The Gibbs College Regional + City Planning Department’s second Kuhlman lecture featuring Dr. Joel Mendez of the University of Kansas is now available on YouTube! The talk was cosponsored by the RCPL department, the OU Center for Peace and Development, and the OU Center for Social Justice.
During the lecture, titled “Accessibility and Opportunity for All? An Evaluation of Industry Specific Employment Change in New Transit Service Areas,” Dr. Mendez shared about transit service areas, impacts on employment, and implications for economic and social justice.
Watch the lecture below!
The University of Oklahoma College of Architecture is proud to announce that Model Schools in the Model City, authored by Director of the Institute for Quality Communities, Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., has been named one of ten finalists for the 2026 ASALH Book Prize for Best New Book in African American History and Culture.
This semester, students in the LA 5535 Studio: Ecological Planning and Design, led by Prof. Afsana Sharmin, took on an ambitious hypothetical project to redesign key parts of the OU campus. Their mission: to tackle the critical real-world challenge of stormwater management through innovative green design.
Petya Stefanoff, Chair of the Educational Committee with the American Planning Association, Oklahoma Chapter (APA-OK) and Gibbs College PhD candidate, has developed a new training program for local government officials. The program, focused on land use, zoning principles, and land development, recently certified its first graduates with Certified Citizen Planner status.
