In this weekend’s Seattle Times, EJB’s John Pucher discusses Seattle’s decline in bicycling. Once the vanguard of bicycling in North America with one of the highest commuting rates of any major city, Seattle has fallen greatly behind in the last two decades due to a...
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Rutgers mourns passing of professor Alan Rosenthal, redistricting tiebreaker
The Eagleton Institute of Politics reports, with great sadness, the death of Professor Alan Rosenthal on July 10, 2013. A member of the Rutgers faculty at the Eagleton Institute of Politics from 1966 until his death, Professor Rosenthal served as director of the...
Alumnus Discusses Iowa Health and Wellness Plan
Bloustein alumnus Aaron Todd MPP ’07 recently played a key role in the expansion of Medicaid in Iowa. He was the lead negotiator for the Iowa State Senate as the two Houses of the Iowa legislature hammered out an innovative program — the Iowa Health and Wellness...
Student project proposal seeks to reconnect Newark’s Ironbound to its port
Earlier this year, Bloustein MCRP students Michael Lawson, Aimee Jefferson, and Pritpal Bamhrah participated in the AECOM Urban Frontiers International Design Competition, which sought integrated design, planning, environmental restoration and engineering responses...
Sustainable Raritan River Initiative presents outstanding achievement awards
The Sustainable Raritan River Initiative (SRRI) at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University recently announced the recipients of the annual outstanding achievement awards at the fifth annual Sustainable Raritan River...
NJ League of Municipalities Educational Foundation to present forum on reinventing NJ’s suburban office market
New Jersey experienced one of the greatest suburban office building booms in history during the 1980s. Our globally recognized core economic specialization was automobile-dependent suburban office campuses, the nation’s cutting-edge growth model at the time. But,...
Pucher sees Vancouver as a continental leader in cycling
Rutgers University professor John Pucher’s eyes light up when talking about the increasing popularity of cycling among North American commuters. The 62-year-old author and civic transportation expert has studied commuting infrastructure in cities around the world and...
Bloustein School, Cushman and Wakefield to host “Future of N.J.’s Suburban Office Campuses,” June 18
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. and the Bloustein School will host “The Future of New Jersey’s Suburban Office Campuses,” a program for regional investors and developers, on Tuesday, June 18. The program will focus on opportunities to create interactive,...
Bloustein School, Louis Berger Group announce 2013-14 Fellows
The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and The Louis Berger Group, Inc. (Louis Berger) have announced the selection of the Louis Berger Graduate Fellows for the 2013-14 academic year. The new...
Rutgers’ Heldrich Center for Workforce Development wins national policy impact award
The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) has presented its 2013 National Policy Impact Award to the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, for its groundbreaking Work Trends survey series exploring the devastating...