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Community Growth and Land Use Planning

3-0-9 units · Graduate

Seminar, workshops, and fieldwork on strategies to use municipal land use regulations to shape urban growth and equity. Practicum workshop builds skills in civic engagement, policy-relevant research, zoning regulations, and physical design and planning. The workshop begins with implementation of qualitative and quantitative research into the existing built environment, social, economic, and political context. It continues with the planning, design, and implementation of community engagement strategies to shape goals and vision for the projects. The practicum then explores land use scenarios, design and innovative zoning and regulatory techniques, to improve equity in the areas of housing, environment, economic development, mobility, and the public realm. Projects arranged with small teams serving municipal clients experiencing pressures of urban growth and change in Massachusetts. Preference to MCP second year students.

Fall 2010

Topics

  • Course introduction
  • Community planning project introduced
  • The neighborhood unit: Historical perspective and evolution
  • Visioning the future of places
  • Plan-making at the community level
  • Zoning controls: The basics
  • Land use planning, regulation, and property rights
  • Thwarting sprawl; smart growth and the evolution of suburbia
  • Street design and traffic calming
  • Project work day
  • Area economic development planning: Tools and prospects
  • Project work day-discussion/debriefing
  • Community design, new urbanism, and alternative regulatory approaches. What’s applicable to the Needham Street project?
  • Project work day: Discussion/debriefing
  • Landscape planning, history and current approaches
  • Optional project work day
  • Ecological considerations and sustainability
  • The mobility challenge for planning; transit-oriented and infill development
  • Client meeting with project teams
  • Project work day (cont.)
  • The role of planning and the planner in society: Class wrap-up and synthesis
  • Final plan work day
  • Submission of final plan reports

Readings

Fall 2006

Topics

  • Course Introduction
  • Community Planning Project Introduced
  • Discussion of Client Project
  • Land Use Planning and Regulation - An Overview
  • Zoning Controls - The Basics
  • Plan-making at the Community Level
  • Imaging Medford’s Riverfront
  • Visioning
  • The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues
  • Incentive - Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing Affordability
  • The Neighborhood Unit Historical Perspective
  • Neighborhood Economic Development Planning: Tools and Prospects
  • Community Design, New Urbanism, and Alternative Regulatory Approaches. What’s Applicable to the Medford Project?
  • Project Workshop Day
  • Landscape Planning History and Current Approaches
  • Ecological Considerations and Waterfronts
  • Thwarting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and the Evolution of Suburbia
  • The Mobility Challenge for Planning, Transit-oriented and Infill Development
  • Street Design and Traffic Calming
  • Client Meeting with Project Teams
  • The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis
  • Submission of Final Plan Reports

