{"id":27,"date":"2016-08-19T22:09:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2016-08-29T21:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T01:54:01","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/about\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Urban Planning Association was founded by Pablo Aboumrad, MCP\u201908, in 2006 as an informal group of students interested in strengthening community relationships within the program and with other institutions. In 2014, the group\u2019s officers decided to pursue official status as a Boston University student organization, and earned that recognition in 2015 with the new title of Urban Planning Association. UPA Executive Board members are elected annually during the spring semester.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132\" style=\"width: 752px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/upa\/files\/2016\/08\/IMG_6063-e1471668722712-636x296.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6063\" width=\"742\" height=\"345\" class=\"  wp-image-132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/files\/2016\/08\/IMG_6063-e1471668722712-636x296.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/files\/2016\/08\/IMG_6063-e1471668722712-1024x476.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All images \u00a9 Copyright 2016 Boston University Urban Planning Association<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urban Planning Association was founded by Pablo Aboumrad, MCP\u201908, in 2006 as an informal group of students interested in strengthening community relationships within the program and with other institutions. In 2014, the group\u2019s officers decided to pursue official status as a Boston University student organization, and earned that recognition in 2015 with the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11703,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/200"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}