Using its city as a teaching lab, a school helps rebuild it, too

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education looks at the role the UB School of Architecture and Planning has played in Buffalo’s renaissance, helping to rebuild Buffalo as well as using it as a teaching lab. The article notes that UB architecture and planning faculty members and students have been deeply involved in projects as modest as community gardens, as sweeping as regional economic development plans and as detailed as overhauling local building and zoning codes, and interviews Robert G. Shibley, dean of the school, as well as a number of faculty members. “Our research profile as a School of Architecture and Planning has gone up and up with a body of research that uses this region as its laboratory,” Shibley said.

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http://chronicle.com/article/Using-Its-City-as-a-Teaching/234096