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Urban@Parsons is a unique, design-based graduate learning environment deeply engaged with the city, placing questions of social, spatial, and environmental justice at its core. We actively address the ongoing and ever-changing challenges of urban life—while emphasizing the vital role that citizens and residents play in making cities more resilient and sustainable through collective action.

Bridging public policy, urban planning, community advocacy and other disciplines, we advance critical practices and research approaches that seek to fundamentally redefine cities and urbanization.

In this critical moment where global forces reshape every aspect of urban life—from food, education, and housing to jobs, mobility, and infrastructure— we believe there is an unprecedented urgency to engage through design and research in developing and implementing radically new approaches that can transform the socially, economically, and environmentally unsustainable forms of urbanization that have dominated policy and politics for decades.