center for urban and public affairs (CUPA)

            Billy Fields, Ph.D., Director, CUPA
            Paulette Simon, Coordinator of Business Affairs at CUPA and SUPRS

OVERVIEW

Welcome to the Center for Urban and Public Affairs (CUPA), a multidisciplinary, non-partisan center for urban research and planning at the University of New Orleans. CUPA has produced and disseminated rigorous applied and scholarly urban research for over 20 years.

The mission of helping to facilitate and understand healthy, sustainable urban communities has been made all the more important as the Gulf Coast region recovers from Hurricane Katrina. CUPA has been at the forefront of post-Katrina planning. Through participation in the creation of the Unified New Orleans Plan, hosting national conferences on recovery such as the National Conference for Disaster Planning for Carless Society and the Planners Network Conference, and numerous other applied and scholarly works, CUPA has built tremendous expertise in the challenges and opportunities that lie at the heart of rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Region. This expertise is being put to use in a wide variety of projects of local and national significance.

AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

- Comprehensive Planning and Citizen Participation
- Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning
- Neighborhood Planning and Community Development
- GIS Computer Mapping and Database Development
- Land Use and Zoning

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