Readings

  • Kaiser, Edward J., and David R. Godschalk. “Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree.” Journal of the American Planning Association 61, no. 3 (1995): 365-384.
    Listed reading
  • Godschalk, David. “Land Use Planning Challenges: Coping with Conflicts in Visions of Sustainable Development and Livable Communities.” Journal of the American Planning Association 70, no. 1 (2004): 5-13.
    Listed reading
  • Jacobs, Harvey M. “Fighting over Land: America’s Legacy… America’s Future?” Journal of the American Planning Association 65, no. 2 (1999): 41-149.
    Listed reading
  • Teitz, Michael B. “Reflections and Research on the U.S. Experience.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges 1950 - 2000 . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin and Bish Sanyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, 2000, pp. 275-304. ISBN: 0882851667.
    Listed reading
  • So, Frank S., and Judith Getzels, eds. “Zoning.” Chapter 15 in The Practice of Local Government Planning . Washington, DC: International City Management Association, 1979, pp. 416-443. ISBN: 0873260775.
    Listed reading
  • Hutton, David H. “Zoning a la Carte.” Planning 72, no. 1 (2006): 30-31.
    Listed reading
  • Garvin, Alexander. “Land Use Regulations.” Chapter 16 in The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 356-372. ISBN: 0071373675.
    Listed reading
  • Thomas, June Manning, and Marsha Ritzdorf, eds. Urban Planning and the African American Community: In the Shadows . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997. ISBN: 0803972342.
    Listed reading
  • Neuman, Michael. “Does Planning Need the Plan?” Journal of the American Planning Association 64, no. 2 (1998): 208-220.
    Listed reading
  • Baer, William C. “General Plan Evaluation Criteria: An Approach to Making Better Plans.” Journal of the American Planning Association 63, no. 3 (1997): 329-344.
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Lynch, Kevin. “The Image of the Environment.” Chapter 1 in The Image of the City . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960, pp. 1-13. ISBN: 0262620014. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Jacobs, Allan B. “Making Great Streets.” Chapter 4 in Great Streets . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 269-308. ISBN: 0262600234. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Klein, William R. “Citizen Participation: Whose Vision Is It?” In Planning and Community Equity . Chicago, IL: American Planning Association Planners Press, 1994, pp. 159-172. ISBN: 188482904X.
    Listed reading
  • Naylor, Amy R. “Citizen Participation in Brunswick, Maine.” American Planning Association, Planners’ Casebook (Spring 1994): 1-8.
    Listed reading
  • Synder, Ken. “Putting Democracy Front and Center.” Planning 72, no. 7 (2006): 24-29.
    Listed reading
  • Shipley, Robert, and Ross Newkirk. “Visioning: Did Anybody See Where it Came from?” Journal of Planning Literature 12, no. 4 (1998): 407-414.
    Listed reading
  • Tauxe, Caroline S. “Marginalizing Public Participation in Local Planning: An Ethnographic Account.” Journal of the American Planning Association 61, no. 4 (1995): 471-481.
    Listed reading
  • Chinitz, Benjamin. “Good for the Town, Bad for the Nation?” Journal of the American Planning Association 56, no. 1 (1990): 3-8.
    Listed reading
  • Fischel, William A. “Growth Management Reconsidered: Good for the Town, Bad for the Nation?” Journal of the American Planning Association 57, no. 3 (1991): 341-344.
    Listed reading
  • Nelson, Arthur C., and James B. Duncan, et al. “The Purposes of Growth Management.” Chapter 1 in Growth Management Principles and Practices . Chicago, IL: American Planning Association, 1995, pp. 1-18. ISBN: 091828693X.
    Listed reading
  • Flint, Anthony. “Bourne Panel at Odds on Project.” The Boston Globe, July 22, 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Salkin, Patricia E. “Barriers to Affordable Housing: Are Land Use Controls the Scapegoat?” Land Use Law and Zoning Digest 45, no. 4 (1993): 3-7.
    Listed reading
  • Keene, John C. “Social Equity and Metropolitan Growth.” In Planning for a New Century: The Regional Agenda . Edited by Jonathan Barnett. Washington DC: Island Press, 2001, pp. 49-62. ISBN: 1559638060.
    Listed reading
  • Alexander, Frank S. “Inherent Tensions between Home Rule and Regional Planning.” Wake Forest Law Review 539 (2000): 539-561.
    Listed reading
  • Wheeler, Stephen M. “The New Regionalism: Characteristics of an Emerging Movement.” Journal of the American Planning Association 68, no. 3 (2002): 267-278.
    Listed reading
  • Porter, Douglas R. “Inclusionary Zoning.” Urban Land 63, no. 1 (2004): 27-31.
    Listed reading
  • Downs, Anthony. “Break Down Those Barriers.” Planning 71, no. 9 (2005): 20-23.
    Listed reading
  • White, S. Mark. “Affirmative Measures: Using Land-Use Controls to Provide Affordable Housing.” Chapter 2 in Affordable Housing . Chicago, IL: American Planning Association, 1992, pp. 17-39.
    Listed reading
  • Jaffe, Martin. “Performance Zoning: A Reassessment.” Land Use Law 45, no. 3 (1993): 3-9.
    Listed reading
  • Porter, Douglas R., Patrick L. Phillips, and Terry J. Lassar. “Introduction to Flexible Zoning.” Chapter 1 in Flexible Zoning and How It Works . Washington, DC: The Urban Land Institute, 1988, pp. 3-14. ISBN: 0874206863.
    Listed reading
  • Langdon, Philip. “The Not-So-Secret Code.” Planning 72, no. 1 (2006): 24-29.
    Listed reading
  • Baker, Brian. “Affordable Housing Conundrum.” Urban Land 65, no. 5 (2006): 54-58.
    Listed reading
  • McCarron, John. “Preserving Affordable Housing.” Urban Land 65, no. 1 (2006): 96-99.
    Listed reading
  • Staley, Samuel, and Eric R. Claeys. “Is the Future of Development Regulation Based in the Past? Toward a Market-Oriented, Innovation Friendly Framework.” Journal of Urban Planning and Development 131, no. 4 (2005): 202-213.
    Listed reading
  • Garvin, Alexander. “Land Use Regulations.” Chapter 16 in The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 372-381. ISBN: 0071373675.
    Listed reading
  • Kendig, Lane, Susan Connor, Cranston Byrd, and Judy Heyman. “The Concept of Performance Zoning.” Part One in Performance Zoning . Washington, DC: American Planning Association, 1980, pp. 3-50. ISBN: 0918286182.
    Listed reading
  • Kayden, Jerold. “Using and Misusing Law to Design the Public Realm.” In Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America . Edited by Eran Ben-Joseph and Terry S. Szold. New York, NY: Rutledge, 2005. ISBN: 0415948746.
    Listed reading
  • Thomas, June. “Neighborhood Planning: Uses of Oral History.” Journal of Planning History 2, no. 1 (2004): 50-70.
    Listed reading
  • Knack, Ruth Eckdish. “Dense, Denser, Denser Still.” Planning 68, no. 8 (2002): 4-9.
    Listed reading
  • Pawlukiewicz, Michael. “Embracing Density.” Urban Land 61, no. 7 (2002): 18-20.
    Listed reading
