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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Design principles and economic conditions in planning for urban physical facilities, including recreation facilities, streets, sidewalks, drainage, water supply systems, sewerage, waste treatment, and others.
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3.00 Credits
A scientific approach to understanding how energy and moisture move in buildings, and how buildings fail with respect to health and safety, durability, comfort, and affordability. While the focus is on housing, the fundamentals are applicable to all buildings.
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3.00 Credits
Methods for bringing sustainable design and construction practices into the housing industry, with an emphasis on increasing durability, comfort, and energy efficiency while reducing costs. Use of computer software for economic analysis of design improvements, ensuring code compliance, and determining HERS and energy star ratings. Prerequisite: permission of the department chairperson. Prerequisite recommended: PLAN 440.
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3.00 Credits
Planning strategies for revitalization of older residential neighborhoods and neighborhood commercial areas. Includes community organization and the role of public and private neighborhood organizations.
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3.00 Credits
Capstone seminar to explore application of theory to planning practice and management. Issues of planning ethics, citizen participation, styles and strategies for effective implementation of planning. Prerequisite: PLAN 369 or 370; PLAN 401 or 402.
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3.00 Credits
Legal tools for plan implementation, including zoning, subdivision regulations, planned unit-development regulations, and other techniques for guiding urban development while balancing community interests and private property rights.
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3.00 Credits
Strategies for revitalization of core urban areas, including case studies of successful cities. Examples include employment-based, recreation and convention-based, and residentially based revitalization.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the linkages between women and urban environments by focusing on the role played by the urban environment in facilitating/hindering women's access to economic, social, and political opportunities. Domestic and international examples are used to illustrate concepts.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the nature of the urban and regional planning process in other countries. Topics include development policies, planning strategies, institutional structures, implementation strategies, and accomplishments. Attention also paid to the applicability of these experiences to American cities.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar course examining nontraditional approaches to community planning and design. Focuses on concepts associated with the design of sustainable communities. Historical precedent, case study, and utopian alternatives are synthesized to project alternative futures for present community planning and design issues.
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