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Master Planning: Principles & Practice

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
Mo 5:30p.m. – 8:15p.m.
Wheatley W01-0012 3 $2557 (guest students)
Date
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
Time
Mo 5:30p.m. – 8:15p.m.
Location
Wheatley W01-0012
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$2557 (guest students)

Description

This course provides an introduction to the origins, evolution, and contemporary practice of comprehensive planning in the United States. The course focuses special attention on the role Smart Growth values, policies, and techniques planning professionals and local/regional planning commissioners use to integrate land use, transportation, and economic development planning in order to create more compact, walkable, connected, safe and attractive neighborhoods, cities, and regions. This course investigates emerging methods and techniques planners are using to overcome the field's traditionally siloed land use, transportation and economic development activities which has resulted in significant suburban sprawl in order to encourage the development of more compact and sustainable communities that offer a wide range of attractive and affordable housing options, high quality municipal services and facilities, convenient retail and commercial services, accessible regional employment opportunities, a variety of business, and cultural centers, maximum transportation choice, as well as opportunities to collaborate with other stakeholders to encourage more functional, sustainable, resilient and equitable patterns of development at the neighborhood, city-wide, and regional scales.

Prerequisites

UPCD 600 and UPCD 625 and UPCD 613 and UPCD 626 and UPCD 620

This course is closed for registration.

Course Details