  • Fader, Steven. Density by Design: New Directions in Residential Development . 2nd ed. Washington DC: Urban Land Institute, 2000, pp. 1-19. ISBN: 0874208335.
    Listed reading
  • Salvesen, David. “The Making of Place.” Urban Land 61, no. 7 (2002): 36-41.
    Listed reading
  • Kennedy, Maureen, and Paul Leonard. Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices . Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Bergsman, Steve. “Community Renewal: Activating Chicago’s Washington Park.” Urban Land 63, no. 10 (2004): 104-107.
    Listed reading
  • Seidman, Karl F. Revitalizing Commerce for American Cities: A Practitioner’s Guide to Urban Main Street Programs . The Fannie Mae Foundation, September 2004. ( PDF - 1.8MB ) ↗
    Listed reading
  • Williams, Brian. “Designing a Downtown.” Planning 70, no. 11 (2004): 20 -23.
    Listed reading
  • Ellis, Cliff. “The New Urbanism: Critiques and Rebuttals.” Journal of Urban Design 7, no. 3 (2002): 261-291.
    Listed reading
  • Nasar, Jack L. “Does Neotraditional Development Build Community?” Journal of Planning Education and Research 23, no. 1 (2003): 58-68.
    Listed reading
  • Mandel, Charles. “It Fakes a Village.” THIS Magazine (May/June 1997): 13-16.
    Listed reading
  • Schmitz, Adrienne. “The New Suburbia.” Urban Land 63, no. 5 (2004): 52-57.
    Listed reading
  • Duany, Andrés, and David Brain. “Regulating as if Humans Matter: The Transect and Post-Suburban Planning.” In Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America . Edited by Eran Ben-Joseph and Terry S. Szold. New York, NY: Rutledge, 2005. ISBN: 0415948746.
    Listed reading
  • Lopez, Guillermo. “Public Space Design.” Urban Land 65, no. 3 (2006): 60-64.
    Listed reading
  • Berkowitz, Ellen. “Toward a New Discourse on Mixed-Use Development.” Urban Land 65, no. 1 (2006): 99-101.
    Listed reading
  • Center for Watershed Protection. “Smart Site Practices for Redevelopment and Infill Projects Redevelopment.” Ellicott City, MD: Center for Watershed Protection, October 2001. ( PDF ) ↗
    Listed reading
  • Rishbeth, Clare. “Ethnic Minority Groups and the Design of Public Open Space: An Inclusive Landscape.” Landscape Research 26, no. 4 (2001): 351-366.
    Listed reading
  • Fleming, Nancy L. “Urban Rivers Reborn.” Urban Land 64, no. 5 (2005): 111-116.
    Listed reading
  • Tarnay, Stella, and Ed McMahon. “Toward Green Urbanism.” Urban Land 64, no. 6 (2005): 54-59.
    Listed reading
  • Enlow, Clair. “Planning-Rethinking Streets as Parks-Seattle’s Open Space Strategy Shifts its Emphasis Away from Traditional Parks to an Evolving “Urban Ecosystem” that Focuses on City Streets.” Landscape Architecture 92 (2002): 52-58.
    Listed reading
  • Dinola, Ralph, and Katrina Shum-Miller. “Getting behind the Wheel.” Urban Land 65, no. 6 (2006): 70-75.
    Listed reading
  • Kreisler, Barbara. “Moving beyond Green.” Urban Land 65, no. 6 (2006): 76-81.
    Listed reading
  • Durrant, Steve, and Joe Biernat. “A River Blueprint.” Urban Land 60, no. 11/12 (2001): 70-75.
    Listed reading
  • Calkins, Meg. “Return of the River” Landscape Architecture (July 2001): 74-83.
    Listed reading
  • Dramov, Boris. “Successful Waterfront Design Principles.” Urban Land (June 1997): 35.
    Listed reading
  • Martin, Frank Edgerton. “Making the River Connection Back to the Water’s Edge.” Landscape Architecture (February 2001): 62-67 and 88-91.
    Listed reading
  • Katz, Bruce. “The Permanent Campaign.” Urban Land 62, no. 5 (2003): 44-52.
    Listed reading
  • Downs, Anthony. “Smart Growth: Why We Discuss It More than We Do It.” Journal of the American Planning Association 71, no. 4 (2005): 367-378.
    Listed reading
  • Krieger, Alex. “Seven Wise (Though Possibly Impractical) Goals for Smart Growth Advocates.” In Smart Growth: Form and Consequences . Edited by Szold and Carbonell. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2002, pp. 102-109. ISBN: 1558441514.
    Listed reading
  • Miara, Jim. “Fueling Sprawl.” Urban Land 59, no. 5 (2000): 78-79 and 109.
    Listed reading
  • Conte, Christopher R. “The Boys of Sprawl.” Governing (May 2000): 28-33.
    Listed reading
  • Blaesser, Brian W. “Growth Management: A Developer’s Perspective.” Development Magazine 29, no. 3 (1998): 6 and 76.
    Listed reading
  • Downs, Anthony. “The Basic Situation.” Part One in Stuck in Traffic . Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1992, pp. 7-22. ISBN: 0815719299.
    Listed reading
  • Frank, Lawrence D., and Robert T. Dunphy. “Smart Growth and Transportation.” Urban Land 57, no. 5 (1998): 58-63 and 76-77.
    Listed reading
  • Cervero, Robert. The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry . Washington, DC: Island Press, 1998, pp. 72-105. ISBN: 1559635916.
    Listed reading
  • Calthorpe, Peter. “Guidelines.” Section in The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream . New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993, pp. 41-49. ISBN: 1878271687.
    Listed reading
  • Tumlin, Jeffery, and Adam Millard-Ball. “How to Make Transit-Oriented Development Work.” Planning 69, no. 5 (2003): 14-19.
    Listed reading
  • Strauss, Mark E., and Lawrence M. Rosenbloom. “Making TOD Real.” Urban Land 63, no. 5 (2004): 14 and 17.
    Listed reading
  • Flint, Anthony. “Frustrating Development.” The Boston Globe, June 7, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • McCann, Barbara. “Complete the Streets!” Planning 71, no. 5 (2005): 18-23.
    Listed reading
  • State of North Carolina. Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) Guidelines . Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, August 2000.
    Listed reading
  • Knack, Ruth Eckdish. “Drive Nicely.” Planning 64, no. 12 (1998): 12-15.
    Listed reading
  • Knapp, Keith K. “Traffic-Calming Basics.” Civil Engineering 70, no. 1 (2000): 46-49.
    Listed reading
  • Szold, Terry. “Merging Place-Making and Process in Local Practice.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges 1950 - 2000 . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin and Bish Sanyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, 2000, pp. 36-42. ISBN: 0882851659.
    Listed reading
  • Ben-Joseph, Eran. “The Future of Standards and Rules in Shaping Place: Re-engineering the Urban Genetic Code.” ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development 130, no. 2 (2004): 67-74.
    Listed reading
  • Glazer, Nathan. “The Public’s Image of the Profession.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges 1950 - 2000 . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin and Bish Sanyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, 2000, pp. 224-230. ISBN: 0882851659.
    Listed reading
  • Bartholomew, Keith. “The Evolution of Non-Governmental Land Use Planning Organizations.” Journal of the American Planning Association 65, no. 4 (1999): 357-363.
    Listed reading
  • Birch, Eugenie Ladner. “Practitioners and the Art of Planning.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 20, no. 4 (2001): 407-422.
    Listed reading
Fall 2005

