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Capstone Projects
Healthy Food Access in Underserved Urban Areas… with a lack of access to healthy food in underserved urban neighborhoods, and how planners can help rectify the … Healthy Food Access in Underserved Urban Areas …
Alumni In Action
Anita LedererPlease describe how your experiences at NYU Wagner prepared you for your career? Quantitative classes, like statistics and multiple regression, were useful in my first job after Wagner because I worked with a lot of data in that role. Now that I am doing …
News
NYU Wagner Welcomes Distinguished Visiting Urbanist Iris Weinshall… insights from her extensive career in public service and urban management, enriching students’ learning experience, …
Capstone Projects
Public Place: Visioning the Gowanus Canal WaterfrontBrooklyns Gowanus Canal, once a vibrant oyster bed and pristine fishery, is today one of the most toxic waterways in the United States. But with land becoming increasingly sparse in New York City, vacant lots along the canal have the potential to be …
Capstone Projects
Public Place: Visioning the Gowanus Canal WaterfrontBrooklyns Gowanus Canal, once a vibrant oyster bed and pristine fishery, is today one of the most toxic waterways in the United States. But with land becoming increasingly sparse in New York City, vacant lots along the canal have the potential to be …
Capstone Projects
Identifying Needs and Exploring Options for Affordable Housing in a Changing Manhattan Neighborhood"The Capstone team provided the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC) with information to help the organization see the current state of the community and evaluate the feasibility of affordable housing construction in the context of …
Publication
Active living and social justice: Planning for physical activity in low income and black and Latino communities… rising rates of overweight and obesity. Active living-urban planning and design to promote physical activity?has … strategies that may help to promote active living in urban settings to better serve these communities. Abstract … rising rates of overweight and obesity. Active living-urban planning and design to promote physical activity?has …
Faculty Profile
Jacob VictoryJacob Victory is Associate Clinical Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner, Director of MPA-Health Policy and Management Program, and Director, MS in Health Law and Strategy Program, a joint graduate degree sponsored by NYU Law and NYU Wagner. …
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How to Apply to the Online MHAFill out your online application. Entry Term Offered in the Fall semester and the Spring semester Application Deadline Online applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on the day of the deadline. Any mailed application material must …
News
Two Wagner Alumni Named 2025 Trailblazers in Economic Development New York is an international economic leader, and ensuring the state continues to attract growing industries and create jobs is a top policy priority. City & State’s 2025 Trailblazers in Economic Development power list recognizes the leaders helping fuel …
Stories
Obesity: What Policies Address It and How Well Do They Work? Picture yourself at a bodega in Manhattan, stomach grumbling, on the hunt for a quick snack. You reach for a Snickers bar, but your eyes pause on the bright red label on the packaging: LESS HEALTHY. Would that steer you toward a healthier option? How …
Publication
Peer-to-Peer Information Exchange on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Bus Priority Practices… on the streets of dense and/or highly congested large urban centers. Three major themes were the focus of the …
Publication
Using cross-curricular, problem-based learning to promote understanding of poverty in urban communities… to teach students about the scope and consequences of urban poverty through an innovative cross-curricular project. … to educate the next generation of social workers about urban poverty and strategies for community-based research and … learning to promote understanding of poverty in urban communities …
Publication
Does Small High School Reform Lift Urban Districts? Evidence From New York City… deliver better outcomes than large high schools for urban students. An important outstanding question is whether … Does Small High School Reform Lift Urban Districts? Evidence From New York City …
Capstone Projects
Urban Reproductive Health Agenda… "In America's urban centers, high concentrations of poverty, large … of critical need. To begin a dialogue on best practices in urban reproductive health policy, the New York City Council … Institute for Reproductive Health will hold a summit on urban reproductive health in May 2008, which will bring …
Course
EXEC-GP.2413
Strategic Philanthropy (EMPA)This course will explore the fault lines within the field of philanthropy and prepare students to effectively leverage resources for their organizations. The course will examine different approaches to grantmaking including: social entrepreneurship, …News
NYU Wagner Announces New Faculty Members… Analytics, and Professor of Practice at the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). Jacob W. Faber, an … J. Sugrue will be Affiliated Professor. He is a scholar of urban policy and civil rights, and is writing a history of … will be a Visiting Scholar at Wagner. He is an urban planner and economist from the University of …
Capstone Projects
Nonprofit Voter EngagementCommon Cause NY provides a voice for citizens in support of open, honest, and accountable government at all levels. Community Votes, a nonprofit organization, partners with community-based social service organizations to conduct nonpartisan voter …
Course
PADM-GP.2413
Strategic PhilanthropyThis course will explore the fault lines within the field of philanthropy and prepare students to effectively leverage resources for their organizations. The course will examine different approaches to grantmaking including: social entrepreneurship, …News
Six NYU Wagner Alumni Named to City & State’s 2024 Power of Diversity: Latino 100 In alignment with Hispanic Heritage Month, City & State released its 2024 Power of Diversity: Latino 100 , recognizing the “most influential Latino leaders in New York politics and government.” Notably, seven NYU Wagner alumni were selected for the …
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Student SpotlightQuamid Francis "What was valuable for me at NYU Wagner was being connected with other first-generation college students and the platform we were provided to share our stories. This is what led to my network expanding and, as a consequence, the …
Capstone Projects
Mount Vernon east station area downtown revitalization plan… 13 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. Like many urban areas across the country, Mount Vernon is confronting a … to its economy and quality of life. At the same time, its urban fabric—concentrated around the Mount Vernon East Metro … that have proven successful in revitalizing similar urban areas also informed the team’s plan. …
Publication
Of Risk and Pork: Urban Security and the Politics of Rationality… This article focuses on the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) controversy as a case … not yet been settled, and entrepreneurial officials from urban and regional governments use different techniques to … manage risk. For political actors, victory in debates over urban security comes from codifying one’s interests within …
Alumni In Action
Judita Eisenberger… who had been out of the city for several years, studying urban planning in New York helped me get closer to the city I … ways that I wouldn’t have imagined. The small size of the urban planning program is also a major draw; we were a … to working with faculty involved in an incredible range of urban planning issues, to studying with fellow students who …