This page features virtual resources that will allow you to learn more about the program’s curriculum and connect with faculty and current students.
If you have any additional questions about the event or application process, please contact arch_admissions@columbia.edu
Monday, October 18
10:00AM: Dean’s Welcome and Student-led Virtual Tour
With Dean Amale Andraos
3:00PM: Introduction to the Avery Library With Hannah Bennett, Director, and Ph.D. student Charlette Caldwell
Tuesday, October 19
1:15PM: LIPS: Lecture by Willow Lung-Amam more info
7:00PM: M.S. Urban Planning Curriculum Overview
Time tbd: Student Q&A
The Lectures in Planning Series (LiPS) is an annual series of talks organized by the Urban Planning Program. View the calendar of Fall 2021 LiPS events here.
Visit the online 2021 End of Year Show to see student work from urban planning studios and courses as well as theses from Class of 2021 MSUP graduates.
You can also browse the digital archive for work associated by studio and instructor and read summaries of MSUP theses here.
Public Works for a Green New Deal
During the Fall 2019 semester, two urban planning courses were offered as part of a school-wide initiative focusing on the social, technical, and political contours of the ambitious—but still largely undefined—proposal known as the Green New Deal (GND). Read about the courses below and visit the Public Works Page to learn more.
Planning and the Green New Deal: A Practicum
Faculty: Ariella Maron, Douglas Woodward
This course engaged the proposed Green New Deal from an urban planning perspective, investigating its political bases, technical feasibility, implementation strategy, and planning and land use impacts. The course approach concentrated on the socio-technical aspects of the GND as opposed to strictly technical responses to climate change, to mirror the focus of the proposed legislation itself.
Resilient Urban Planning Practicum: A Green New Deal for Appalachia
Faculty: Thaddeus Pawlowski
This course explored urban planning practice through the lens of resilience. It focused on emerging approaches and strategies to climate adaptation in the built environment, and integrating ecological imperatives and social justice into next century forms of infrastructure.
This series of talks, organized by the M.S.UP throughout the year, brings together leading experts across the field to discuss today’s most pressing topics.
Visit the Fall 2021 LiPS playlist on YouTube.
The Urban Planning Program offers career development resources to help students take advantage of our location in New York City and discover unmatched opportunities for jobs and internships. Career services programming includes alumni panels, workshops, visits to select public planning agencies and private consulting firms, and meeting with employers one-on-one at the Career Fair. The program connects students to alumni through the annual speed-networking event and a year-long mentorship program.
A dedicated career services advisor provides one-on-one coaching and advisement to help students set and reach their employment goals. Individualized employment strategies and practical training and assistance include basic job search techniques, résumé and cover letter preparation, interviewing skills, and salary negotiation. To ensure students have access to a variety of employment resources, we keep a database of employment possibilities, career guidance references, employment literature, and industry knowledge.
GSAPP maintains a job board to advertise open full-time, part-time, internship, and fellowship positions. In addition, a weekly updates newsletter distributed by the program advertises openings, upcoming conferences, and other professional development opportunities.
To see graduate placement data for the past 5 years, visit our career services page employer data tab and filter by program. Hover over the number next to M.S. Urban Planning to see our program’s data only.
This past spring, Untapped New York – co-founded by Alumni Board Member Michelle Young (‘12 MS UP) – collaborated with Columbia GSAPP to create a mini-series of podcast episodes designed to welcome incoming students to the GSAPP family.
Throughout the series, we explore architecturally interesting and historic New York City neighborhoods that house Columbia University’s campus and surrounding communities.
Also check out their feature in Columbia Magazine Welcome to Manhattanville published in Spring 2019.
