Nearly 40 students from the Springfield Honors Academy recently visited the Olver Design Building on the UMass Amherst campus to learn about the profession of city planning and get a taste of college life.
The Oct. 25 field trip was part of an ongoing collaboration between the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) and the high school. The students, who are primarily juniors in the AP Seminar class of instructor Thomas Bodo, have been learning about how city planners work to resolve problems related to the social and built environment. Read more here.
