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  • Students to teach city planning skills to high schoolers this fall
    August 18, 2021 by

    Local high school students will soon be learning about urban planning, thanks to a grant provided by Ball State University Discovery Group. Saturday workshops are scheduled this fall semester for Muncie area high school students at the Urban Planning storefront studio at the Muncie Mall.   The workshop, called UrbanPlan, is a scenario-based engaged workshop developed […]

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  • Chicagoland Internship Pairs Senior with MURP Grad
    August 4, 2021 by

    BY WILL SNYDER, senior My name is Will Snyder, and this summer, I am an economic development intern with the Village of Wheeling, Ill. My work primarily focuses on business development within Wheeling’s three TIF districts. I help market our restaurant and retail build-out grant to new businesses choosing to locate in our TIFs, call […]

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  • Internship Leads to Job Offer for December Grad
    August 4, 2021 by

    BY HANNAH JONES, senior My name is Hannah Jones, and I am the planning intern for the City of Shelbyville, Indiana. I work with BSU planning alumnus Adam Rude, director of the department. The City of Shelbyville is rapidly growing and is undergoing many great changes, from an influx of new housing to redeveloping the […]

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  • CapAsia Traffic Inspires U.S. Transportation Planner
    July 20, 2021 by

    The CapAsia field studies program will resume in spring 2022. In preparation, we’ve asked students from past CapAsia trips — there have been ten in all! — to reflect on their experiences. By ANTON SCHAUERTE, CapAsia X One reason I wanted to go on CapAsia was because I’d previously watched a YouTube video called “How […]

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  • Book documents construction of CAP: Indy sign
    April 22, 2021 by

    Patrick Ward was off campus working at an internship and searching for an elective when a class called CAP:Indy Sign caught his attention. Mainly because he had no idea what the title meant. Had he been in the building, he couldn’t have missed the 17-foot sign being built in the CAP atrium. As it was, […]

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  • Local governance in a post-pandemic environment
    March 18, 2021 by

    Carolyn Coleman will wrap up the 2020-2021 CAP lecture series with a look at how cities will move forward in a post-pandemic world. The virtual lecture will be at 4 p.m. Monday, April 12. Coleman, who holds a law degree from Indiana University, served as deputy mayor of Indianapolis from 2000-2005 where she focused on […]

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  • Milwaukee INVESTS economic development model topic of lecture
    March 2, 2021 by

    The Ball State College of Architecture and Planning invites you to a virtual lecture by Juli Kaufmann at 4 p.m. March 22. Kaufmann is president of Fix Development, an award-winning Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based commercial real estate company. Her topic is Milwaukee INVESTS, an economic development model that uses commercial real estate development as a vehicle for transformation. […]

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  • 5 Landon Bone Baker Architects offer presentation March 8
    March 2, 2021 by

    Join us for a lively presentation by one of CAP’s most successful alumni-owned firms at 4 p.m. Monday, March 8. The presentation by Landon Bone Baker Architects of Chicago will feature five CAP grads from the Department of Architecture. It’s more than architecture driving this award-winning firm: Community building, affordable housing, and neighborhood planning are […]

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  • Alumnus Lourenzo Giple shares advice for students
    February 25, 2021 by

    Why is it important to expand the American narrative to include the accomplishments and stories of Black Americans? This question implies that they are different. We tend to forget that Black history is American history, and it is a particularly important part of American history. But besides that; representation, perspective, and the ability to see […]

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  • Pete Fritz named FAICP
    February 25, 2021 by

    Congratulations to LA grad Pete Fritz who has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Fritz, FAICP, PLA, joins an elite group of long-time AICP members recognized for “excellence in professional practice, teaching and mentoring, research, and community service and leadership.”  His wife, K.K. Gerhart-Fritz, is also a fellow and a […]

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