Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside U Michigan  U Michigan News Roosevelt Vanguard dream.DETROIT Upcoming Events Student reading the Roosevelt Review during the cocktail reception at GW's launch event Announcements Africa Policy Conference @ UNC Perfect Presidential Platform crafted @ UGA Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More National Press Chronicle of Higher Education The Nation LA Times New York Times > More "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." — Franklin Roosevelt    Urban Policy and Community Development > Roosevelt Home > U Michigan > Urban Planning and Community Develoment Updated 1/15/2008 URBAN PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT The center for Urban Planning and Community Development aims to address issues of urban development from a creative perspective.  The first part of the semester will focus on Detroit, in response to the dream.DETROIT event held last semester, and then will expand to include other urban landscapes. As a new center we will develop new methods to approaching urban planning and community development which will expand as the center grows  For more information, please contact Lainie K Kokas Meetings: Thurs. 6pm DANA Commons Group members: Lainie K Kokas Michael D Bader Elizabeth R Georgoff Kelly A Kucharski Christine N Yoon   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 1527 New Hampshire Avenue NW, 4th Floor / Washington, DC 20036 || Fax: (202) 483-2657