2024 Kick-Off
The Community and Regional Planning program and the SPAN hosted the 2024 Kick-Off event on September 4, 2024, at the Walter G. Fields III Planning Lab.
News Archives
Making difference in the community: Cooper Hilbert’s summer internship
ECU News Service featured a story, Students research broadband access for rural, low-income eastern North Carolina communities, including Cooper Hilbert's summer internship experiences with HarvestBeam, Inc., a broadband startup company to...
My Seoul Soul: Study abroad reflection
Story by Kylie Tannenbaum, 2024 Kylie Tannenbaum is a graduate student pursuing an M.S. in Planning and Development. She is a recipient of the 2024 Thomas W. Rivers Foreign Exchange...
2024 Summer Study Abroad
Sustainable Urbanism in South Korea May 13, 2024 - May 27, 2024 Six Planning students (three undergraduates and three graduate students) joined the Sustainable Urbanism in South Korea Summer Study...
The Big Ending
Eight BS in Community and Regional Planning program students successfully presented their capstone practicum projects from PLAN4099: Planning Practicum (instructor: Prof. Merrill Flood, Planner-in-Residence) on April 30, 2024, at ECU’s...
Pirates in Minneapolis
The Student Planners Action Network (SPAN) raised over $6,000 to sponsor nine students to attend the National American Planning Association Conference (NPC24) in Minneapolis between April 13-16, 2024. This marks...
Commemorate Jane Jacobs: Sharing unspoken local stories
Jane Jacobs Walks are free, self-organized walks led by committed citizens sharing their knowledge about and love for places. Jane Jacobs’s ten big ideas have been promoted by planners for maintaining livable and...
2024 Planning Distinguished Alumni Award
The ECU Planning Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes the outstanding contributions of graduates from the ECU Community and Regional Planning Program. It recognizes alumni for their outstanding achievements to the planning...
Planning Lab Dedication
The Walter G. Fields III Planning Lab room dedication ceremony was held on March 22, 2024. Brewster Building D-209 was named after Walter G. Fields, III, a donor who established...
Planning Classes took a Field Trip to Goldsboro, NC.
The Community and Regional Planning program took students for a field trip to Goldsboro, NC—a town with one of the most successful Main Street programs in North Carolina. The NC Main...