Taubman College Urban Planning Students Travel to Pittsburgh, Explore Planning Profession
The Urban Planning department’s annual Expanded Horizons trip took place September 16-20, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The five-day program featured visits to large private firms, advocacy groups, non-profits, and the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh.
The Expanded Horizons program is designed to engage Master of Urban Planning students with planning professionals, neighborhood associations, urban designers and architects. The program is an intensive, on-site field study aimed at exposure and understanding of the planning profession.
Visits included Strada LLC and Perkins Eastman, both multidisciplinary design firms, among other firms and sites. Students also had the chance to view the projects of non-profit organizations including the Green Building Alliance.
Since its inception in 1989, Expanded Horizons has traveled to a number of cities in the U.S. and Canada, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Toronto.
For more information on Expanded Horizons and past trips, visit: https://taubmancollege.umich.edu/urbanplanning/travel-abroad/expanded-horizons-travel-course
