2010 2008-12-18T18:12:53Z 3 URBPL History and evolution of American city planning and land-use regulation. Traces important events and personalities chronologically. 2 Cross listed as ENVST 2010 Shaping_Urban_America_Syllabus_2008-9.pdf 63600 2009-11-23T18:39:14Z 2009-11-23T18:39:14Z 3010 2008-12-18T18:13:12Z 3 URBPL Dynamic interaction among principal elements of a modern city illustrated through readings and computer game simulation. Land-use relationships, population and residential activity, production and industrial activity, internal markets and commercial activity, government services, and public-sector activity. 3 2008-12-18T18:13:12Z 3050 2008-12-18T18:13:29Z 3 URBPL Develops student’s abiltiy to graphically communicate ideas. 4 Meets with ARCH 3050. 2008-12-18T18:23:06Z 3100 2008-12-18T18:13:53Z 3 URBPL Introduction to urban and environmental policy problems, social science perspectives, current public planning and decision-making approaches. 5 Fulfills Upper Division Communication/Writing. 2008-12-18T18:23:31Z 3101 2008-12-18T18:24:05Z 3 URBPL Focusing on the natural, economic, built and social environments that shape cities, the course explores the various interactions of these forces as practiced and revealed in the disciplines of architecture and planning. 6 Cross listed as UGS 3101. Fulfills Soc/Beh Sci or Hum Exploration. 2008-12-18T18:24:05Z 3240 2008-12-18T18:24:21Z 3 URBPL Discussion of the choices practitioners, citizens and communities make when constructing and deconstructing our built and natural environment and the affect of social, economic and environmental justice. 7 2008-12-18T18:24:21Z 3250 2008-12-18T18:24:44Z 3 URBPL Overview of community planning process and methods of research and analysis for producing comprehensive plans. 8 Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS 2008-12-18T18:24:44Z 3270 2008-12-18T18:25:09Z 3 URBPL Studio in design and graphic presentation to communicate planning concepts. Developing and illustrating site and project plans using presentation software. Exploring concepts for creating site analysis reports in urban planning.View the "Syllabus":/files/3270_SyllabusSpring09.pdf 9 2009-11-04T04:31:31Z 3390 2008-12-18T18:25:29Z 3 URBPL A more sustainable future can be fostered by exploring the dynamic interactions between nature and society while weaving together human actions and behaviors with the basic functioning of the biosphere (e.g., hydrology, weather, climate, ecology, energy and human health). A whole-systems view of airsheds, watersheds and ecosystems are coupled with insight regarding the political, social and economic systems that modify, and are modified by, the natural environment. Students work in interdisciplinary teaming situations to explore solutions to integrated problems that yield a greater understanding of the challenges we face in achieving global sustainability. 10 Prerequisite: One physical science General Education course. 2008-12-18T18:25:29Z 4011 2008-12-18T18:25:48Z 1 URBPL Discussion of current issues and practice in the planning profession. 11 2008-12-18T18:25:48Z 4260 2008-12-18T18:26:04Z 3 URBPL Study of legal theories and institutional structures in planning, zoning, subdivision regulation, and urban redevelopment in the U.S.; survey of methods in writing and interpreting zoning codes, general plans, and subdivision ordinances. 12 2008-12-18T18:26:04Z 4280 2008-12-18T18:26:36Z 4 URBPL Using actual clients and real-world locations, students complete the various phases of comprehensive planning process and publish a final report. Students should plan to take this course the last semester before graduating. 13 Prerequisite: URBPL 3250, 3270, 5010. Major only. 2008-12-18T18:26:36Z 4390 2008-12-18T18:26:59Z 3 URBPL Studying the dynamic interactions between nature and society provides an improved foundation for accommodating the implications of natural systems and processes (e.g., hydrology, weather, climate, ecology, geology, energy and human health) in sustainable urban and architectural design. Scientific information, models and reports are explored in an urban policy context across scales ranging from individual people and single buildings to metropolitan areas, nations and the world. Issues of scientific uncertainty and the culture of science are examined to help designers learn how to communicate with natural scientist and engage them in the design process. 14 Prerequisite: One physical science General Education course 2008-12-18T18:26:59Z 4950 2008-12-18T18:27:24Z 2 to 4 URBPL Design and implementation of a specific planning topic in consultation with a faculty collaborator. 15 Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission required. 2008-12-18T18:27:24Z 4954 2008-12-18T18:27:44Z 4 URBPL On the job experiences for students in urban planning. 