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School Started Monday, August 2, 2010!

If you are interested in attending SUPAR, please contact the School Office.  SUPAR is accepting students.

SUPAR Open House, Wednesday, August 24, 6 - 8 pm

Families, community partners, and students considering applying to SUPAR are welcome to join us at Open House.  Meet our terrific staff and volunteers.  Learn about SUPAR's approach to learning and how it prepares you for a successful future.  Find out how you can become a member of the SUPAR Governing Board.  Hope to see you here!

The School for Urban Planning and Architecture (SUPAR) is a Milwaukee Public High School created in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

SUPAR brings high school students to proficiency and beyond by preparing them to pursue successful careers, and introducing them to the skills and professions involved in planning, designing, and transforming communities to create a better future.

New SUPAR Calendar (posted August 23, 2010)
 

Parent Survey - click here!  Help us create a welcoming and successful school.  Your ideas are important to us.

SUPAR News Rain Barrel Project: SUPAR works with Layton Boulevard West Neighbors through Lead to Succeed, June 2010 SUPAR Takes First in Destination Imagination for the Milwaukee Region--now on to state tournament in Stevens Point, April 17, 2010. SUPAR at the Sturgeon Bowl (2010) SUPAR takes Third Place in Silver division SUPAR News Archive

Lead to Succeed is a youth training program to prepare high school students for career development.  SUPAR students participated at the conference this winter and are working on service projects while earning wages from private businesses. SUPAR Newsletter, Fall 2009

 

Support SUPAR by making a financial contribution of any amount.

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Or you may send a check to SUPAR, Inc. treasurer, Nancy Frank.  Please make check payable to SUPAR, Inc.  Send to Nancy Frank, UWM Department of Urban Planning, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI  53201-0413.

What is Urban Planning?

The field of urban planning seeks to make communities better places in which to live and work.

Urban planning concerns itself with the health and quality of life in urban places. Urban planners need to work with the transportation system, the economy, the environment, urban design and physical facilities, and the culture and politics of a city to maintain quality of life. Urban planning is future-oriented. Planners look five, twenty, and even fifty years into the future to anticipate the future consequences of current trends and activities. Urban planning is about considering the consequences of present actions on the future quality of life in the city.

What is Architecture?

Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings and groups of buildings.  While architecture, as a profession, focuses on the design of buildings, the process and tools of design that one learns as an architect can be used in a wide variety of design fields, including urban design, interior design, landscape design, furniture design, and graphic design.  Increasingly, architects are focusing on the energy consumption of buildings and the carbon emissions from buildings.  Architects focus on green building methods in order to create buildings that are healthy for their occupants and leave a small "footprint" on the environment--from water consumption to energy consumption to air emissions.

 

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