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Farewell and a new beginning from your Wagner Planner editors – Jake Mericle, Emily Speelman, and Calley Wang

Dear Readers, It has been a pleasure to publish and edit the Wagner Planner this year. This is the first year the Planner has had a team of co-editors, and we’re delighted to carry on our student publication’s long-standing tradition. When we started, we had a vision of being a platform that represented the diverse… Read more Farewell and a new beginning from your Wagner Planner editors – Jake Mericle, Emily Speelman, and Calley Wang

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Putting a Queens Park Project on the Right Track

Guest contributor Jeremy Espenshade explores a way forward for both a linear park and rail service on the abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch. This piece was corrected on 5/8/2024 to fix some typos, attributions, and the correct length of the proposed QueensLink rail project. Inspecting a satellite map of Queens, you may notice two slices of… Read more Putting a Queens Park Project on the Right Track

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The Wagner Planner Podcast – Ep.1: Welcome

It’s official! The Wagner Planner Podcast is up and running! Ben Listman, Senior Staff Writer, will host conversations with NYU Wagner Professor and other members of the planning profession to discuss their careers, topics of interest, and advice for future planners.  In the first episode, he introduces the Podcast with Editor-in-Chief Charley Cohen and discuss… Read more The Wagner Planner Podcast – Ep.1: Welcome

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Letter from the Editor

Dear readers, This past year, as we have continued to make sense of what it meant to live with COVID-19’s “new normal,” were also fortunate to explore a wide range of topics that touched on urban mobility, equitable planning, data analytics, misinformation, housing crisis, climate change, special redistricting, participatory planning, tactical urbanism, green spaces, international… Read more Letter from the Editor

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Thinking of a Master Plan: The 10 Most Important Things I Have Learned as a NYU Wagner First Year Master of Urban Planning Student in a Global Pandemic

by Charley Cohen Well, here we are. The end of the academic year. For a time when it seems that time is a flat circle, where Tuesdays could be Fridays but it’s really Wednesday, we have reached the definitive end of the spring semester. For all the abnormality this year has thrown upon us, Financial… Read more Thinking of a Master Plan: The 10 Most Important Things I Have Learned as a NYU Wagner First Year Master of Urban Planning Student in a Global Pandemic

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