Spring 2027

Visual Communication for Planners

Visual Communication for Planners provides a graphics foundation for communicating plans, including site plans, master plans, and cartography, within interdisciplinary planning processes.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Wenwen Cheng

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.74 GPA, 89.5% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Create visual communication strategies that lead to more focused planning conversations with stakeholders

  • Organize digital planning tools within multi-team member workflows to efficiently produce exhibits, presentations, and report documents

  • Transform 2D planning data into 3D models to better convey written policies and their impacts on the physical environment

  • Integrate emerging technology, such as virtual reality, into public engagement, analysis and planning studies

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Prerequisites

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.74 GPA, 89.5% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Site plans, master plans, comprehensive plans, design codes, cartography, and analysis maps.
  • Planning and design graphics foundations for communication and information management in interdisciplinary planning.
  • Integration of emerging technologies, such as virtual reality, into public engagement and planning studies.

Skills

  • Graphic communication techniques for planning, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and urban design using digital representation programs.
  • Creating visual communication strategies to facilitate focused planning conversations with stakeholders.
  • Transforming 2D planning data into 3D models to convey policy impacts on the physical environment.
  • Integrating emerging technologies like virtual reality into public engagement and planning studies.

Grades

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URBRPL 791 · Spring 2027

Visual Communication for Planners

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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