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TSUSP Adjunct Faculty Member Ellen Shoshkes has announced the publication of her book — Jaqueline Tyrwhitt: A Transnational Life in Urban Planning and Design — by Ashgate. Jaqueline Tyrwhitt’s life story is truly a gap in the planning and urban design literature: while largely unacknowledged, she played a central role in twentieth-century design history.  A full description is available here. Congratulations Ellen!

Want to see how two TSUSP professors, Ethan Seltzer and Lisa Bates, weigh in on the issue of apartments without parking? You can read their opinion piece here in a recent issue of The Oregonian! 

Professor Jenny Liu  spoke today on OPB's Think Out Loud about carbon taxing here in Oregon. Listen to it here! 

Two TSUSP professors, Jason Jurjevich and Greg Schrock, appeared in a Portland State Magazine article
 discussing their exploration into the realities of the IFC show Portlandia.  Read it in full here! 

MURP Workshop project, ‘Connect Cascade Locks: A Recreational Trails Plan for Economic Development,’--- slated to receive the upcoming 2013 AICP Student Project Award---appeared in a Hood River News article this week! Click here to read it in full. 

Congratulations to TSUSP students Michael Ahillen, Sarah Bronstein, Ellen Dorsey, Danielle Fuchs, Sara Morrissey, and Chloe Ritter, and faculty members Ethan Seltzer and Gil Kelley! Their project, Connect Cascade Locks: A Recreational Trails Plan for Economic Development was chosen for the 2013 AICP Student Project Award for Application of the Planning Process by the American Institute of Certified Planners. The award will be presented at the APA/AICP Annual Business Meeting and Leadership Honors program in Chicago, April 16th 2013. (Full project details can be found here). 

Competing in a Changing World:  This year's Bonner Equity Forum's keynote speaker, Tom Murphy, is now online! Tom Murphy is a Senior Resident Fellow and Klingbeil Family Chair for Urban Development at the Urban Land Institute. Murphy is best known nationally for the three terms he served as the mayor of Pittsburgh, from 1994 through 2005. He initiated a public-private partnership strategy that leveraged more than $4.5 billion in economic development in Pittsburgh. On November 8th, 2012, he presented his speech: "Competing in a Changing World-Building a 21st Century City." Watch it now! 

The Urban Sustainability Accelerator (USA) at Portland State University is now operational and looking to form partnerships with jurisdictions and non-profits organizations. The USA helps mid-sized and smaller urban areas implement sustainability projects, to move their proposals from a concept, a plan policy or an agenda item, to reality. Visit the USA website here.

TSUSP Professors Carl Abbott and Ethan Seltzer cowrote a fascinating opinion piece in the Oregonian in October, discussing the region's history of attracting talent and entrepreneurship.  Read their commentary here!

Urban Studies Ph.D. student, Donna Sinclair, has been awarded the Gray Towers fellowship of the Forest History Society for work on her dissertation about the incorporation of women and minorities into the USDA Forest Service. It provides a four week residency at Gray Towers, the Pennsylvania estate of Gifford Pinchot.  She will have time to write, give a public talk, interview people in the Forest Service civil rights department in DC, and meet members of the Pinchot family.  Congratulations, Donna!

Recent CityWise lecturers and TSUSP faculty members, Greg Schrock and Jason Jurjevich, have been making waves in the news!  Their recently-released reports (which you can read here and here) address the Portlandia-inspired question, "is Portland really the place where young people go to retire?"  Their research was covered in news features on OPB's Morning Edition, the Portland Tribune (a front page article which also features current Urban Studies Ph.D. student, Dillon Mahmoudi), the Oregonian, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Yahoo, KOIN News 6, and the Portland Mercury. 

TSUSP Professor and Director of the Center for Transportation Studies, Jennifer Dill, extols the myriad virtues of Portland metropolitan region public transportation in a recent USA Today article.

Chet Orloff, Adj. Professor of Urban Studies, has been co-chairing the City of Portland's Central City 2035 Plan for the Bureau of Planning & Sustainability. The draft framework plan has just been released for public review.  He also recently served on the Portland Development Commission's selection committee for the redevelopment of Centennial Mills.  Chet continues his work developing the Museum of the City, PSU's online museum of cities.

This summer, a group of alumni, faculty, and faculty emeriti gathered together for evening of reconnection and celebration.  Read more about it and check out the photos here!

TSUSP Faculty is on your radio!

Professor Sy Adler was recently interviewed on NPR about light rail development in Los Angeles.  Listen to the segment (or read  the transcript) here.

Professor Jason Jurjevich spoke on OPB about the rising rate of nonmarried partner households in Oregon. Catch his segment (a great listen regarding Oregon's First Lady, Cylvia Hayes) here.

The American Planning Association just released data on AICP (certification) exam attempt and pass rates by school (2004-2011).  PSU grads had a 95% pass rate on the AICP exams, 2nd in the second quartile (based on number of graduates sitting for the exam)!

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