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- The Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology is a department within the School of Architecture and
Planning at MIT. It is comprised of four specialization areas (also referred to
as Program Groups): City Design and Development; Environmental Policy; Housing,
Community and Economic Development; and International Development and Regional
Planning. There are also two cross-cutting areas of study: Transportation
Planning and Policy, and Urban Information Systems (UIS).
The four major research areas of the department are:
1. City Design and Development (CDD)
2. Environmental Policy Group (EPG)
3. Housing, Community, and Economic Development (HCED)
4. International Development and Regional Planning (IDRP)
[Summary provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .]
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