The Doctor of Philosophy degree in Environmental Design and Planning is an individualized collegewide interdisciplinary degree that integrates graduate courses and faculty research expertise with emphasis on: Sustainability, urban and suburban revitalization, desert cities, community building, environmental stewardship, and entrepreneurship. The program offers concentrations in:
- Design
- Planning
- History, Theory, and Criticism
The program is at the cutting edge of creating new knowledge in environmental design and planning. Broad in scope, the program involves multidisciplinary research interests at both micro- and macro-scale levels of design and planning. The program provides research experience for students wishing to pursue careers in industry as members of interdisciplinary design and planning teams on environmental and energy issues, as well as for those wishing to teach in the architecture, design, or planning fields.
The College has become one of the nation's premier design and planning educational centers. Our award-winning facilities are unsurpassed by any other design college in the country. An excellent faculty from a unique set of disciplines represents the three schools in the College: Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Design, and Planning.
The college is committed to leadership in developing the highest level of scholarship and understanding of the disciplines it represents, and in critically assessing the relationships among these and the related disciplines. The College of Design is led by Dean Wellington Reiter, a proponent of interdisciplinary work and an advocate of cultural responsibility to communities.
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