![BURP Program Rated a Best Value](/science/departments/urban-regional-planning/images/news/college-values-online-top-degree-programs-2017-500x390.png)
The College Values Online web site has rated SURP’s Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning program as the 12th best value in the country.
![SURP Associate Professor Eric Dumbaugh to Lead Road Safety Project](/science/departments/urban-regional-planning/images/news/dumbaugh.jpg)
FAU will receive $1.5 million in total for the next five years from the US Department of Transportation to co-direct the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety, a National University Transportation Center housed at...
![Special Issue of Housing Policy Debate Edited by John Renne](/science/departments/urban-regional-planning/images/news/housing-policy-debate.jpg)
The latest issue of the journal Housing Policy Debate is a special issue co-edited by SURP’s John Renne, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions in the School of Urban and Regional...
![Bourassa and Hoesli Win Best Paper Prize](/science/departments/urban-regional-planning/images/news/ares-header-cropped.png)
SURP Director Steven Bourassa and co-author Martin Hoesli of the University of Geneva have won the “Innovative Thinking Out of the Box” best paper prize for their paper, “High Frequency House Price Indexes with Scarce...
![SURP Welcomes Dr. Louis Merlin](/science/departments/urban-regional-planning/images/news/merlin-photo-img-0469-cropped-351x390.jpg)
The School of Urban and Regional Planning is pleased to welcome Louis A. Merlin, who is a new Assistant Professor starting with the Fall 2016 semester.
![Bryan McConnell Brings IT Expertise to SURP](/science/departments/urban-regional-planning/images/news/mcconnell-thumb-mg-3138-1024-cropped-880x400.jpg)
The School of Urban and Regional Planning is pleased to welcome Bryan McConnell, MBA, who has been appointed Faculty Research Associate and Computer Systems Analyst.
![Dude, Where’s My Driverless Car? Louis Merlin Discusses Robot Cars](/science/departments/urban-regional-planning/images/news/driverlessposter.jpg)
Louis Merlin, who will join SURP as an assistant professor in August 2016, recently participated in a seminar at the University of Michigan on the ethics of driverless cars.
![Peter Newman Will Speak on “The End of Automobile Dependence” August 9th](/science/departments/urban-regional-planning/images/news/peter-newman-photo-270x390.jpg)
Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Australia, will give a lecture on “The End of Automobile Dependence: How Cities Are Moving Beyond Car-Based Planning” at the Palm Beach Dramaworks Theatre,...
![SURP Director Visits King Saud University](/science/departments/urban-regional-planning/images/news/saudi-arabia-img-2743.jpg)
Dr. Steven Bourassa, Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning, visited the Department of Urban Planning at King Saud University in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in early April 2016.
![New Podcast on Transportation Costs and the Affordability of HUD Housing](/science/departments/urban-regional-planning/images/news/renne-880x400.jpg)
In this podcast, Dr. John Renne, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions in the School of Urban and Regional Planning, along with Shima Hamidi of the University of Texas at Arlington...