Topics

  • Course Introduction
  • Community Planning Project Introduced
  • Discussion of Client Project
  • Land use Planning and Regulation - An Overview
  • Zoning Controls - The Basics
  • Plan-making at the Community Level
  • Imaging Centralville
  • Visioning
  • The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues
  • Zoning Innovations
  • Dry Run - Presentation to George
  • Work Day - Evening Presentation at Lowell
  • The Neighborhood Unit and Community Design
  • Project Workshop Day
  • Street Design
  • Traffic Calming
  • Thwarting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and the Evolution of Suburbia
  • The Mobility Challenge for Planning
  • Ecological Considerations
  • More on Incentive-Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing Affordability
  • Client Meeting with Project Teams
  • The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis
  • Submission of Final Plan Reports

Readings

  • Kaiser, Edward J., and David R. Godschalk. “Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree.” Journal of the American Planning Association 61, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 365-384.
    Listed reading
  • Godschalk, David. “Land Use Planning Challenges: Coping With Conflicts in Visions of Sustainable Development and Livable Communities.” Journal of the American Planning Association 70, no. 1 (Winter 2004): 5-13.
    Listed reading
  • Jacobs, Harvey M. “Fighting over Land: America’s Legacy…America’s Future?” Journal of the American Planning Association 65, no. 2 (Spring 1999): 141-149.
    Listed reading
  • Teitz, Michael B. “Reflections and Research on the U.S. Experience.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges 1950 - 2000 . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin and Bish Sanyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, 2000, pp. 275-304. ISBN: 0882851659.
    Listed reading
  • So, Frank S., and Judith Getzels, eds. “Zoning.” Chapter 15 in The Practice of Local Government Planning . Washington, DC: International City Management Association in cooperation with the American Planning Association, 1979, pp. 416-443. ISBN: 0873260201.
    Listed reading
  • Knack, Ruth Eckdish. “Return to Euclid.” Planning (May 1997): 4-8.
    Listed reading
  • Foster, Kelleann, et al. “Zoning on the Line.” Planning (November 1996): 10-13.
    Listed reading
  • Garvin, Alexander. “Land Use Regulations.” Chapter 16 in The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 356-372. ISBN: 0070229198.
    Listed reading
  • Silver, Christopher. “The Racial Origins of Zoning.” From Part One in Urban Planning and the African American Community: In the Shadows . Edited by June Manning Thomas and Marsha Ritzdorf. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997, pp. 23-42. ISBN: 0803972342.
    Listed reading
  • Ritzdorf, Marsha. “Locked Out of Paradise: Contemporary Exclusionary Zoning, the Supreme Court, African Americans, 1970 to the Present.” In Urban Planning and the African American Community: In the Shadows . Edited by June Manning Thomas and Marsha Ritzdorf. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997, pp. 43-57. ISBN: 0803972342.
    Listed reading
  • Neuman, Michael. “Does Planning Need the Plan?” Journal of the American Planning Association 64, no. 2 (Spring 1998): 208-220.
    Listed reading
  • Baer, William C. “General Plan Evaluation Criteria: An Approach to Making Better Plans.” Journal of the American Planning Association 63, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 329-344.
    Listed reading
  • View student work from Fall 2003 . ↗
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Lynch, Kevin. “The Image of the Environment.” Chapter 1 in Image of the City . Cambridge, MA: The Technology Press and Harvard University Press, 1960, pp. 1-13. ISBN: 9780262620017. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Jacobs, Allan B. “Making Great Streets.” Chapter 4 in Great Streets . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 269-308. ISBN: 9780262600231. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Klein, Bill. “Citizen Participation: Whose Vision is It?” American Planning Association, Agenda for America’s Communities (May 1993): 1-12.
    Listed reading
  • Naylor, Amy R. “Citizen Participation in Brunswick, Maine.” American Planning Association, Planners’ Casebook (Spring 1994): 1-8.
    Listed reading
  • Shipley, Robert, and Ross Newkirk. “Visioning: Did Anybody See Where it Came From?” Journal of Planning Literature 12, no. 4 (May 1998): 407-414.
    Listed reading
  • Tauxe, Caroline S. “Marginalizing Public Participation in Local Planning: An Ethnographic Account.” Journal of the American Planning Association 61, no. 4 (Autumn 1995): 471-481.
    Listed reading
  • Chinitz, Benjamin. “Good for the Town, Bad for the Nation?” Journal of the American Planning Association 56, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 3-8.
    Listed reading
  • Fischel, William A. “Growth Management Reconsidered: Good for the Town, Bad for the Nation?” Journal of the American Planning Association 57, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 341-344.
    Listed reading
  • Nelson, Arthur C., and James B. Duncan, et al. “The Purposes of Growth Management.” Chapter 1 in Growth Management Principles and Practices . Chicago, IL: Planners Press, American Planning Association, 1995, pp. 1-18. ISBN: 0918286921.
    Listed reading
  • Flint, Anthony. “Bourne Panel at Odds on Project.” Boston Globe (July 22, 2001): B1, B4.
    Listed reading
  • Salkin, Patricia E. “Barriers to Affordable Housing: Are Land Use Controls the Scapegoat?” Land Use Law & Zoning Digest 45, no. 4 (April 1993): 3-7.
    Listed reading
  • Keene, John C. “Social Equity and Metropolitan Growth.” In Planning for a New Century: The Regional Agenda. Edited by Jonathan Barnett. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001, pp. 49-62. ISBN: 1559638060.
    Listed reading
  • Alexander, Frank S. “Inherent Tensions Between Home Rule and Regional Planning.” Wake Forest Law Review . Fall 2000, pp. 539-561. Winston-Salem.
    Listed reading
