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University of New Mexico students had a chance to participate in a national urban planning simulation designed to showcase how development looks in the real world.
The Urban Land Institute’s New Mexico chapter led the state’s first iteration of the UrbanPlan program earlier this month, which allowed 20 graduate and undergraduate students at UNM to run a two-day simulation bringing an empty parcel in a fake city from blueprint to approval.
Dan Majewski, district coordinator for ULI’s New Mexico chapter, said the program is more than just (nerdy) fun for architecture students.
The program is designed to get students familiar with challenges, from cost constraints to neighborhood opposition, that they’ll face once they begin developing projects for real.