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Doctoral

Urban Planning PhD

University of California, Los Angeles Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs 133 courses

About This Program

Urban Planning PhD is a Doctoral program offered by Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs at University of California, Los Angeles across 133 courses.

Degree Requirements

Urban Planning Graduate Courses

Graduate courses UCLA's General Catalog lists for this department. This is not a degree plan; requirements are set by the program.

Code Course Title Credits
URBN PL 202 Land Use 4 or 6
URBN PL 202A Land Use 3 or 4
URBN PL 202B Land Use 1 or 2
URBN PL 203B Seminar: Housing Segregation, Housing Discrimination, and Evolution of Public Policy 1 to 8
URBN PL 205A MURP Comprehensive Examination: Applied Planning Research Project I 4
URBN PL 205B MURP Comprehensive Examination: Applied Planning Research Project II 4
URBN PL 206 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 4
URBN PL 207 Applied Microeconomics for Urban Planning 4
URBN PL 209 Special Topics in Planning Theory 4
URBN PL 211 Law and Quality of Urban Life 4
URBN PL 212 International/Comparative Planning Workshop 2 or 4
URBN PL 213 Urban Data Science 4
URBN PL 214 Neighborhood Analysis 4
URBN PL 217A Comprehensive Planning Project 4
URBN PL 217B Comprehensive Planning Project 4
URBN PL 219 Special Topics in Built Environment 4
URBN PL 220A Quantitative Analysis in Urban Planning I 4
URBN PL 220B Quantitative Analysis in Urban Planning II 4
URBN PL 221 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Data Science 4
URBN PL 222A Introduction to Planning History and Theory 4
URBN PL 222B Advanced Planning Theory: Production of Space 4
URBN PL 222C Advanced Planning Theory: Social Life and Difference 4
URBN PL 223 Critical Race Studies 4
URBN PL 224 Racial Justice and Planning 4
URBN PL 225 Planning in Black Communities 4
URBN PL 228A Visual Communication Skills 2
URBN PL 228B Advanced Visual Communication 4
URBN PL 229 Special Topics in Planning Methods 4
URBN PL 230 Political Economy of Cities and Development 4
URBN PL 232 Disaster Management and Response 4
URBN PL 233 Urban Politics in the Global South 4
URBN PL 235A Urbanization in Developing World 4
URBN PL 235B Civil Society, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Social Movements in Developing World 4
URBN PL 236C Advanced Workshop on Regions in World Economy 4
URBN PL 237A Sectoral Analysis 4
URBN PL 237B Urban and Regional Economic Development Applications 4
URBN PL 238 Global Labor Markets 4
URBN PL 239 Special Topics in Regional and International Development 4
URBN PL 240A Local Government 4
URBN PL 240B Local Government 2
URBN PL 241 Policing through Bureaucracy: Encounters with City and State 4
URBN PL 242 Poverty and Inequality 4
URBN PL 243 Urban Futures: Space, Ecology, Society 4
URBN PL 244 Urban Poverty and Planning 4
URBN PL 245 Urban Public Finance 4
URBN PL 247 Planning for Multiple Publics 4
URBN PL 249 Special Topics in Transportation Policy and Planning 4
URBN PL 252 Transportation and Land Use: Transportation and Urban Design Studio 4
URBN PL 254 Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning 4
URBN PL 257 Transportation and Economic Outcomes 4
URBN PL 260 Environmental Politics and Governance 4
URBN PL 260A Environmental Assessment: Urban Design 4
URBN PL 260B Green Urban Studio: Designing Living Neighborhoods 4
URBN PL 261 Land-Use Planning: Processes, Critiques, and Innovations 4
URBN PL 262 Urban Environmental Problems: Water Resources 4
URBN PL 263 Waste, Environment, and Society 4
URBN PL 264 Environmental Law 4 or 6
URBN PL 264A Environmental Law 3 or 4
URBN PL 264B Environmental Law 1 or 2
URBN PL 265B Urban Environments and Socioecologies 4
URBN PL 265C Food Systems 4
URBN PL 269 Special Topics in Environmental Analysis and Policy 4
URBN PL 271A Community Economic Development 4