16 Major only. 2008-12-18T18:27:44Z 4960 2008-12-18T18:28:14Z 3 URBPL varies. 17 This course is used to accommodate one-time courses, occasional courses, and experimental courses. 2008-12-18T18:28:14Z 4999 2008-12-18T18:28:31Z 3 URBPL 18 Restricted to students in the Honors Program working on their Honors degree. 2008-12-18T18:28:31Z 5010 2008-12-18T18:29:07Z 3 URBPL A hands-on course in quantitative skills used for urban analysis. Data sources, dataset development, descriptive statistics, correlation, trend analysis, modeling, and styles for graphical and written presentation. Planning applications of demographic and economic analysis including population projection, economic base analysis, and measures of characteristics and distribution. 19 Fulfills Quantitative Intensive 2008-12-18T18:29:07Z 5020 2008-12-18T18:37:21Z 3 URBPL The economic, demographic, and spatial interation models used to analyze and develop alternative urban and regional plans including cohort-survival, input-output, shift-share, and gravity models. Model concepts, mathematics, design, logic, and limitations. Small-scale spreadsheet models are applied to analyze problems, interpret output and present results. 20 Recommended Prerequisite: Statistics course. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS. 2008-12-18T18:37:21Z 5030 2008-12-18T18:37:43Z 3 URBPL Hands on exploration of effective leadership in complex environments in which progressive, inclusive and sustainable planning is the objective. Students will develop skills in collaborative work-group behavior, nominal group processes, and interpersonal and group dynamics. 21 2008-12-18T18:37:43Z 5040 2008-12-18T18:37:56Z 3 URBPL An introduction to urban design and the variety of theories and methods used to assess the quality and functionality of urban environments, with a focus on plan interpretation, urban morphology, and factors that determine urban form. 22 2008-12-18T18:37:56Z 5220 2008-12-18T18:38:36Z 3 URBPL Land-use concepts, activities, problems, and techniques for land-use planning. 23 Cross listed as GEOG 5220. Meets with GEOG 6220. Graduate students should enroll in GEOG 6220 and will be held to higher standards and/or more work. 2008-12-18T18:38:36Z 5240 2008-12-18T18:39:02Z 3 URBPL Rationality and alternative approaches to the planning process; the scope of theory and ethics in planning; the prospects for collectively rational decision making; assorted cases and critiques; post-modern perspectives on coping with values, power, conflict and ethical criticism. 24 Prerequisite: Any course in URBPL. Fulfills Upper Division Communication/Writing. 2008-12-18T18:39:02Z 5270 2008-12-18T18:39:23Z 3 URBPL Theories of metropolitan regional development; their spatial organization; implications for land use, transportation and air quality; public policy context and options. A service-learning course. 25 2008-12-18T18:39:23Z 5300 2008-12-18T18:39:38Z 3 URBPL Addresses housing issues from historical, human rights, cultural, economic, and affordability perspectives, and explores how those perspectives interconnect. 26 2008-12-18T18:39:38Z 5320 2008-12-18T18:39:56Z 3 URBPL Economic, financial, and fiscal aspects of urbanization. 27 2008-12-18T18:39:56Z 5330 2008-12-18T18:40:14Z 3 URBPL Examination of most of the major growth management systems in the United States at local, regional, and state levels, assessing their purposes, politics, mechanics, impacts and outcomes. 28 2008-12-18T18:40:14Z 5340 2008-12-18T18:40:29Z 3 URBPL Planning perspective on the competition between public and private interests in land use and development. 29 2008-12-18T18:40:29Z 5350 2008-12-18T18:43:51Z 3 URBPL A review of environmental impact assessment, focusing on the policies, requirements, methods, and examples from the National Environmental Policy Act, with a review of state and local approaches to environmental impact assessment. 30 Cross listed as GEOG 5350. Meets with URBPL 6350. Graduate students should enroll in URBPL 6350 and will be held to higher standards and/or more work. 2008-12-18T18:43:51Z 5360 2008-12-18T18:44:14Z 3 URBPL A review of federal, state, and local environmental laws, policies and procedures as they affect planning, including air, water, and hazardous waste, impact assessment, public lands, common law, and aesthetic regulation. 31 Meets with URBPL 6360. 