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MURP Students Present at Regional APA Gathering

MURP Students Present at APA
November 05, 2019

Planning Presentations on Home Turf

Two groups of Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) students presented their work at the 2019 Annual Conference Alabama and Mississippi Chapters of the American Planning Association on October 16-18 in Von Braun Center, Huntsville, Ala.

The first group of students presented “Land Use, Streetscape, and Neighborhood Relinkage: The Assessment of Two Huntsville Corridors” on the first day of the conference. Their presentation was based on their work of the Urban Planning Studio supervised by Dr. Joyce Ann Pressley. The second group of students presented work focusing on “Using an Investment Prospectus to Promote Development Initiatives in Opportunity Zones” on the second day of the conference. Their presentation was based on work of the Urban Planning Studio under the supervision of Dr. Jordan Yin.

The students were also exposed to the network of planning discipline through presentation sessions and connected with alumni of the AAMU planning programs at the conference.