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GPY 414 Students Reimagine US-131

GVSU Students seek input from the community on US-131 Redesign

Geography

Published May 19, 2026 by Amanda Reader

Downtown Grand Rapids is adding two venues. Where is everyone supposed to park?

Check out a interview that Professor Dr. Chad Frederick of the Geography and Sustainable Planning Department had with WOODTV on Downtown Grand Rapids parking!

Geography

Published May 19, 2026

GVSU at Cairo, Illinois

GVSU & Geography and Sustainable Planning Department students, Griffin Thompson and River Hull, donated a 1907 3D map of Downtown Cairo, IL to their Fine Arts Center on August 1st, 2025. 

Published August 4, 2025

Changing Her Own Course

Read this story about GVSU grad, Rebecca Lubbers, and her journey with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a Geography and Sustainable Planning major.

Published July 9, 2025

GVSU in Michigan Planner magazine

Check out this story published in the Michigan Planner magazine about Planning and Zoning Center Archives at GVSU!

Published June 4, 2025

Griffin Thompson - 2025 Iron Cartographer Winner

Congratulations to GVSU's own Griffin Thompson for winning the 2025 Iron Cartographer competition during the IMAGIN/MiCAMP Conference that ran June 1-3.

Geography

Published June 4, 2025

Single-Family vs. Multifamily: Which Housing Types Are Seeing the Biggest Growth?

In this article published on 3/18/25, GVSU Geography and Sustainable Planning Department's own Professor Chad Frederick collaborated with the authors to analyze the U.S. housing market.

Published March 26, 2025

Ethics as a Missing Link Between Human Happiness and Environmental Sustainability

This recently published article was written by Katherine Carron, a recent GVSU grad, and by GVSU's own, Dr. Elena Lioubimtseva!

Published February 21, 2025

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