2008-12-18T18:44:14Z 5370 2008-12-18T18:44:48Z 3 URBPL Environmental policy design requires an understanding of human interactions with environmental systems. It requires an accounting of the complexities of behavior, context and policy. These complexities often produce indirect and unanticipated consequences. They yield unexpected patterns and counter-intuitive results. Students from many academic fields learn user-friendly software (STELLA) to do environmental policy simulation without proficiency in advanced mathematics. Students use computer simulations to sort out environmental complexities; transform group perceptions into simulation models; apply principles of environmental management; test policy effects and define possible pathways for future policy change. 32 Cross listed as GEO 5340. Meets with CVEEN 6660 and URBPL 6370. 2008-12-18T18:44:48Z 5371 2008-12-18T18:45:29Z 3 URBPL Using actual clients and a systems thinking approach, multi-disciplinary student teams resolve real world problems in environmental sustainability. Student teams define system structures, feedback loops, counter-intuitive relationships and the unintended consequences of policy decisions. Students having completed “System Dynamics and Environmental Policy” get to apply their experience in systems modeling in support of team efforts in full-scale, practical problem solving. Possible topics include: urban growth, drinking water, energy resources, air/water quality and environmental justice. 33 Complexity and Systems Thinking. Complexity and Systems Thinking. 2008-12-18T18:45:29Z 5390 2008-12-18T18:45:55Z 3 URBPL Interdisciplinary approach to theories and applications of sustainability in a variety of planning contexts. Final segment focuses on specific action plans related to sustainability. 34 View the "Syllabus.":/files/URBPL5390Syllabus_spring09.pdf 2009-11-04T03:48:51Z 5400 2008-12-18T18:46:22Z 3 URBPL Multiple visualization techniques and the communication of planning concepts and design alternatives. 35 Meets with ARCH 6056/URBPL 6400. 2008-12-18T18:46:22Z 5410 2008-12-18T18:46:43Z 3 URBPL Review and analysis of development site design, plat map preparation, subdivision review and impact analysis. 36 Meets with ARCH 6111. 2008-12-18T18:46:43Z 5420 2008-12-18T18:47:06Z 3 URBPL A framework for preserving and promoting cultural, ecological, developmental, agricultural and recreational assets through the design of open space plans. 37 Meets with ARCH 6831. 2008-12-18T18:47:06Z 5600 2008-12-18T18:47:30Z 3 URBPL Diverse views of urban land use, neighborhood development, local governments and citizen participation. Key actors and participants in the planning process. Managing the political aspects of urban change. 38 2008-12-18T18:47:30Z 5710 2008-12-18T18:47:51Z 3 URBPL Transportation systems planning and its application to real-world highway and public transport problems. 39 Prerequisite: CVEEN 3520 or instructor consent. 2008-12-18T18:47:51Z 5720 2008-12-18T18:48:12Z 3 URBPL Examination of current transportation policies and conditions in the U.S., the impacts those they have on other human and environmental systems, the major community and environmental influences implicit in American transportation policy, the planning processes that have led to these outcomes, and micro-scale community design features implicit in transportation system design. 40 2008-12-18T18:48:12Z 5962 2008-12-18T18:48:37Z 1 to 5 URBPL Varies 41 This course number is used to accommodate one-time courses, occasional courses, and experimental courses. Students may take more than one Special Topics course for credit. Consult with your major program adviser about the role of Special Topics courses in your major area of study. This course will usually count as a Substantive Area Requirement or an Allied Area Requirement in the Urban Planning Program. 2008-12-18T18:48:37Z 6010 2008-12-18T18:48:58Z 3 URBPL A hands-on course in quantitative skills used for urban analysis. Data sources, dataset development, descriptive statistics, correlation, trend analysis, modeling, and styles for graphical and written presentation. Planning applications of demographic and economic analysis including population projection, economic base analysis, and measures of characteristics and distribution. 42 2008-12-18T18:48:58Z 6011 2008-12-18T18:49:15Z 1 URBPL Discussion of current issues and practice in the planning profession. 43 2008-12-18T18:49:15Z 6020 2008-12-18T18:49:43Z 3 URBPL The economic, demographic, and spatial interaction models used to analyze and develop alternative urban and regional plans including cohort-survival, input-output, shift-share, and gravity models. Model concepts, mathematics, design, logic, and limitations. Small-scale spreadsheet models are applied to analyze problems, interpret output and present results. 44 2008-12-18T18:49:43Z 6030 2008-12-18T18:50:00Z 3 URBPL Hands on exploration of effective leadership in complex environments in which progressive, inclusive and sustainable planning is the objective. Students will develop skills in collaborative work-group behavior, nominal group processes, and interpersonal and group dynamics. 45 2008-12-18T18:50:00Z 6040 2008-12-18T18:50:15Z 3 URBPL An introduction to urban design and the variety of theories and methods used to assess the quality and functionality of urban environments, with a focus on plan interpretation, urban morphology, and factors that determine urban form. 46 2008-12-18T18:50:15Z 6100 2008-12-18T18:59:09Z 3 URBPL The historical development of urban form with emphasis on the spatial organization of the city. The history and culture of the urban planning profession. The relationship between the two. 47 2008-12-18T18:59:09Z 6200 2008-12-18T18:59:28Z 3 URBPL Human intentions regarding city building. Explorations of the intersection between urban demographic trajectories, economic globalization, and large-scale environmental change. Implications for the culture and practice of urban governance and city building. 48 2008-12-18T18:59:28Z 6220 2008-12-18T18:59:46Z 3 URBPL Land-use concepts, activities, problems, and techniques for land-use planning. 49 2008-12-18T18:59:46Z 6240 2008-12-18T19:00:58Z 3 URBPL Rationality and alternative approaches to the planning process; the scope of theory and ethics in planning; the prospects for collectively rational decision making: assorted cases and critiques; post-modern perspectives on coping with values, power, conflict, and ethical criticism. 50 2008-12-18T19:00:58Z 6260 2008-12-18T19:01:12Z 3 URBPL Case law analysis of common law, constitutional, statutory, and regulatory principles inherent in American land use planning and zoning. 51 2008-12-18T19:01:12Z 6270 2008-12-18T19:01:43Z 3 URBPL Theories of metropolitan regional development; their spatial organization; implications for land use, transportation and air quality; public policy context and options. 52 2008-12-18T19:01:43Z 6280 2008-12-18T19:02:04Z 5 URBPL Places students in a real-world planning context while providing a Westside community with planning services. Students partner with specific Westside groups to map assets and design projects that address the community’s needs. 53 Prerequisite: Final year standing in graduate program. 2008-12-18T19:02:04Z 6300 2008-12-18T19:02:49Z 3 URBPL Addresses housing issues from historical, human rights, cultural, economic, and affordability perspectives, and explores how those perspectives interconnect. 54 2008-12-18T19:02:49Z 6310 2008-12-18T19:03:07Z 3 URBPL This course reviews policies influencing urban development and redevelopment, acquaints students with basic development finance analytic techniques, identifies methods of leveraging private investment to achieve policy objectives, and assesses alternative urban development approaches. 55 2008-12-18T19:03:07Z 6320 2008-12-18T19:03:22Z 3 URBPL This course reviews the fiscal structure of sub-national governments, introduces methods of fiscal analysis based on public finance criteria, and assesses innovative fiscal policy alternatives. 56 2008-12-18T19:03:22Z 6330 2008-12-18T19:03:36Z 3 URBPL Examination of most of the major growth management systems in place in the United States at local, regional, and state levels, assessing their purposes, politics, mechanics, impacts, and outcomes. 57 2008-12-18T19:03:36Z 6340 2008-12-18T19:03:51Z 3 URBPL Planning perspective on the competition between public and private interest in land use and development. 58 2008-12-18T19:03:51Z 6350 2008-12-18T19:04:35Z 3 URBPL Graduate students should take URBPL 6350 and will be held to higher standards and/or mor work. A review of environmental impact assessment, focusing on the policies, requirements, methods, and examples from the National Environmental Policy Act, with a review of state and local approaches to environmental impact assessment. 59 Meets with GEOGR 5350 and URBPL 5350. 2008-12-18T19:04:35Z 6360 2008-12-18T19:06:47Z 3 URBPL A review of federal, state, and local environmental laws, policies and procedures as they affect planning including air, water, and hazardous waste, impact assessment, public lands, common law, and aesthetic regulation. 60 Cross listed as LAW 7632. Meets with URBPL 5360. Graduate students should take URBPL 6360 and will be held to higher standards and/or more work. 2008-12-18T19:06:47Z 6370 2008-12-18T19:07:13Z 3 URBPL Environmental policy design requires an understanding of human interactions with environmental systems. It requires an accounting of the complexities of behavior, context and policy. These complexities often produce indirect and unanticipated consequences. They yield unexpected patterns and counter-intuitive results. Students from many academic fields learn user-friendly software (STELLA) to do environmental policy simulation without proficiency in advanced mathematics. Students use computer simulations to sort out environmental complexities; transform group perceptions into simulation models; apply principles of environmental management; test policy effects and define possible pathways for future policy change. 