Working in collaboration with the City of Webster City Parks & Recreation Department, graduate students in the School of Urban & Regional Planning completed a Parks & Recreation Master Plan for Webster City that promotes appropriate land use, active lifestyles, equity, accessibility, environmental protection, and tourism. For a town of its size, Webster City (pop. […]
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Clinton Economic Development Plan
As part of their capstone project, second-year graduate students from the School of Urban & Regional Planning created an economic development plan for the City of Clinton and surrounding micropolitan area. The City of Clinton was settled as a lumber community and grew into a thriving manufacturing center. Jobs after high school were easy to […]
Community Storytelling Project – Grant Wood Loop
Students from a variety of disciplines taking Community Development in the Upper Midwest produced videos that tell stories from the Grant Wood Loop, located in eastern Iowa, through their own experiences in the region and interviews with local residents. In Spring 2018, the University of Iowa School of Urban and Regional Planning, in cooperation with the Iowa […]
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