VISUAL COMMUNICATION FOR PLANNERS

URBRPL 791

Course Description

Visual communication in planning addresses the communication of plans - specifically in the form of site plans, master plans, comprehensive plans, illustrative design codes, cartography, analyses maps, among other. Provides a planning and design graphics foundation to help realize the procedures in communication and information management within today's interdisciplinary planning process. Develop skills in graphic communication from techniques currently used in the planning, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture and urban design fields and review several digital graphic representation programs as a means of developing a planning graphics toolkit.

Prerequisties

Graduate/professional standing

Satisfies

URBRPL 912

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average

3.88

0.25% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

2.13% from Historical

A Rate

76.92%

-14.13% from Historical

Class Size

-18.75% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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