Our alumni connections continue to be a great strength of the Urban Planning program at GSAPP. From mentorships to panels to guidance through internships and early career and first jobs, your participation in helping us develop the planners and practitioners of the next generation is always appreciated. Your own successes have made us proud.

To help us stay connected, please complete this form by Monday, November 17, to share updates and any news you would like to feature in the Fall Semester-in-Review newsletter, and also to let us know if you are interested in participating in our Fall alumni/student mixer and Spring 2026 programming.

This Fall’s alumni/student networking mixer will be held on Friday, November 21, from 7 pm to 10 pm at Sound and Fury, 141 Lawrence Street in Downtown Brooklyn, an easy connection by subway from all the boroughs. Our mixers have been a great success with both our current student cohort and alumni, and we look forward to seeing you there. Please register using the link below.

We are presenting a special event in this year’s LiPS series. Jake Berman, an urbanist and transportation scholar, will be giving a talk on his new book, The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present and What Might Have Been, on Tuesday, November 18, from 1:15 pm to 2:45 pm in 209 Fayerweather. Alumni are invited to attend the lecture via Zoom.

You may remember that the program went through reaccreditation successfully around 2020. It’s about time for another round, since the maximum accreditation term is seven years. We will be reaching out soon for an alumni survey, as part of the preparation to understand the experience of our graduates since around the last such survey (2019).

Thank you again for the many ways in which you guide and support the work and career opportunities of our students. If you have any suggestions as to how we can better connect with you, or what types of programs you would like to see, please let us know.

We are always happy to visit with alumni when they are visiting campus. Please stop by when you are in the neighborhood.

For more information, please email Douglas Woodward, Associate Director for Professional Development & Practice Urban Planning Program, at dw38@columbia.edu.