Where do global planning researchers, practitioners, and students connect?

The Global Planning Educators Interest Group (GPEIG) is helping answer that question through Project BRidGE—an interactive, living map showcasing planning projects and the people behind them around the world.

In just a few minutes, you can add your project, discover others working in similar areas, and strengthen connections across the global planning community.

We are excited to present the final GPEIG Annual Newsletter (AY 2025-2026)! This letter captures all GPEIG activities, and highlights some of the exciting work done in Global Planning across the world.

We are now switching to monthly listserv digests, website blogs, and LinkedIn posts, and quarterly business meetings.

We are replacing the annual newsletter with something more alive: this monthly digest, an active website and LinkedIn presence, and spaces for your voices to steer what GPEIG does next.

Check out our first monthly newsletter!

GPEIG accomplishes its work through appointed committees and the generous service of its members.

Deden Rukmana sat down with Bish Sanyal, Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning at MIT and co-founder of GPEIG, to learn more about his career in planning and hopes for international development.

Ana Paula Pimentel Walker is an assistant professor in urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Read more about Dr. Walker, her plans for GPEIG and the rest of GPEIG’s leadership.

The ACSP 2022 annual conference will be held from November 3-6 2022 in Toronto, Ontario. Keep visiting our website to learn more about the many GPEIG-sponsored events at ACSP, including the annual luncheon!

The International Planning Case Studies Project, a collaboration between the University of Michigan and Texas A&M University, has all-new cases to incorporate into your classroom. This free library of practitioner-developed cases includes teaching guidance, suggested readings, visual materials, and more.

Maria Atuesta Ortiz, who earned her PhD in Urban Planning from Harvard University, won the Gill-Chin Lim Award for Best Dissertation in International Planning. Read more about her work.

Andrew Wang, who earned his Doctor in Sustainable Urbanism from Washington University, won the 2021 Best Student Paper Award from GPEIG.