Methods in Urban Planning

Course Description

This course explores the practical methods used in urban planning from policy analysis to survey development and administration to comprehensive plan making. While many of your initial classes discuss theory and purpose (the why) and others emphasize products and applications (the what), this class provides skill-building in the connecting those two things (the how). Students will be expected to read texts that describe the purpose of various planning analyses, examine the supporting data and research, and explore common approaches to achieving various goals. This class emphasizes the physical practice of finding/making data, doing analysis, and documenting for various public and semi-public audiences \"limiting `lecture time\" in lieu of practice and doing. As such, students will investigate a variety of urban planning problems and questions by completing tasks such as: analyzing and summarizing research and white-paper reports, searching for and acquiring data, analyzing and graphically displaying data, and documenting results in both inform and formal ways. A portion of this class emphasizes data, methods, and tools used specifically to support comprehensive plan making (e.g., population forecasting, demographic analysis, housing analysis, growth impact analysis, impact fee estimation).

Code

PLG 514

Credits

4

Subject

Planning