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Imagining Alternative Futures for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal

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Two GCPE Students Selected as Fund for the City of New York Community Planning Fellows

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GCPE Faculty Selected As NYC Public Artist in Residence

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Three GCPE Students Awarded 2025-2026 ANHD Community Development Graduate Fellowships

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GCPE Student Receives APA Foundation Diversity Scholarship

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Creative Solutions for a Changing Climate

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Incoming Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment Academic Directors 

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Pratt Names Courtney Knapp New Chair of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

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SoA Faculty Eve Baron and Tara Duvivier Publish “Making the Most out of Racial Equality Reports”

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Mapping Microclimates

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HyperLocal Insights: Fulbright Program Connects Urbanists from Prague and NYC

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Alumni Spotlight: Saba Mahmood (UCP ‘24) Brings Community and Climate Resilience Together as an FCNY Fellow

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Illuminating a History of Action

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Flooding Issue In NYC? Rooftop Gardens For Bus Stops To The Rescue!

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Studio: Collaborative Futures at Lefferts Historic House

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Perspective: Ahmad Shaibani, MS City and Regional Planning ’17

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Amplifying an Unsung Site of Queer History on Staten Island

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Empowering Coastal Communities in a Future of Rising Shorelines

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Putting the Community First in Planning for a Brooklyn Neighborhood’s Future

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A “slice” of Harrison Atelier’s Pollinators Pavilion at the Bee Conservancy on Governors Island (photo by Adam Elstein)

School of Architecture Advocates for Climate Education with Pavilions & Projects on Governors Island

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Reimagining Place Together: Taconic Fellows and Rockaway Residents Envision Landfill’s Future

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Brooklyn Historical Society Opens Ronald Shiffman Collection on the Pratt Center

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Pratt Summer Abroad: Dispatch from Tokyo II

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