Each year, graduating students in Portland State’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning program produce community-based applied planning projects for Portland and other local communities. This year’s projects are now available online in PDXScholar.
A new MURP project focuses on Portland’s Lents neighborhood.
Planning projects require the development and evaluation of alternatives and include recommendations for courses of action. They are problem-centered and geographically-focused, and incorporate innovative public involvement efforts.
The six new projects, created by teams of four to six students, cover a range of topics:
- Affordable housing in Portland and Washington County
- Walkability in Tigard
- Livability and planning in the Portland neighborhood of Lents
- A community park in Hood River
- Transportation at night and early morning to Oregon Health & Science University
Workshop projects have won an impressive fifteen state and six national awards in the past twenty years for the creative problem-solving evident in the products.
Learn more about MURP projects.