The Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP), BUET is the oldest and largest planning school in Bangladesh. As an academic department, we educate; as a center for excellence in research, we create knowledge; as a platform for advisory and consultancy services, we outreach our stakeholders. Our motto is promoting people, shaping built environment, and saving the planet. Through our undergraduate and postgraduate programs, we produce future leaders in planning and development. Our alumni are successfully working in government, private, and non-profit institutions at local, national, and international levels. Our faculty members are well recognized in planning education, research, and professional activities rendered for both national and international organizations. Our approach is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, strength is team work and hence, we get and give opportunity to grow together and go further.