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PLANNING HAS AN obligation to be visionary. It has to be practical and useful, but it also has to be out there on the edge imagining a future. We provide the tools, techniques, and strategies you will need to design more equitable, vibrant, beautiful, and sustainable places.

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Sustainability and design merged — Paul Milstein Hall's green roof is one of the design elements that will contribute to reductions in energy costs.
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Nik Theodore Lecture — Nik Theodore is director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois and an assistant professor in the urban planning and policy program.
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Emma Osore
B.S. Urban and Regional Studies 2009
My time in URS has been marked by extraordinary opportunities of field-based research in Nairobi, New Orleans, New York City, and Washington, DC -- and I will be heading off to Rome next semester.
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