Newsroom: College of Architecture and Planning

Jan 31, 2019 by CAP

CoPR was awarded a 2019 Stephen H. Hart Award for Historic Preservation for the documentation of prehistoric architecture at Lowry Pueblo.

Sep 17, 2018 by CAP

Student designs for the Airstream trailer of the future for Professor of Architecture Keith Loftin’s Studio V in fall 2016 were published in Airstream Life in the Spring 2017 issue.

Sep 17, 2018 by CAP

Master of Architecture students in the Colorado Building Workshop course in fall 2016 taught by Assistant Professor of Architecture Rick Sommerfeld were part of the redesign and build-out of a new exhibition space at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, in a partnership between CU Denver and Denver Arts & Venues.

Sep 17, 2018 by CAP

In fall 2016, students worked with Ken Schroeppel, assistant professor clinical teaching track of urban and regional planning, on walkability assessments of Denver neighborhoods in partnership with WalkDenver​.

Sep 17, 2018 by CAP

Four second-year Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) students were selected for the 2018 Etkin Johnson ULI Colorado Student Scholarship Program.

Sep 17, 2018 by CAP

Master of Urban and Regional Planning students and an alumna were honored at the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Colorado’s 2017 Awards Luncheon. Molly Veldkamp, AICP (MURP 2008), Senior Associate at Fox Tuttle Hernandez Transportation Group, was awarded Member of the Year.

Sep 17, 2018 by CAP

Our students take on creative challenges! The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) University of Colorado Denver Chapter partnered with the City of Denver Department of Public Works on a competition to create designs for new fixed public restrooms.

Sep 17, 2018 by CAP

Three students in the Transit Planning course taught by Carrie Makarewicz, assistant professor of urban and regional planning, volunteered at the first annual “Transportation Girl” event on September 7, 2017, representing the field of transportation planning.

Sep 17, 2018 by CAP

Researchers have determined many of the factors that make neighborhoods susceptible to gentrification, but we know less about why some gentrification-susceptible neighborhoods gentrify and others do not.Some studies claim that internal neighborhood features such as historic housing stock are the most powerful determinants of gentrification,whereas other studies argue that a lack of strong affordable housing policies is the primary driver of neighborhood change. In this article, we move beyond a focus on singular determinants to recognize the interplay between these variables. We develop a socioecological model of gentrification in which we characterize neighborhood change as shaped by nested layers we categorize as people (e.g., demographics), place (e.g., built environment), and policy (e.g., housing programs). We then test the model in the five largest urban regions in the United States to begin to determine which variables within the people, place, and policy layers best predict whether a neighborhood will gentrify.

Sep 17, 2018