The faculty and students of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning are actively engaged in applied professional projects and scholarly research in Florida, nationally, and internationally. The members of the faculty conduct research and carry out service that contributes to a better understanding and shaping of resilient communities and ecosystems to promote human capabilities, social justice, sustainable livelihoods, and community health and safety.
Our department’s Mark and Marianne Barneby Planning and Development Lab is widely recognized for our applied student and faculty projects.
Florida Planning and Development Lab, directed by our Planner-in-Residence, serves as an important outreach vehicle through which our faculty and students engage in planning practice and local communities through student studio projects and applied faculty research. We encourage you to visit the Mark and Marianne Barneby Planning and Development Lab webpage to see the exciting, award-winning applied planning work done by our students and faculty.
Our department’s faculty members are widely recognized for their research in the following areas:
- Neighborhood and Community Development (McSorley, Kinahan, Holmes)
- Environmental Planning (Butler, Holmes, Coutts)
- Transportation Planning (Duncan, Siddiq, Felkner)
- Economic Development (Echavarria, Kinahan)
- International and Comparative Planning (Siddiq, Echavarria, Felkner)
- Healthy and Active Communities (Coutts, Holmes, McSorley, Duncan)
- Urban Science and Spatial Analytics (Sachdeva, Siddiq)
- Historic Preservation (Kinahan)
- Participatory Planning and Collaborative Governance (Butler, Holmes, McSorley)
- Professional Planning Practice and Institutions (McSorley, Holmes, Butler, Echavarria)
- Housing Policy (Kinahan, Echavarria)
Recent faculty publications are listed on individual faculty webpages and select published papers can be found through the FSU Library’s Diginole document repository.
The Department’s students are recognized for the high-quality doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, master’s papers, and client projects they produce. You can find recent doctoral dissertations and master’s theses at the FSU library’s electronic theses and dissertations website. Master’s papers, client projects, and studio projects may be found by clicking the appropriate link.