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Trust in Charitable OrganizationsPublic confidence in charitable organizations such as the Red Cross and United Way is essential to a high performing nonprofit or charitable sector. Indeed, confidence affects almost everything that matters to the future of the sector, especially the …
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Student Groups… Whether you’re curious about food policy, health equity, urban planning, or inclusive leadership, there’s a student … economics, criminal justice, social innovation, urban planning, philanthropy, consulting, and more. See all …
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Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh… money. One year later, for active mobile banking users, urban-to-rural remittances increased by 26 percent of the … additional migrants, and consumed more in the lean season. Urban migrants experienced less poverty and saved more but …
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Residential Mobility and the Reproduction of Unequal Neighborhoods… way, the degree of racial and ethnic inequality in urban America. Two empirical observations form the basis of … is that residential mobility typically serves to reproduce urban inequality instead of disrupting it. The second is that urban inequality is resilient: even when individuals or …
Capstone Projects
William F. Ryan Community Health CenterWilliam F. Ryan Community Health Center receives grants from the federal, state, and local government agencies to conduct HIV counseling, testing, and referral services in New York City. The Center is authorized to conduct waived testing, which is …
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Executive Master of Public Administration… scholars in a variety of disciplines—public service, urban planning, public administration, and more Career …
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WORLD CITIES PROJECT… Our studies focus on three substantive areas: 1) urban aging; 2) emergency preparedness; and 3) the health care system. Urban aging : WCP seeks to assist nations and municipalities … for persons aged 65 years and older in the four largest urban metropolises within countries belonging to the …
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Climate Policy and Politics… rise, heat waves, and water scarcity, with a focus on how urban areas are tackling these threats. Throughout the …
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Dean's Council… housing agency in the country. She began her career at the Urban Institute, where she conducted research on public … and neighborhood change. Guernsey holds a master’s of urban planning degree from New York University’s Wagner … funds allocated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Prior to being tapped to lead GOSR, …
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Kristen Tauber… research department. Her research interests are urban economics and housing policy, with particular interest …
Alumni In Action
Elizabeth Guernsey… schools, I knew I wanted to be in a program located in an urban environment where students and faculty are encouraged … for me was how the institution sees itself as part of the urban fabric. How did being in New York impact your …
Capstone Projects
ASSESSING AN ORGANIZATION’S ROLE IN MOVEMENT-BUILDINGTakeRoot Justice (TRJ) leverages legal and policy expertise to help community-driven movements dismantle systems of racial, economic, and social oppression. TRJ engaged a Capstone team to evaluate its role in community campaign advancement and ensure that …
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Alumni Spotlight: Paula Sevilla Núñez (MUP 2019)… in our societies. I decided to pursue the Masters of Urban Planning at Wagner because I was attracted to the power of cities and the urban landscape to shape the way we experience our … urbanization and cities, and also collaborated with other urban-focused organizations like the NYU Marron Institute of …
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Time Thieves: A New Computer-Driven Traffic Model Reveals the “Time Costs” of Traffic… In some respects, the story of the first century of urban traffic was one futile effort after another to stop … this figure can lead to a radically new perspective on urban traffic and put society on a path to fixing it once and …
Capstone Projects
State Gas Tax Revenues and Roadway Performance… roadway using three measures of performance: fatalities, urban congestion and pavement roughness. The Capstone team … tax revenues have a positive relationship with fatalities, urban congestion, and pavement roughness. However, other … revenue have an inverse relationship with fatalities and urban congestion and a positive relationship with pavement …
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Student Spotlight: Bryan Matthew (MPA-PNP 2025)Bryan Matthew (MPA-PNP 2025), chair, Wagner Black Student Association (BSA) Can you share a bit about yourself and what inspired you to attend a school of public service? I am from Piscataway, New Jersey, and I am a proud first-generation college student. …
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Sixteen Wagner Community Members Named to Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s Transition Team… Prospect Park Alliance Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Tiffany Ann Taylor, vice president for …
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URPL-GP.4650
Advanced GIS: Interactive Web Mapping and Spatial Data Visualization… Final project will be an interactive web map around an Urban topic of your choosing. This course will involve …Faculty Profile
Francis Yu… New York (Mohawk Land). Francis is an alumnus of the M.S. Urban Planning graduate from GSAPP at Columbia University …
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Zhan Guo… from Tsinghua University, China, and a MCP and a Ph.D in Urban Planning from MIT. …
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Social Implications of Infrastructure Network Interactions… and the increasing density and vertical integration of urban cores have increased reliance upon the connectivity …
Alumni In Action
Arundathi Amirapu… deeply passionate about building equitable and sustainable urban environments through the use of data-driven policy making. While I knew I wanted to pursue a degree in urban planning, it was important to me that the program be … as I felt it would help me better contextualize any new urban policies or solutions. How would you describe your …
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Jianhao (Felix) Zhou… for graduate school? I was super excited about studying urban planning in New York City. Wagner has a great urban planning program with flexibility to take a variety of … courses at other schools that benefit knowledge buildup of urban studies. Curricular practical training offers …
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Thomas Sugrue… of the Metropolitan Studies Program. A leading scholar of urban and suburban America, race, politics, and public policy, he is author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit … has served on many boards, including as President of the Urban History Association and the Social Science History …