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 In profile this month is the Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR) at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, which for three decades has served the nation with basic and applied research on a broad spectrum of public policy issues. CUPR, a component of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, is nationally and internationally recognized for its research on affordable housing, land use policy, arts and cultural policy, development-impact analysis, the costs of sprawl, transportation-information systems, environmental impacts, and community economic development. CUPR has developed a wide array of fiscal, environmental, transportation, and quality-of-life impact models that have been used in major public policy evaluations throughout the United States.
Housed within the center is CUPR Press, one of the nations premier publishers in the field of city and regional planning. Also housed there is (1) R/ECON, a quarterly economic forecasting service for the State of New Jersey; (2) the New Jersey Public Policy Research Institute (NJPPRI), a research center specializing in policy for and about the African-American community; and (3) the Community Development Institute (CDI), a training institute for community development professionals.
The Centers multi-disciplinary faculty and staff are experienced in urban and regional planning, economics, public administration, regional science, sociology, urban geography, computer programming, geographic information systems, and statistics.
Since its founding, the Center has completed more than $20 million in sponsored research for federal agencies, major private foundations, state and local government agencies in New Jersey, and a score of other states and private funders.
Federal sponsors of recent CUPR research include the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Economic Development Administration, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. Major foundations funding CUPR research include Ford, McKnight, Fannie Mae, Pew, and the Twentieth Century (now the Century Foundation). In New Jersey, CUPR has completed research for the state departments of Community Affairs, Environmental Protection and Human Services, as well as for the Council on Affordable Housing and the Office of State Planning. State and local government agencies from Florida to California also have sponsored CUPR research. Private funders include Johnson & Johnson, the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Corporation, and Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, Inc.
For more information, please visit http://policy.rutgers.edu/cupr, or write to the Center for Urban Policy Research, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 33 Livingston Avenue, Civic Square, Suite 400, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1982; Tel: /Fax: .
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