UMass Boston

Course Overview

Description

This course is the second part of a two-course sequence that serves as an alternative capstone option for students enrolled in the MS in Urban Planning and Community Development Program. This class offers students the opportunity to work with representatives of a non-profit and/or public planning and development agency to produce an empirically based report offering workable solutions to a critical environmental, economic, and social problem facing a local community within the Greater Boston Region. This collaborative research project will offer "best practice" planning/policy solutions to a pressing urban problem based upon careful analysis of a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research. The course will culminate in the student's production of a professional-quality planning report that is presented to and accepted by the community-based organization and or municipal agency that is the sponsor of the project. It requires students to integrate and apply planning theory, methods, and techniques they have acquired through their participation in the program to solve a challenging urban problem confronting a local community within the Greater Boston Region.

Prerequisites

UPCD 600 and UPCD 626 and UPCD 620 and UPCD 631 and UPCD 625 or UPCD 752