The website, designed with the help of Ashley So, acts as a repository for student papers and projects from "Crime and the City" (URBN 1230), a course about the socio-spatial construction and understanding of contemporary urban criminality taught by Professor Stefano Bloch (Urban Studies).
A Ferguson teach-in was hosted on campus by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Urban Studies Professors James Morone and Stefano Bloch were on the panel.
The Providence Journal featured Dietrich Neumann's fall 2012 studio seminar, co-taught with Friedrich St. Florian of RISD and Ed Mitchell of Yale, on its front page (May 7, 2013). Teams of Brown and RISD students enrolled in "Land Use Planning: The I-195 Parcels" (URBN 1900) designed new uses for the downtown land left vacant by the dismantling and moving of the interstate highway. Their models were the subject of a catalog and exhibited to the public. The class and the publication were fully sponsored by Urban Studies.