17th Annual PLPR Conference

The International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) held its 17th annual conference May 1-5, 2023 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The event was hosted by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and co-sponsored by the College of Design, Georgia Tech University, and the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, University of Maryland.

The University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 34 million gross square feet (780 acres; 3.2 km2) spread out over a Central Campus and North Campus, two regional campuses in Flint and Dearborn, and a Center in Detroit. It is considered one of the foremost research universities in the United States with annual research expenditures of $1.62 billion. Its comprehensive graduate program offers doctoral degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) as well as professional degrees in architecture, urban and regional planning, business, medicine, law, pharmacy, nursing, social work, public health, and dentistry. Michigan's body of living alumni comprises more than 540,000 people, one of the largest alumni bases of any university in the world.