Urban and Regional Planning

This course examines energy markets using economic analytic tools, covering supply from fossil and renewable sources, demand across key sectors, and electricity as an intermediate market to understand global resource allocation.

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An introductory overview of the real estate process covering development, permitting, transactions, economics, financing, valuation, leasing, and management.

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Seminar II for planning field work, analysis, and reporting in the Water Resources Management practicum.

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Focuses on the study of the allocation of scarce resources across space. Uses economic methods to analyze urban real estate. Topics covered include the determinants of real estate values, the location decisions of households and firms, land use, urban growth and agglomeration, real estate pricing, cycles, development, housing market and policies, and sustainable development.

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Planning for Resilience to Natural Hazards provides theoretical and practical approaches to planning for community resilience, examining disaster cycles and mitigation strategies.

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Energy Analysis and Policy Capstone is an interdisciplinary course where students apply energy knowledge to a real-world client analysis project, integrating technical, economic, political, and social factors in decision-making.

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Introduction to the City investigates urbanization processes and contemporary city forms, emphasizing spatial and social segregation by race, class, ethnicity, and gender.

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Explores various urban empirical regularities and the theories which explain them.

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Land Use Controls examines limitations on private land use through nuisance law, covenants, and public actions like zoning, master plans, and urban redevelopment.

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Public Management examines the role of administration in American government, focusing on organizational problems, bureaucracy, control mechanisms, and how public policy emerges from the administrative process.

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Urban Economics analyzes spatial relationships in the urban economy, covering land, labor, and housing markets, transport, governance, and regional models with an interdisciplinary focus.

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WELCOME TO YOUR URBAN FUTURE explores equitable and sustainable urban futures. Students develop plans for positive change in areas like community food systems, water conservation, transportation, housing, and urban nature.

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Explores special issues or problems in urban planning through critical thinking, application of planning principles, and integration of multidimensional factors.

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Investigates multi-modal transportation, travel behavior, and urban form at multiple scales, considering public health, environmental, economic, and social equity outcomes.

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Survey of site planning theory and methods, including standards for municipal review of site plans and topics like vehicle circulation, stormwater management, and signage.

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Independent study as arranged with a faculty member.

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Plans and improves US metropolitan markets and food systems, covering public markets, community food security, urban agriculture, and public health impacts.

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Planning Thought and Practice analyzes planning cases within planning history, decision-making models, and planner roles, exploring subnational planning and regional development in developing countries.

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

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Examines how the legal system influences community planning, covering the institutional framework for planning and legal authority for tools that create healthy, sustainable communities.

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Housing and Public Policy examines issues in housing program design's production, financial, and consumption sectors, comparing US, European, and Third World housing and public policy programs.

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A seminar for group review of thesis projects, featuring individual reports on successive stages of work in research and design.

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Individual mentored research and study for completing theses, as arranged with a faculty member.

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Independent work in Urban and Regional Planning, consisting of independent study as arranged with a faculty member.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources