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3.00 Credits
This course exposes students to different theories of urban spatial structure but has a particular focus on racial and ethnic residential segregation both in America and Europe. The first part of the course attempts to provide the class with an understanding of (1) urban and economic restructuring of American cities since the 18th century, (2) theories accounting for changes in the form of metropolitan areas, and (3) approaches developed by social scientists to explain residential differentiation. The second part focuses on residential segregation, one of the most serious problems facing American and European cities.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the problems of Third World cities using documentary videos to provide vivid visual images. Videos and reading assignments are used to introduce the conditions of developing nations as well as an overview of some of the different perspectives for analyzing and addressing the problems found there. Students can expect to critically analyze both the situations depicted in the films, as well as the films themselves.
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3.00 Credits
This course uses examples from counties throughout the world to provide a global perspective of the social, cultural, political, economic and environmental forces that influence urban planning practice. Through materials presented in lectures and course readings about urban planning in various countries, students will explore the links between a city's social, political, economic, and cultural milieu, and the use of different planning approaches to successfully shape urban form.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq.: senior standing. This capstone course examines the future of states, regions, cities and neighborhoods. Concepts of and scenarios for the future are analyzed and evaluated. The orientation toward the futureis often associated with innovation. This course examines case studies of urban innovation, both its methods and dynamics, and evaluates them in terms of the values associated with the public good.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed for international students or others who seek to develop their knowledge of urban planning practice in the United States with a focus on learning about American governmental institutions. Through lectures, readings, guest presenters, field trips, videos, and student projects and papers, students will learn about the United States constitution, congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy, and the courts, political parties, interest groups, the media, public opinion, the policy making process, intergovernmental relations and federalism, the role of the states, governors, legislators, local governments, planning commissions and the like in their varied forms of governance across the United States. Students will apply the material in the course to urban planning issues and substantive areas.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
The seminar has been carefully structured to help students gain an understanding of the historical and theoretical context from which urban design has emerged. Through critique and discussion of readings the seminar will advance an informed framework for considering urban design in its traditional role as the intersection of architecture, planning, and landscape architecture, and as it is emerging as a stand-alone professional field. We will reframe urban issues and design intervention through familiarization with selected writings from urban planning and architectural theory, as well as emerging theory on landscape urbanism, and established theories on urbanism from urban sociologist, urban geographers, and economists in order to understand how the contemporary city is being shaped.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will provide students with a scientific understanding of environmental systems at the level necessary to participate in and design planning solutions to environmental issues. We will explore the range of environmental issues and problems that are interrelated with urban and regional development and management. Policy frameworks and actual legal, planning, and programmatic solutions used in cities and states around the world will be discussed, analyzed and critiqued.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Increasingly, the integration of environmental resources into the land use planning and design process holds a central role in growth management, landscape preservation, and sustainable development. The course helps the student gain a basic knowledge of landscape resources analysis, and how development can adversely impact them. The 'watershed' as a distinct geographic unit in a local government context is used to undertake a series of GIS-based analyses to describe and evaluate the landscape and to conduct suitability analyses for land use planning purposes. Familiarization with ArcGIS software will be helpful.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course presents an overview of a major city in a developing country and presents its demography, economy, sectoral composition and environmental issues and problems. A realistic and detailed data set for such a city is utilized for discussion and analysis. Water supply, drainage, water purification, sewage and solid waste disposal are some of the topics that are explored. Lectures and discussions are complemented by a major student exercise, conducted in groups. The exercise is the centerpiece of the course and simulates an attempt to deal with urban environmental problems comprehensively within the context of the decentralization of responsibility.
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on comparative analyses of growth and development of urban forms from prehistory to the present time. It is designed to give students of urban design, architecture and planning, and students interested in urban phenomena and its physical structure, an understanding of impact and import of urban forms over time. The approach taken will be of morphological in nature. Perspectives used will not be historical in character, rather, we will approach form and structure as in an organism regarded as a whole. Attempts will be made to examine through image presentations, an understanding of these structures as fully as possible. The course will compare and contrast urban forms across cultures and regions. For each set of class periods we will key in on a specific "urban form" prototype. Discussions will draw from several cities to explore these central concepts of city forms and structure.
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