Impacting Urban Futures

DAAPworks School of Planning
Impacting Urban Futures
plan master in community planning
Urban Futures
Our Collective Future Home
The Spring 2025 dual MCP and MLA capstone leans on three formative initiatives: the Trend Reports for Planners released annually by the American Planning Association's (APA); the Climate Action Plan recently released by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA); and the Sustainable Development Goals released by the United Nations (UN). These three documents represent guidelines that all planners and designers must consider, particularly as they enter into practice in their respective professions. Guided by these three documents and the values embedded within, this year’s capstone focuses on developing innovative, future-oriented, and ‘out-of-the-box thinking’ solutions on how to address emerging planning and design challenges. Students are asked to include baseline information and how their solutions impact those baselines. In brief, the capstone project theme is Urban Futures – our collective future home.
