Dr. Jeffrey Featherstone, Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities at Temple University, led an international team of city planners to explore and recommend revitalization efforts in the West Bank of the Jordan River. He also provided technical assistance to a second team heading to the Gaza Strip.
Temple is the first university in the country to receive a brownfields planning grant form the Environmental Protection Agency.
In March and April, the Center for Sustainable Communities and its community partners will be seeking the direct input of Philadelphia residents during public design workshops to help envision Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) plans for three locations
Temple's Center for Sustainable Communities is using a $200,000 grant to develop recommendations for effectively implementing “Transportation Demand Management” policies along the Route 422 corridor.
In 2014, the Center for Sustainable Communities has received grants totaling more than $2.65 million to research and help implement a variety of beneficial projects.
The Center for Sustainable Communities will soon begin a project to develop Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) plans for three locations in the Delaware Direct and Tookany/Tacony-Frankford watersheds, thanks to a $60,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Community and Regional Planning students presented their findings of a comprehensive study of Norristown's food systems to municipal officials and civic leaders.
From the outset, Jiting Deng, who will graduate this month with a master’s degree in Community and Regional Planning, embraced the Temple experience just as much as Temple has embraced her.
Matt Smith was the fourth semi-finalist for the Presidential Management Fellows program from Temple’s Community and Regional Planning (CRP) program in four years and the third finalist during the same time frame — an almost unheard of accomplishment among planning programs in the country.
Before Jillian Brainard came to Temple University, she spent a few years with the CIA. In this case, however, her stock in trade was entrees, not espionage. Her career has since taken a 90-degree turn into community planning.