URBN PL 272B Advanced Real Estate Studio 4
URBN PL 273 Site Planning 4
URBN PL 274 Introduction to Physical Planning 4
URBN PL 276B Urban Housing 1 to 8
URBN PL 277 Historic Preservation: Principles and Practices 4
URBN PL 278 More Jobs, Better Jobs: Work and Policy 4
URBN PL 279 Seminar: Public Space 4
URBN PL 280 Affordable Housing Development 4
URBN PL 281 Introduction to History of Built Environment in U.S. 4
URBN PL 282 Urban Design: Theories, Paradigms, Applications 4
URBN PL 283 Community Development, Organizing, and Engagement 4
URBN PL 289 Sprawl and Smart Growth 4
URBN PL 294 Housing in Developing Countries: Policy Objectives and Options 4
URBN PL 297 Current Issues in Urban Planning 1 to 4
URBN PL 298 Special Topics in Emerging Planning Issues 2 or 4
URBN PL 496 Field Projects 4
URBN PL 596 MA Research in Planning 2 to 4
URBN PL 597 Preparation for MA Comprehensive Examination or PhD Qualifying Examinations 4 to 12
URBN PL 598 Preparation for MA Thesis in Urban Planning 4
URBN PL 599 PhD Dissertation Research in Planning 2 to 12
URBN PL C237C Southern California Regional Economy 4
URBN PL C251 Parking and City 4
URBN PL C266 Global Environment and Development: Problems and Issues 4
URBN PL C271B Labor and Economic Development 4
URBN PL C284 Looking at Los Angeles 4
URBN PL M201 Theories of Architecture 4
URBN PL M203 Housing Segregation, Housing Discrimination, and Evolution of Public Policy 1 to 8
URBN PL M203A Seminar: Housing Segregation, Housing Discrimination, and Evolution of Public Policy 1 to 8
URBN PL M204 Research Design and Methods for Social Policy 4
URBN PL M208A Introduction to Luskin PhD Research 4
URBN PL M208B Logic of Inference and Causation 4
URBN PL M208C Applied Research Design: Dissertation and Thesis Proposal 4
URBN PL M208D Introduction to Qualitative Research 4
URBN PL M210A Special Topics in Public Affairs 4
URBN PL M210B Comparative Perspective on States, Markets, and Civil Society 4
URBN PL M215 Spatial Statistics 4
URBN PL M216 Current Issues in Food Studies 4
URBN PL M231 Global Public Affairs: Governing in Interconnected World 4
URBN PL M234A Development Theory 4
URBN PL M234B Ecological Issues in Planning 4
URBN PL M234C Resource-Based Development 4
URBN PL M236A Theories of Regional Economic Development I 4
URBN PL M236B Globalization and Regional Development 4
URBN PL M240 Local Government 2 to 6
URBN PL M246 Poverty, Poor, and Welfare Reform 4
URBN PL M250 Transportation and Land Use: Urban Form 4
URBN PL M253 Travel Behavior Analysis 4
URBN PL M255 Shared Mobility Policy and Planning 4
URBN PL M256 Transportation Economics, Finance, and Policy 4
URBN PL M258 Transportation and Climate Change 4
URBN PL M265 Environmentalisms: Climate Dimensions and Politics Past, Present, Future 4
URBN PL M267 Environmental and Resource Economics and Policy 4
URBN PL M268 Policy Analysis of Emerging Environmental Technologies 4
URBN PL M270 Homelessness: Housing and Social Service Issues 4
URBN PL M272 Introduction to Market-Rate Real Estate Development and Finance 4
URBN PL M275 Community Development and Housing Policies: Roles of State, Civil Society, and Nonprofits 4
URBN PL M276A Urban Housing 1 to 8
URBN PL M285 Built Environment and Health 4
URBN PL M287 Politics, Power, and Philanthropy 4
URBN PL M288 Nonprofit Organizations and Philanthropy: Management and Policy 4
URBN PL M291 Introduction to Sustainable Architecture and Community Planning 4
URBN PL M292 Elements of Urban Design 4
URBN PL M293 Politics, Ideology, and Design 4
URBN PL M295 Introduction to Urban Humanities 4
URBN PL M296 Housing Policy and Planning 4
URBN PL M297B Current Issues in Public Affairs 2
URBN PL M297F Career Planning and Management 2
URBN PL M404 Joint Planning/Architecture Studio 4
URBN PL M470 Improving Worker Health: Social Movements, Policy Debates, and Public Health 4
URBN PL M495 Teaching Luskin Public Affairs 2

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