On May 6, Virginia Commonwealth University’s L. Douglas Wilder School hosts its 4th Annual Plan Off!, the Master of Urban and Regional Planning Student Tournament. The tournament will be held from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the University Student Commons located at 907 Floyd Avenue.
In this event—co-sponsored by the Wilder School and VHDA—graduate students in the school’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning program will compete against one another by pitching their solution to a real-world planning, public policy or management problem before a panel of judges.
Pitches represent a condensed version of a semester-long project developed by each student for an actual client. Students will present plans addressing a variety of current community challenges and opportunities, including affordable housing, historic preservation, social equity, urban bike and city trails, water reclamation and tactical urbanism.
“The Plan-Off was really born out of a larger VCU approach to planning. That approach has always been to guide, not lecture students and to get them involved in real-world projects that will help them develop into consultants who can put theory into practice,” said Planning Instructor Jim Smither, who leads “URSP 762: Professional Planning,” the capstone course upon which tournament pitches are based.
For more information, see the Plan Off! 2015 event page or contact John Accordino at jaccordino@vcu.edu or (804) 827-0525.
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