  • Wheeler, Stephen M. “The New Regionalism: Characteristics of an Emerging Movement.” Journal of the American Planning Association 68, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 267-278.
    Listed reading
  • Hinshaw, Mark. “Rezone or Dezone?” Planning (June 2000): 4-9.
    Listed reading
  • Porter, Douglas R., Patrick L. Phillips, and Terry J. Lassar. “Introduction to Flexible Zoning.” Chapter 1 in Flexible Zoning and How It Works . Washington, DC: The Urban Land Institute, 1988, pp. 3-14. ISBN: 0874206863.
    Listed reading
  • Jaffe, Martin. “Performance Zoning: A Reassessment.” Land Use Law 45, no. 3 (March 1993): 3-9.
    Listed reading
  • Staley, Samuel, and Eric R. Claeys. “Is the Future of Development Regulation Based in the Past? Toward a Market-Oriented, Innovation Friendly Framework.” Journal of Urban Planning and Development . Special Issue on Innovating Regulations in Urban Planning and Development (Forthcoming, December 2005.)
    Listed reading
  • Garvin, Alexander. “Land Use Regulations.” Chapter 16 in The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 372-381. ISBN: 0070229198.
    Listed reading
  • Morris, Marya. Incentive Zoning: Meeting Urban Design and Affordable Housing Objectives. Planners Advisory Service, Report no. 494. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association, 2000. ISBN: 1884829473.
    Listed reading
  • Kendig, Lane, Susan Connor, Cranston Byrd, and Judy Heyman. “The Concept of Performance Zoning.” Part One in Performance Zoning . Washington, DC: Planners Press, American Planning Association, 1980, pp. 3-50. ISBN: 0918286182.
    Listed reading
  • Thomas, June. “Neighborhood Planning: Uses of Oral History.” Journal of Planning History 2, no. 1 (February 2004): 50-70.
    Listed reading
  • Knack, Ruth Eckdish. “Dense, Denser, Denser Still.” Planning (August 2002): 4-9.
    Listed reading
  • Pawlukiewicz, Michael. “Embracing Density.” Urban Land 61, no. 7 (July 2002): 18-20.
    Listed reading
  • Fader, Steven. Density by Design: New Directions in Residential Development . 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2000, pp. 1-19. ISBN: 0874208335.
    Listed reading
  • Salvesen, David. “The Making of Place.” Urban Land 61, no. 7 (July 2002): 36-41.
    Listed reading
  • Kennedy, Maureen, and Paul Leonard. Dealing With Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices. A Discussion Paper Prepared for The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, April 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Bergsman, Steve. “Community Renewal: Activating Chicago’s Washington Park.” Urban Land 63, no. 10 (October 2004): 104-107.
    Listed reading
  • Seidman, Karl F. Revitalizing Commerce for American Cities: A Practitioner’s Guide to Urban Main Street Programs. The Fannie Mae Foundation, September 2004. ( PDF - 1.8MB ) ↗
    Listed reading
  • Williams, Brian. “Designing a Downtown.” Planning (December 2004): 20-23.
    Listed reading
  • Ellis, Cliff. “The New Urbanism: Critiques and Rebuttals.” Journal of Urban Design 7, no. 3 (2002): 261-291.
    Listed reading
  • Nasar, Jack L. “Does Neotraditional Development Build Community?” Journal of Planning Education and Research 23, no. 1 (Fall 2003): 58-68.
    Listed reading
  • Mandel, Charles. “It Fakes a Village.” THIS (May/June 1997): 13-16.
    Listed reading
  • Schmitz, Adrienne. “The New Suburbia.” Urban Land 63, no. 5 (May 2004): 52-57.
    Listed reading
  • Duany, Andrés, and David Brain. “Regulating as if Humans Matter: The Transect and Post-Suburban Planning.” In Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America. Edited by Eran Ben-Joseph and Terry S. Szold. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 0415948754.
    Listed reading
  • Duerksen, Christopher J. “Form, Character, and Context: New Directions in Land Use Regulations.” American Planning Association Annual Conference (April 1996): 1-5 and illustrations.
    Listed reading
  • Community Form Plan, Summary Paper: Vision, Guiding Principles, and Form Districts. Cornerstone 2020, Louisville and Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan, January 1996.
    Listed reading
  • Nelessen, Anton Clarence. Visions for a New American Dream . Chicago, IL: Planners Press, 1994. ISBN: 1884829007.
    Listed reading
  • Kohr, Todd. From Form to Function: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Potential of Form-Based Zoning Codes . MIT DUSP Thesis 2004. ( PDF - 5.5 MB ) ↗
    Listed reading
  • McCann, Barbara. “Complete the Streets!” Planning (May 2005): 18-23.
    Listed reading
  • State of North Carolina. Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) Guidelines . North Carolina Department of Transportation: Division of Highways, August 2000.
    Listed reading
  • City of Toronto Planning and Development. Streetscape Manual. Toronto, ONT., Canada: City of Toronto, 1995.
    Listed reading
  • National Main Street Center. Guiding Design on Main Street . Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1988. Skim text for general and relevant content.
    Listed reading
  • Knack, Ruth Eckdish. “Drive Nicely.” Planning 64, no. 12 (December 1998): 12-15.
    Listed reading
  • Knapp, Keith K. “Traffic-Calming Basics.” Civil Engineering . New York, January 2000, pp. 46-49.
    Listed reading
  • Hoyle, Cynthia L. Traffic Calming. Planners Advisory Service Report no. 456, American Planning Association, July 1995.
    Listed reading
  • Kunstler, James Howard. “The Evil Empire.” Chapter 7 in The Geography of Nowhere . New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994, pp. 113-131. ISBN: 0671707744.
    Listed reading
  • DiLorenzo, Thomas J. “Suburban Legends.” Society (November/December 2000): 11-18.
    Listed reading
  • Miara, Jim. “Fueling Sprawl.” Urban Land 59, no. 5 (May 2000): 78-79, 109.
    Listed reading
  • Katz, Bruce. “The Permanent Campaign.” Urban Land 62, no. 5 (May 2003): 44-52.
    Listed reading
  • Downs, Anthony. “What does ‘Smart Growth Really Mean?” Planning (April 2001): 20-25.
    Listed reading
