UMass Boston Department of Urban Planning and Community Development

The Department of Urban Planning and Community Development is committed to undertaking research examining the structural causes of uneven and unsustainable patterns of development increasingly characterizing the Boston Region while preparing the next generation of inspired urban planners and community development professionals committed to working with others to cooperatively build healthy, vibrant, sustainable, resilient, democratic, anti-racist and just neighborhoods, towns and cities in our region and beyond through redistributive policies/plans and participatory planning and design methods.