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Doctoral Program: Public and Urban Policy

Welcome to the PhD in Public and Urban Policy page. Explore the most recent blog posts below to learn more about the program. Please email your program director to request specific resources be added to this page.

Visit the PhD in Public and Urban Policy page on The New School’s official site to learn about degree requirements, application information, program faculty, FAQs, other PhD students and graduates, and more.

  

Recent PhD Public and Urban Policy Posts

 

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Milano PhD Phillip Plotch discusses new book on Tappan Zee megaproject on NPR

Milano PhD, Phillip Plotch, has just published his first book, Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject through Rutgers University Press.The book looks at the history of inaction and inertia in public planning; contrasted with the very active Robert Moses (and Governor Andrew Cuomo) approach of minimal transparency and closed-door decision making. Throughout his research he has interviewed more than a hundred key players, and accessed countless internal government documents.For more information on Politics Across the Hudson, please see www.PoliticsAcrosstheHudson.com, or visit WNYC for a video and a radio interview.    ...
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Alumni Spotlight: Raven Brown

Raven Brown is currently a PhD student in the Public and Urban Policy program at Milano and a GPIA alumni. While pursuing a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Bennington College in social science and ceramics, Raven became immersed in feminist critiques of anthropology and applied those ideas to her sculpture. Through anthropology she learned about the Universal Access to Treatment Campaign and the undue burden illness places on women and children worldwide. While at GPIA, Raven continued to focus on gender and public health in development. She participated in the International Field Program in Johannesburg where she conducted participatory research ...
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Urban Policy Professor David Howell Blogs on Inequality

Director of the Public and Urban Policy PhD program at Milano, David Howell, recently wrote three blog pieces about inequality for the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) at The New School. Howell's articles examine income distribution in the United States over the past few decades, and whether it is a question of inequality or opportunity.You can read his articles here: The Republican Attack on the Inequality Debate, Why Relative Mobility is a Side Show, and Is it About Inequality or Opportunity?   ...
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Faculty News: Professor David Howell in the NY Times

Professor of Economics and Public Policy, David Howell spoke about his draft paper for the Center for American Progress in a recent New York Times article, "Looking for Capitalism's Tipping Point". In the article Professor Howell speaks about the perceived correlation between economic grown and income inequality. Professor Howell directs the Doctoral Program in Public and Urban Policy at The New School. He is an affiliated member of the New School’s economics department, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (The New School), and a Research Scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute (U-Mass Amherst). His research ...
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Article: Why Quantitative Skills Matter to Public Policy Graduate Students

Graduate students in public policy programs are taking quantitative courses - economics, statistics, finance - beyond that which is required to earn their degrees.  They realize the competitive edge having such skills offers them in the job market.  Thanks for the article recommendation, Professor Charles Allison! (Blog) - Public policy graduate students are beefing up their finance, economics and math skills ...
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