61 Cross listed as CVEEN 6660, GEO 6340. 2008-12-18T19:07:13Z 6371 2008-12-18T19:07:39Z 3 URBPL Using a systems thinking approach to conceptualize complex problems, multi-disciplinary student teams resolve real world problems in maintaining system resiliency, stability, diversity, and sustainability. Student teams define/discover system structures, feedback loops, counter-intuitive outcomes and the unintended consequences of policy decisions. Topics of analysis include: urban growth, land use and transportation, renewable and non-renewable resources, environmental justice, and the dynamics of human administrative systems. 62 Complexity and Systems Thinking. Meets with GEO 5341. 2008-12-18T19:07:39Z 6390 2008-12-18T19:08:00Z 3 URBPL Interdisciplinary approach to theories and applications of sustainability in a variety of planning contexts. Final segment focuses on specific action plans related to sustainability. 63 2008-12-18T19:08:00Z 6400 2008-12-18T19:08:27Z 3 URBPL Multiple visualization techniques and the communication of planning concepts and design alternatives. 64 Cross listed as ARCH 6056. Meets with URBPL 5400. 2008-12-18T19:08:27Z 6410 2008-12-18T19:08:49Z 3 URBPL Review and analysis of development site design, plat map preparation, subdivision review and impact analysis. 65 Meets with ARCH 6111. 2008-12-18T19:08:49Z 6420 2008-12-18T19:09:08Z 3 URBPL A framework for preserving and promoting cultural, ecological, developmental, agricultural and recreational assets through the design of open space plans. 66 Cross listed as ARCH 6831. 2008-12-18T19:09:08Z 6430 2008-12-18T19:09:26Z 3 URBPL This course acquaints students with several technologies including geographic information systems (GIS), graphic design, visualization and presentation. The principles of GIS technology and applications of this technology to planning problems, are the basis of the course: however, other technologies are integrated to support data collection, analysis, and communication. “Hands-on” exposure to these technologies is emphasized. 67 2008-12-18T19:09:26Z 6500 2008-12-18T19:09:44Z 1.5 URBPL Interrelationship between economies and public policy that directly affect the role of planners and their services. 68 2008-12-18T19:09:44Z 6600 2008-12-18T19:09:56Z 3 URBPL Diverse views of urban land use, neighborhood development, local governments and citizen participation. Key actors and participants in the planning process. Managing the political aspects of urban change. 69 2008-12-18T19:09:56Z 6720 2008-12-18T19:10:13Z 3 URBPL Examination of current transportation policies and conditions in the U.S., the impacts those they have on other human and environmental systems, the major community and environmental influences implicit in American transportation policy, the planning processes that have led to these outcomes, and micro-scale community design features implicit in transportation system design. 70 2008-12-18T19:10:13Z 6950 2008-12-18T19:10:27Z 1 to 4 URBPL Graduate directed reading or individual/group projects as approved through program procedures. 71 2008-12-18T19:10:27Z 6954 2008-12-18T19:11:11Z 4 URBPL An internship of at least 144 hours per term with either a private planning consultancy or a public planning agency. Each internship shall be coordinated with an agency (or consultancy) based mentor through an urban planning faculty member and shall culminate in a written report on the internship product/process and an oral presentation on the internship experience. 72 2008-12-18T19:11:11Z 6960 2008-12-18T19:11:28Z 1 to 5 URBPL This course number is used to accommodate one-time courses, occasional courses, and experimental courses. Students may take more than one Special Topic course for credit. 73 2008-12-18T19:11:28Z 6970 2008-12-18T19:11:49Z 6 URBPL Each thesis in Urban Planning shall be organized under the direction of a Master’s Supervisory Committee with membership conforming to Graduate School Guidelines and presented in accordance with Graduate School Thesis Regulations. 75 2008-12-18T19:11:49Z 6971 2008-12-18T19:12:06Z 4 URBPL Each professional project shall be organized under the direction of a Project Supervisory Committee with membership conforming to Urban Planning Guidelines and presented in accordance with these same guidelines. 76 2008-12-18T19:12:06Z 6975 2008-12-18T19:12:30Z 1 URBPL Preparation for the Master of Urban Planning professional project. 77 Prerequisite: Department consent required. 2008-12-18T19:12:30Z 6985 2008-12-18T19:12:51Z 3 URBPL Continued consultation for Master’s Thesis Project Preparation. 78 Repeatable. 2008-12-18T19:12:51Z