School of City & Regional Planning
The School of City and Regional Planning is dedicated to crafting communities that are sustainable, just, resilient, healthy, and inclusive through world-class education and cutting-edge research.
Meet the Expert: Brian Stone
Featured in the New NOVA Documentary 'Weathering the Future'
When cities across the US want to know how to better protect their citizens during heatwaves and rolling blackouts, they turn to Brian Stone. A leading expert in urban environmental planning and design, he regularly contributes to national news coverage of rising summer temperatures and heat's effect on cities.
As a featured expert in NOVA's new documentary Weathering the Future, Stone discusses how weather patterns that used to govern life in cities are now shifting, and ways communities can adapt. The documentary airs on PBS beginning April 12, 2023, at 9:00 p.m. EST.
School of City and Regional Planning Partners With WUC
The School of City and Regional Planning (SCaRP) has entered a partnership with the World Urban Campaign (WUC) to promote healthy, green, inclusive urban change. UN-Habitat, which is the UN focal point for sustainable urbanization and human settlements, coordinates WUC to help achieve the urban dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Urban Research: Smart City Design, Global Sustainability
Georgia Tech offers enormous capacity to develop education, research
Inspired by Perry Yang’s urban research, the Smart Cities Systems Design panel discussed ways city design and technology can give communities a more sustainable, resilient, and socially inclusive future. Future city development is becoming much more data-driven and tied to human experiences. “Unlike the internet [era], a tabula rasa of virtual reality, the new era of internet of things creates a paradigm of placemaking, integrating the physical and digital world.”
Chair Gulsah Akar Weighs In on Turkey-Syria Earthquake
Throughout the Institute, faculty with ties to the region and earthquake research are closely monitoring the situation. School of City and Regional Planning Chair Gulsah Akar has close personal and professional ties to Turkey. She and School of Building Construction Chair Ece Erdogmus are partnering with colleagues in Turkey who are already gathering data from the disaster zone. Together, Erdogmus and Akar will work to help develop a monitoring and rebuilding plan for the region.
