SITE PLANNING

URBRPL 611

Focusing on three basic components of the built environment (buildings, transportation systems, and open spaces), addresses the forces that shape land use and transportation patterns, the effects of urban form on public health, safety, and welfare, and ways that communities can make their built environments more livable and environmentally sustainable.

URBRPL 741

Evolution of contemporary urban and regional planning thought. Major conceptual dilemmas in theory and practice. Emerging trends in planning, e.g., forecasting and futurism.

URBRPL 791

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.

URBRPL 590

Examination of special issues or problems in urban and regional planning and development, such as mineral development in Wisconsin or fringe development in Madison. Topic and faculty vary.

URBRPL 731

Broad coverage of regional planning--basic concepts, history, influences of the political, economic, and social environment, techniques of analysis and substantive tasks and problems in preparing regional plans.