Pratt Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

09/22/2026

Looking to launch your career with purpose, pivot to a new line of work, or qualify for a new role? An MS degree or Advanced Certificate can be a great investment to set you up for a fulfilling career!

We’ll be at the Idealist Grad School Fair on Sept 29 to talk about how our 4 programs — Historic Preservation, Sustainable Environmental Systems, Urban and Community Planning, and Urban Placemaking and Management—equip students with the theory, technical capacity, collaborative skills, and critical thinking needed to preserve and plan for equitable, healthy, resilient, and inclusive communities. Bonus: it’s free to attend!

📅 RSVP now at https://www.idealist.org/grad-schools/attend

07/14/2026

🎓 Congratulations to our Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 graduates!

We are so proud of all your hard work, creativity, and accomplishments.

As you begin the next chapter in your journey, we wish you the very best. We can’t wait to see the positive changes you make in the world as you design infrastructure, conceptualize new types of spaces for shelter, culture, commerce, services, and social connection, consider and include the natural world in built environments, and elevate, celebrate, and preserve diverse forms of heritage. Those values that sit at the heart of student inquiries at the GCPE.

Join us in welcoming 42 practitioners to the fields of preservation, placemaking, environmental sustainability, and urban planning, whose research and commitment to community-based work expand and redefine our disciplines. We encourage you to connect with our graduates to learn more about their research and professional pursuits. Congratulations to the Class of 2026!

Read more about our graduates. Link in bio.

07/14/2026

🎓 Congratulations to our Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 graduates!

We are so proud of all your hard work, creativity, and accomplishments.

As you begin the next chapter in your journey, we wish you the very best. We can’t wait to see the positive changes you make in the world as you design infrastructure, conceptualize new types of spaces for shelter, culture, commerce, services, and social connection, consider and include the natural world in built environments, and elevate, celebrate, and preserve diverse forms of heritage. Those values that sit at the heart of student inquiries at the GCPE.

Join us in welcoming 42 practitioners to the fields of preservation, placemaking, environmental sustainability, and urban planning, whose research and commitment to community-based work expand and redefine our disciplines. We encourage you to connect with our graduates to learn more about their research and professional pursuits. Congratulations to the Class of 2026!

Read more about our graduates. Link in bio.

05/11/2026

Join us for our Spring 2026 studio and spring break travel presentations. Our studio courses are a key component of GCPE’s four masters programs, in which students work directly with community partners to tackle urban issues.

A GCPE Community Mixer will cap off the evening. Light refreshments will be provided.

In person and on zoom.
RSVP required. Link in bio.

Friday, May 15
5:30-7:30 PM

ARC building, room E-02
200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn

05/10/2026

05/04/2026

🌟 Pratt Shows 2026: GCPE Graduating Students Poster Showcase

Please join us on May 8th to learn about our graduating students’ novel interdisciplinary and applied research, as we celebrate the next generation of mission-driven, participatory planners, sustainable developers, preservationists, and placemakers!

Graduating students (Fall 2025 & Spring 2026) from the master’s in science programs in Historic Preservation, Sustainable Environmental Systems, Urban and Community Planning, and Urban Placemaking and Management in Pratt’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) will share posters summarizing their Thesis, Capstone, and Demonstration of Professional Competence degree-concluding projects in a lively, science fair format.

Free and open to the public! RSVP and photo ID required for non-Pratt attendees.

May 8, 2026
6:00–8:30 PM

Student Union
200 Willoughby Ave
Brooklyn, NY

Registration is required! Link in bio.

05/04/2026

⚡️Still thinking about getting an advanced degree? There is still time to apply for a masters of science or Advanced Certificate in all four of our programs!

• Historic Preservation
• Sustainable Environmental Systems
• Urban and Community Planning
• Urban Placemaking and Management

You may be eligible for work or transfer credits.



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04/14/2026

⚡️ Attention Pratt Students! ⚡️
All-Institute Elective for Summer!

SES-762-01: Sustainable Urban Agriculture
Wednesday, 5:00-7:50 PM (7/1-7/29)
1 credit

Explore the place and potential of urban agriculture in environmental planning, management, and development, using a social equity and resiliency lens. By utilizing a racial justice and social equity lens in concert with a sustainability and resiliency lens, the course is designed to facilitate a rigorous consideration of sustainable urban agriculture from an interdisciplinary social, ecological, and urban municipal land-use/built-environmental perspective. This course engages in a survey of the historical contextualization of sustainable urban agriculture via a review of Planned Shrinkage, Urban Renewal, and Redlining-informed municipal land use policy and municipal planning; the development of urban agriculture within this historical context as a community driven response to social, ecological, and environmental burdens; the evolution of urban agriculture into sustainable urban agriculture via ecological resiliency and environmental sustainability implications for rapidly aging infrastructure and increasingly climate change-vulnerable built environment; and the governance context of New York City land use policy-making that presents unique challenges opportunities for the development of resiliency-promoting sustainable urban agriculture.

REGISTER NOW!

04/14/2026

⚡️ Attention Pratt Students! ⚡️
All-Institute Elective for Summer!

PR-713-01: Design and Conservation of Historic Landscapes
Monday & Thursday, 2:00-4:50 PM (5/26-6/23)
2 credits

Designed landscapes are everywhere in the form of public spaces, parks, and private gardens. But gardens and designed open spaces are the most ephemeral of our three-dimensional creations, and without care and maintenance, they quickly disappear. We seldom think of these places as “historic” or view them through the lens of Historic Preservation. In this class, we explore firsthand a diverse sampling of some of the most compelling historic public spaces, parks, and gardens in New York City and its environs, discussing how they were designed and built, as well as the issues of maintaining and preserving these spaces, the unique challenges of conservation and restoration, and, in some cases, their re-use.

REGISTER NOW!!!

04/06/2026

💫 Graduating students from all four GCPE programs will share their original, independent applied research projects. Some are remote, some are in person, some are hybrid. However you attend, there is something for everyone. Plan to join us to celebrate these students’ work and accomplishments!

✨Urban Placemaking and Management Demonstration of Professional Competency✨
April 8, 2026, 4:00–9:00 PM
Higgins Hall South 211+ ZOOM (link in bio)

⭐Historic Preservation Thesis ⭐
April 29, 2026, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
ZOOM (link in bio)

🌟Sustainable Environmental Systems Capstone 🌟
May 1 and May 4, 2026, 5:30-8:00 PM
Higgins Hall North 406B + ZOOM (LINK in bio)
IN PERSON RSVP to [email protected]

⭐Urban and Community Planning Thesis ⭐
May 5, 2026, 4:00-9:00 PM
ZOOM (link TBA)