  • Krieger, Alex. “Beyond the Rhetoric of Smart Growth.” Architecture (June 1999): 53-57.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “Seven Wise (though possibly impractical) Goals for Smart Growth Advocates.” In Smart Growth: Form and Consequences . Edited by Szold and Carbonell. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2002, pp. 102-109. ISBN: 1558441514.
    Listed reading
  • Conte, Christopher R. “The Boys of Sprawl.” Governing (May 2000): 28-33.
    Listed reading
  • Blaesser, Brian W. “Growth Management: A Developer’s Perspective.” Development Magazine XXIX, no. 3: 6, 76.
    Listed reading
  • Beyard, Michael D., and Michael Pawlukiewicz. Ten Principles for Reinventing America’s Suburban Strips . Washington, DC: The Urban Land Institute, 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Barnett, Jonathan. “Suburban Sprawl: Its Prevention and Cure,” and “Creating Communities.” in The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region. IconEditions, New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996, chapters 3 and 4, pp. 47-74, 75-91. ISBN: 0064302229.
    Listed reading
  • Burchell, Robert W., David Listokin, and Catherine C. Galley. “Smart Growth: More Than a Ghost of Urban Policy Past, Less Than a Bold New Horizon.” Housing Policy Debate 11, no. 4: 821-879.
    Listed reading
  • Downs, Anthony. “The Basic Situation.” Part 1 in Stuck in Traffic. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, and Cambridge, MA: The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1992, pp. 7-22. ISBN: 0815719299.
    Listed reading
  • Berman, Wayne. “Travel Demand Management: Thoughts on the New Role for TDM as a Management and Operations Strategy.” Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Journal (September 2002): 24-28. Washington.
    Listed reading
  • Frank, Lawrence D., and Robert T. Dunphy. “Smart Growth and Transportation.” Urban Land 57, no. 5 (May 1998): 58-63, 76-77.
    Listed reading
  • Calthorpe, Peter. “Guidelines.” Section in The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream . New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993, pp. 41-49. ISBN: 1878271687.
    Listed reading
  • Tumlin, Jeffery, and Adam Millard-Ball. “How to Make Transit-Oriented Development Work.” Planning (May 2003): 14-19.
    Listed reading
  • Strauss, Mark E., and Lawrence M. Rosenbloom. “Making TOD Real.” Urban Land 63, no. 5 (May 2004): 14, 17.
    Listed reading
  • Flint, Anthony. “Frustrating Development.” Boston Globe (June 7, 2003): B1.
    Listed reading
  • Cervero, Robert. The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry . Washington, DC: Island Press, 1998, pp. 72-105. ISBN: 1559635916.
    Listed reading
  • Smart Site Practices for Redevelopment and Infill Projects Redevelopment. Center for Watershed Protection, October 2001. ( PDF ) ↗
    Listed reading
  • Enlow, Clair. “Planning-Rethinking Streets as Parks-Seattle’s Open Space Strategy Shifts its Emphasis Away from Traditional Parks to an Evolving “Urban Ecosystem” that Focuses on City Streets.” Landscape Architecture 92 (2002): 52-58.
    Listed reading
  • Rishbeth, C. “Ethnic Minority Groups and the Design of Public Open Space: An Inclusive Landscape?” Landscape Research 26, no. 4 (2001): 351-366.
    Listed reading
  • Fleming, Nancy L. “Urban Rivers Reborn.” Urban Land 64, no. 5 (May 2005): 111-116.
    Listed reading
  • Tarnay, Stella, and Ed McMahon. “Toward Green Urbanism.” Urban Land 64, no. 6 (June 2005): 54-59.
    Listed reading
  • White, S. Mark. “Affirmative Measures: Using Land-Use Controls to Provide Affordable Housing.” Chapter 2 in Affordable Housing . Planners Advisory Service, Report no. 441. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association, 1992, pp. 17-39.
    Listed reading
  • Porter, Douglas, R. “Inclusionary Zoning.” Urban Land 63, no. 1 (January 2004): 27-31.
    Listed reading
  • Downs, Anthony. “How City-Planning Practices Affect Metropolitan-Area Housing Markets and Vice Versa.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges 1950 - 2000 . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin and Bish Sanyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, 2000, pp. 117-127. ISBN: 0882851659.
    Listed reading
  • Kayden, Jerold. “Plaza Suite.” Planning (March 2000): 16-19.
    Listed reading
  • Lassar, Terry Jill. “Great Expectations: The Limits of Incentive Zoning.” Urban Land 49, no. 5 (May 1990): 12-15.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 22 · TOPICS: Client Meeting with Project Teams · READINGS: Final plan recommendations will be presented by student project teams to our client and the public the first week of December.
    Reading assignment
  • Friedmann, John. “Toward a Non-Euclidian Mode of Planning.” And response commentary from Sam Casella and Daniel Lauber. Journal of the American Planning Association 59, no. 4 (Autumn 1993): 482-486.
    Listed reading
  • Zucker, Paul C. “Thirty How-To’s for Success.” Chapter 6 in Planners on Planning: Leading Planners offer Real-Life Lessons on What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why. Edited by Bruce W. McClendon and Anthony James Catanese. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, Publishers, 1996, pp. 77-88. ISBN: 0787902853.
    Listed reading
  • Szold, Terry. “Merging Place-Making and Process in Local Practice.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges 1950 - 2000 . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin and Bish Sanyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, 2000, pp. 36-42. ISBN: 0882851659.
    Listed reading
  • Glazer, Nathan. “The Public’s Image of the Profession.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges 1950 - 2000 . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin and Bish Sanyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, 2000, pp. 224-230. ISBN: 0882851659.
    Listed reading
  • Bartholomew, Keith. “The Evolution of Non-Governmental Land Use Planning Organizations.” Journal of the American Planning Association 65, no. 4 (Autumn 1999): 357-363.
    Listed reading
  • Birch, Eugenie Ladner. “Practitioners and the Art of Planning.” Journal of Planning Education and Research (Summer 2001): 407-422.
    Listed reading
Fall 2003

