Urban Planning & Design recently took part in a hands-on field trip to two recently completed waterfront park projects as part of the course's Spring lecture series and experiential learning component. Led by Professor Carmelo...