Regional and City Planning associate professor John Harris recently won the Global Planning Educators Interest Group’s (GPEIG) Best Journal Article Award at the 2019 meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in Greenville, South Carolina.
The peer-reviewed award, sponsored by GPEIG, is given once every two years to an outstanding journal article on planning and development issues in global context. Criteria for the award include: 1) Making a significant scholarly impact in understanding critical issues facing global planning generally; 2) Taking a novel approach towards data collection and/or analysis; 3) Speaking in a unique or uniquely effective way to practitioners.
The award recognizes Harris’s paper “Vulnerable Youth’s Perspectives and Priorities for Informal Settlements: Photovoice Evidence from Lusaka, Zambia” published in 2017 in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.
Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that alumnus Gary Armbruster, FAIA, ALEP was one of five individuals nationally named an "ICON in Education." Learning By Design magazine, in partnership with Tarkett North America.
The Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture mourns the passing of alumnus J. Todd Scott, FAIA, whose career was dedicated to documenting, preserving and reimagining historic architecture across the country.
The Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture announces John Harris as Associate Dean for Research ad interim, effective Aug. 25, 2026, until the permanent position is filled.