Topics

  • Course Introduction
  • Community Planning Project Introduced
  • Discussion of Client Project - Project Teams Formed
  • Land Use Planning and Regulation - An Overview
  • Zoning Controls - The Basics
  • Plan-Making at the Community Level
  • Imaging Needham Center and its Streets
  • State and Regional Planning Mandates versus Home Rule
  • The Growth Management System and Growth Rate Controls: Local and Regional Issues
  • Visioning
  • Zoning Innovations
  • Neotraditional Planning, New Urbanism
  • Transit-Oriented Development
  • Community Design and Alternative Regulatory Approaches What’s Applicable to the Needham Project?
  • Project Workshop Day
  • Sprawl and the Evolution of Suburbia
  • Smart Growth
  • Traffic Calming
  • The Mobility Challenge for Planning: Linking Land Use and Transportation
  • Edge Cities
  • More on Incentive-Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing Affordability
  • Project Team Discussions and Final Document Planning
  • The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis

Readings

  • Kaiser, Edward J., and David R. Godschalk. “Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree.” Journal of the American Planning Association 61, 3 (Summer 1995): 365-384. A positive assessment.
    Listed reading
  • Popper, Frank J. “Understanding American Land Use Regulation Since 1970.” Journal of the American Planning Association 54, 3 (Summer 1988): 291-301. A good overview of the evolution of the system.
    Listed reading
  • Jacobs, Harvey M. “Fighting over Land: America’s Legacy…America’s Future?” Journal of the American Planning Association 65, 2 (Spring 1999): 141-149.
    Listed reading
  • Teitz, Michael B. “Reflections and Research on the U.S. Experience.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges 1950 - 2000. Edited by Lloyd Rodwin, and Bish Sanyal. New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, 2000, pp. 275-304.
    Listed reading
  • Frank, S., and Judith Getzels, eds. “Zoning.” Chap. 15 of The Practice of Local Government Planning . Washington, D.C.: International City Management Association in cooperation with the American Planning Association, 1979, pp. 416-443. Richard Babcock’s concise look at the evolution of zoning.
    Listed reading
  • Knack, Ruth Eckdish. “Return to Euclid.” Planning (May 1997): 4-8.
    Listed reading
  • Foster, Kelleann, et. al. “Zoning on the Line.” Planning (Nov 1996): 10-13.
    Listed reading
  • Garvin, Alexander. “Land Use Regulations.” Chapter 16 in The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 356-372. Nice history of zoning in New York City, and good illustrations of bulk and density controls.
    Listed reading
  • Thomas, June Manning, and Marsha Ritzdorf, eds. “The Racial Origins of Zoning.” Part One of Urban Planning and the African American Community: In the Shadows. Edited by Christopher Silver. Sage Publications, 1997, pp. 23-42.
    Listed reading
  • Ritzdorf, Marsha. Locked Out of Paradise: Contemporary Exclusionary Zoning, the Supreme Court, African Americans, 1970 to the Present. Pp. 43-57. This entire book has been placed on reserve at Rotch Library.
    Listed reading
  • Neuman, Michael. “Does Planning Need the Plan?” Journal of the American Planning Association 64, 2 (Spring 1998): 208-220.
    Listed reading
  • Baer, William C. “General Plan Evaluation Criteria: An Approach to Making Better Plans.” Journal of the American Planning Association 63, 3 (Summer 1997): 329-344. “Would you know a good plan if you saw one?”
    Listed reading
  • Lynch, Kevin. “The Image of the Environment.” Chap. 1 in Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: The Technology Press and Harvard University Press, 1960, pp. 1-13.
    Listed reading
  • Jacobs, Allan B. “Making Great Streets.” Chap. 4 in Great Streets. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 269-308.
    Listed reading
  • Callies, David L. “The Quiet Revolution Revisited: A Quarter Century of Progress.” Chap. 2 in Modernizing State Planning Statues: The Growing Smart Working Papers. Planners Advisory Service, Report No. 462/463, American Planning Association, 1996, pp. 19-26. An overview of the approach in ten states.
    Listed reading
  • Burby, Raymond J., et. al. “Is State-Mandated Planning Effective?” Land Use Law 45, 10 (Oct 1993): 3-9.
    Listed reading
  • Herr, Philip B. “The Cape Cod Village: An Endangered Species.” Changing Cities. Spring 1992, pp. 7- 9, 53. The former instructor of this course offers insights about the unintended consequences of the regulatory provisions of the Cape Cod Commission regional growth management model.
    Listed reading
  • Flint, Anthony. “Bourne Panel at Odds on Project.” Boston Globe (22 July 2001): B1 and B4. Debate over regional review issues for local project with major impact.
