Before graduating, every planning student must participate in a studio course to apply skills learned in the classroom to the real world. Under the guidance of a project coordinator, student teams undertake a community-based project employing the same policy-driven research and development methods they will soon be expected to perform as professionals. It is the culmination of everything they have learned at Hunter.
STUDIO | Spring 2026
Neighborhood Planning for Zoning, Housing, and Public Space in Stamford
STUDIO | Spring 2026
Community-Oriented Strategies for BIDS in Changing Neighborhoods
STUDIO | 2024-2025
This report presents a forward-looking vision and a pragmatic menu of interventions to enhance the District’s economic competitiveness, environmental resilience, and public realm cohesion.
STUDIO | 2024-2025
Few places compare to Gateway National Recreation Area's Floyd Bennett Field
STUDIO | 2024-2025
This report proposes and discusses the potential for two Autonomous Vehicle (AV) pilot programs.
STUDIO | 2023-2024
We present a comprehensive set of strategies designed to foster a paradigm shift towards a car-free lifestyle in New York City.
STUDIO | Spring 2024
We offer recommendations to improve the health, well-being, and overall quality of life for current and future residents of West Farms.
STUDIO | Fall 2023
The client for the studio project was the housing policy team at the Community Service Society, an organization that has worked with and for New Yorkers since 1843 to promote economic opportunity and champion an equitable city and state.
STUDIO | 2022-2023
This plan seeks to redefine sanitation infrastructure in the public eye with its dual role as a state-of-the-art critical municipal facility and a beacon of the benefits NYC can provide its residents and the environment.
STUDIO | 2022-2023
In the face of a changed world, the studio identified these challenges and recommendations as a path forward for two of Westchester’s most important communities: the Cities of Mount Vernon and New Rochelle.
STUDIO | 2021-2022
This studio provides a framework to leverage the Bradhurst neighborhood's communal, cultural, public space, and environmental assets to begin to correct for racial inequities, public health issues, and climate threats faced by the community.
STUDIO | 2021-2022
PX Connects provides an assessment of existing conditions on the Prospect Expressway and proposes recommendations and implementation strategies to addressing local and regional needs for sustainable and equitable transportation, housing, and economic development.
STUDIO | 2021-2022
This project highlighted policies that would protect and expand a green industrial economy in New York City.
STUDIO | 2021-2022
This studio aimed to further existing plans to encourage sustainable infrastructure around Newtown Creek.
STUDIO | 2020-2021
Working on behalf of East River Park Action, this Studio sought to understand the shortcomings of the ESCR Plan as it relates to community engagement efforts, climate change, and COVID-19.
STUDIO | 2020-2021
This studio worked with Bricks & Mortals to examine how to help FBOs thrive in the NYC real estate environment.
STUDIO | 2020-2021
This studio developed a comprehensive planning report for integrating affordable housing and mass transit into selected Westchester County office parks.
STUDIO | 2019-2020
This studio worked with the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition to shine a light on the experiences of tenants in the housing court system.
STUDIO | 2019-2020
With a long history of helping marginalized people gain collective control of land, community land trusts are experiencing a wave of growth across NYC.
STUDIO | 2019-2020
The Vision for Complete Streets makes suggestions to NYC DOT for bike and pedestrian infrastructure interventions in Northeastern Queens (QCD-11) that will promote livability in the community.
STUDIO | 2018-2019
This studio focused on financial solutions that the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) was pursuing to reduce its capital budget shortfall.
STUDIO | 2018-2019
Using the NYC DOT carshare pilot program as a baseline, the studio developed recommendations for the future potential of carsharing in New York City.
STUDIO | 2018-2019
A revenue positive, 100-year vision of a waterfront redevelopment site.
STUDIO | 2017-2018
Assessing the potential of Stamford's Transportation Center serving as a multi-modal gateway and strengthening the City's role as a regional economic engine.
STUDIO | 2017-2018
NYC's severe lack of affordable artist housing creates a variety of impacts on the arts, culture and economy of our city. Our studio assessed ways the shortage is addressed, both in NYC & around the country.
STUDIO | 2017-2018
Our task: measure and quantify best practices in promoting social equality in real estate development. Read on to see how we did!
STUDIO | 2017-2018
A Proposal of Recommendations for the East Harlem Waterfront to encourage the development of Health,Culture,Resiliency, Ecology and Wayfinding in the East Harlem Community
STUDIO | 2016-2017
Currently experiencing a rebirth after many years of neglect, the North Shore of Staten Island is once again at a historic crossroad.
STUDIO | 2016-2017
Across the Yards offers solutions to reconcile the conflicting needs of students, office workers, and industrial businesses in East Long Island City.
STUDIO | 2016-2017
How can we - emergency preparedness experts, community organizers, public health professionals, housing advocates, urban planners, and concerned citizens - work together to bolster community resiliency as threats to community stability, health, prosperity increase?
STUDIO | 2015-2016
Working to elevate LGBTQ safety in public spaces through formal and informal actions, engaging all levels of government, facilitating coalition building, launching advocacy campaigns, and proposing design interventions.
STUDIO | 2015-2016
A suite of strategies that builds on Brownsville’s existing assets to improve public health outcomes in the short, medium and long-term for all residents
STUDIO | 2015-2016
Our proposal for an Eco-District tailored specifically to East Harlem that considers the neighborhood’s complex social and economic conditions.
STUDIO | 2014-2015
What would a regional network of hiking and biking trails in the New York metro are look like? Working with the Regional Plan Association, we explored the possibilities.
STUDIO | 2014-2015
Queens Boulevard has been a thoroughfare long enough. We think it’s time it became a destination. The measures we propose to design a better street are also ways to design more inviting neighborhoods.