Course Descriptions

Urban Planning
(PLAN)

(faculty, see Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning)

356. Housing and Community. (3-0). Credit 3.

Housing, its development, planning, marketing, designing, financing and production; social and design history and contemporary issues of American housing development, urban renewal, neighborhood structure and community facilities. Prerequisite: Junior or senior classification.

360. Introduction to the Urban Planning Function. (3-0). Credit 3. I, II, S

Past influences and current practice of planning in the United States; issues which impact on the comprehensive planning process; different approaches to planning and plan formulation in the context of private, governmental and institutional settings.

365. Introduction to Planning. (3-0). Credit 3. I, II, S

Determinants of land use patterns; classification of uses; idealized conceptual alternatives; location and size criteria; mapping; comprehensive planning process, relationship to circulation planning.

370. Introduction to Health Systems Planning. (3-0). Credit 3. I, II, S

Introduction to planning in the health care system at both institutional and community levels.

414. Sustainable Communities. (3-0). Credit 3.

Focuses on sustainable community with applications in public policy/design including societal organization, disciplinary bound design and policy, and empowered approaches to design, social ecology and public policy; reading and review of relevant literature on sustainability, complemented with exercises to illustrate underlying principles. Prerequisite: Junior or senior classification or approval of instructor.

415. Urban Issues. (3-0). Credit 3.

Issues pertaining to the evolution and development of cities and urban regions; examines the socio-economic, cultural and physical development of urban areas; addresses contemporary problems such as racial tension, unemployment and poverty, housing, pollution and environmental sustainability, traffic and congestion, land use, crime, public health, and other quality of life issues. Prerequisite: Junior or senior classification or approval of instructor.

485. Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 5 each semester. I, II, S

Individual instruction in selected aspects of planning not adequately covered by other courses, with stress on reports and readings in selected areas of planning.

489. Special Topics in… Credit 1 to 4. I, II, S

Selected topics in an identified field of urban planning. May be repeated for credit.