Pratt Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

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

🌟 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.

⚡️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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⚡️ 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!

⚡️ 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!!!

💫 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)

👀 ICYMI: GCPE Legacies + NYC Futures 💫

Last month, the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) hosted an alumni and student mixer, followed by a roundtable reflecting on our legacies and discussing the city’s futures, featuring three graduates of our programs: Mike Flynn, Commissioner, NYC Department of Transportation; Tiffany-Ann Taylor, Chief Strategy Officer, NYC Department of Transportation; and Ron Shiffman, Professor Emeritus, GCPE and founder of the Pratt Center for Community Development.

You can find a recording of the roundtable discussion on the Talks.Pratt website (link in bio). Please share! And while you’re at it, check out the photos of our mixer and the webpages (linked in bio) of our Master of Science programs and Advanced Certificates in:

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



Event Photos: Dahlia Dandashi, pratt.edu/pcomm
Title Card Graphics: Jen Potter

💫 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 TBA)

🌟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)

🌟 Mark your calendars! Graduating students from all four GCPE programs will share their original, independent applied research projects. 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

🌟 Historic Preservation Thesis: April 29, 2026, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM

🌟 Sustainable Environmental Systems Capstone: May 1 and May 4, 2026, 5:30-8:00 PM

🌟 Urban and Community Planning Thesis: May 5, 2026, 4:00-9:00 PM

Stay tuned for more information about the students, their working titles, and registration links!