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New Brunswick
Park(ing) Day 2015 reclaims three public locations in New Brunswick with pop-up parklets
For at least one day, New Brunswick had far more than just four sister cities. Friday, September 18, 2015, was the annual Park(ing) Day celebration, where cities across the world take on-street parking spaces and turn them into public parklets. The students of Walk...
Bloustein MCRP candidate Brandon Williams is APTF scholarship recipient
The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) recently announced that Bloustein School Masters in City and Regional Planning (MCRP) student Brandon Williams is the recipient of a 2015 APTF Scholarship. All member organizations of the American Public...
Professor Robert Lake receives teaching excellence awards from NAGS, GSNB
Bloustein School professor and director of the doctoral program Robert Lake was selected as the recipient of 2015 Teaching Excellence Awards from the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) and Rutgers Graduate School-New Brunswick (GSNB). The Northeast...
Bloustein School to host seventh annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference
On Thursday, March 12, 2015, the Bloustein School will host the seventh annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference. The event honors the memory of the late Professor Donald Krueckeberg, who passed away in 2006. Dr. Krueckeberg is remembered as “the bow-tied, bearded,...
Annual Bike/Ped Summit to be held at Bloustein School, Feb. 21
The New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition and the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University will host the Sixth Annual NJ Bike & Walk Summit on Saturday, February 21 from 8:00...
John J. Heldrich, driving force behind New Brunswick’s revitalization, dies at age 88
John J. Heldrich, widely considered one of New Jersey’s top business and civic leaders and widely-recognized as “the heart and driving force” behind the revitalization of the city of New Brunswick, died on Tuesday, October 28. He was 88. He was a 1950 Rutgers...
Rutgers to host inaugural statewide Health Impact Assessment conference, May 2015
The New Jersey Health Impact Collaborative (NJHIC), an effort facilitated by Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy andRutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS), will be hosting a statewide conference “Health Impact...
New Rutgers Regional Report compares population shifts following major economic changes
Twelve of 27 suburban counties – over 44 percent – lost population post-Great Recession, while regional core experiences strong increase A new Rutgers Regional Report, “The Receding Metropolitan Perimeter: A New Postsuburban Demographic Normal,” authored by James W....
Frank Fish to present EJB’s Candeub Memorial Lecture in Planning
Frank Fish, FAICP, principal with BFJ Planning, will present the Bloustein School’s annual Isadore Candeub Memorial Lecture in Planning on Thursday, October 9, at 4:00 p.m.. This year’s lecture will be “How Planning has Changed in the 21st Century: Adapting to Shifts...