Join the Division of Regional and City Planning for their 2021 Planning Office tour on Friday, September 24th from 12-2pm. The tour will be on Zoom. Attendees will be able to chat with organizations involved in planning in Oklahoma, meet planning professionals, and learn about the diversity of planning and planning organizations.
Featured organizations include Sofola and Associates, Progress OKC, the Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City, and the OKC Planning Department. The Gibbs College of Architecture’s Division of Regional and City Planning will be joined by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Center for Social Justice to host this event.
Gibbs College of Architecture is proud to recognize Petya Stefanoff, who is pursuing her doctorate in the Planning, Design & Construction (PDC) program, has been appointed the new role of Director of Community Development for the City of Shawnee, Oklahoma. She joined the city in 2024.
Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., associate professor in the Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Design and director of the Institute for Quality Communities, has received national recognition for her book Model Schools in the Model City. The book has been named a finalist for the 2026 the PROSE Awards.
Gibbs College of Architecture Regional + City Planning Professor of Practice Vanessa Morrison and Associate Professor of Architecture Deborah Richards’ Open Design Collective received top honors at the inaugural BlackSpace Urbanist Collective Studio KIN Pitch Night Competition, held last month in Brooklyn, New York City.
