Center for Urban Policy Research

Making human settlements healthier, equitable, sustainable, and resilient through research, education, and public engagement.

Built Environment & Green Buildings

Our built environment group promotes green building and healthy communities through research, education and training, and partnerships with industry, government and not-for-profit organizations.

Environmental Analysis & Communications

The Environmental Analysis and Communications (EAC) Group advances strategies and approaches designed to build communities that are healthier, greener, more equitable and more resilient.

Local Government Research

Our Local Government Research unit’s mission is support of New Jersey state and local government fiscal, administrative, and technology activities.

Infrastructure Networks

The work of this group provides policymakers with actionable insights into the ramifications of policies using an interdisciplinary approach.

Urban Policy

The Urban Policy group conducts research in the areas of community development, development and environmental impact analysis, economic development, historic preservation, housing, public finance, smart growth and transportation and infrastructure.

For five decades, the Center for Urban Policy Research has served the nation with basic and applied research on a broad spectrum of public policy issues.

The Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR), a component of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, is nationally and internationally recognized for its research on the most critical issues facing communities today. CUPR tackles research on these issues in New Jersey, in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, and nationwide, with a focus on equitable access to resources and opportunities for historically marginalized communities and populations.

Practice & Research Areas

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Built Environment & Green Building

Our built environment group promotes green building and healthy communities through research, education and training, and partnerships with industry, government and not-for-profit organizations.

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Environmental Analysis & Communications

The Environmental Analysis and Communications (EAC) Group advances strategies and approaches designed to build communities that are healthier, greener, more equitable and more resilient.

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Infrastructure Networks

We work on integrating sophisticated and complex climate, weather, air chemistry, power systems, and macroeconomic models to understand the implications of major energy initiatives. Research includes cost-benefit data sets and models for energy policies.

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Bloustein Local

Our Bloustein Local unit serves as a focal point to disseminate, through a variety of mechanisms, aggregated data, research and analyses useful to New Jersey’s elected and appointed officials, faculty and researchers, policy analysts and practitioners.

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Urban Policy

We research community development, development and environmental impact analysis, economic development, historic preservation, housing, public finance, smart growth and transportation and infrastructure.