    Listed reading
  • Knack, Ruth Eckdish. “Go Badgers, Fight Sprawl.” Planning (May 1997): 14-17. Regional plan stirs concerns in townships.
    Listed reading
  • Alexander, Frank S. “Inherent Tensions Between Home Rule and Regional Planning.” Wake Forest Law Review. Winston-Salem, Fall 2000, pp. 539-561. The Georgia experience.
    Listed reading
  • Wheeler, Stephen M. “The New Regionalism: Characteristics of an Emerging Movement.” Journal of the American Planning Association 68, 3 (Summer 2002): 267-278.
    Listed reading
  • Chinitz, Benjamin. “Good for the Town, Bad for the Nation?” Journal of the American Planning Association 56, 1 (Winter 1990): 3-8. Some interesting questions and arguments are advanced. Is the conclusion surprising?
    Listed reading
  • Fischel, William A. “Growth Management Reconsidered: Good for the Town, Bad for the Nation?” Journal of the American Planning Association 57, 3 (Summer 1991): 341-344. The debate continues.
    Listed reading
  • Nelson, Arthur C., and James B. Duncan, et. al. “The Purposes of Growth Management.” Chap. 1 in Growth Management Principles and Practices . Chicago, IL: Planners Press, American Planning Association, 1995, pp. 1-18. This book has been placed on reserve at the Rotch Library. Several copies of this chapter are also on reserve.
    Listed reading
  • DeGrove, John M., et. al. Balanced Growth: A Planning Guide for Local Government. Washington, D.C.: International City Management Association (ICMA), 1991. From Part 1, Growth Management Policy, “Growth Management: Past, Present, Future,” Elizabeth A. Deakin, pp. 3-10., and “Fifteen Ways to Make Growth Management Work,” Nancy Alexander, pp. 11-17.
    Listed reading
  • Calavita, Nico. “Vale of Tears.” Planning (March 1997): 18-21. A critical assessment of growth control measures in San Diego.
    Listed reading
  • Salkin, Patricia E. “Barriers to Affordable Housing: Are Land Use Controls the Scapegoat?” Land Use Law & Zoning Digest 45, 4 (April 1993): 3-7.
    Listed reading
  • Nelson, Arthur C., and David R. Peterman. “Does Growth Management Matter? The Effect of Growth Management on Economic Performance.” Journal of Planning Education and Research (Spring 2000): 277-285.
    Listed reading
  • Keene, John C. “Social Equity and Metropolitan Growth.” Planning for a New Century: The Regional Agenda. Edited by Jonathan Barnett. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 2001, pp. 49-62.
    Listed reading
  • Pendall, Rolf. “Local Land Use Regulation and the Chain of Exclusion.” Journal of the American Planning Association 66, 2 (Spring 2000): 125-142.
    Listed reading
  • Klein, Bill. “Citizen Participation: Whose Vision is It?” Agenda for America’s Communities. American Planning Association, May 1993, pp. 1-12.
    Listed reading
  • Naylor, Amy R. “Citizen Participation in Brunswick, Maine.” Planners’ Casebook. American Planning Association, Spring 1994, pp. 1-8. A non-traditional approach to involving citizens in the Planning Process.
    Listed reading
  • Shipley, Robert, and Ross Newkirk. “Visioning: Did Anybody See Where it Came From?” Journal of Planning Literature 12, 4 (May 1998): 407-414. Useful cautions and questions.
    Listed reading
  • Tauxe, Caroline S. “Marginalizing Public Participation in Local Planning: An Ethnographic Account.” Journal of the American Planning Association 61, 4 (Autumn 1995): 471-481. Bureaucratic norms and the need for cultural sensitivity.
    Listed reading
  • Hinshaw, Mark. “Rezone or Dezone?” Planning (June 2000): 4-9. Time to overhaul the system.
    Listed reading
  • Porter, Douglas R., Patrick L. Phillips, and Terry J. Lassar. “Introduction to Flexible Zoning.” Chap. 1 in Flexible Zoning and How It Works. Washington: The Urban Land Institute, 1988, pp. 3-14. An overview and model application of performance zoning.
    Listed reading
  • Jaffe, Martin. “Performance Zoning: A Reassessment.” Land Use Law 45, 3 (March 1993): 3-9. While focused on legal and regulatory issues, this evaluation of actual applications offers important “real world” lessons.
    Listed reading
  • DeGrove, John M., et. al. Balanced Growth: A Planning Guide for Local Government. Washington, D.C.: International City Management Association (ICMA), 1991. From Part 2, Growth Management Techniques, “TDRs: An Innovative Approach to Growth Management, Barbarina Heyerdahl, pp. 63-65.
    Listed reading
  • Garvin, Alexander.“Land Use Regulations.” Chap. 16 in The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 372-381. (See sections on Incentives and Special Districts.)
    Listed reading
  • Morris, Marya. Incentive Zoning: Meeting Urban Design and Affordable Housing Objectives. Chicago, IL: Planners Advisory Service, Report No. 494, American Planning Association, 2000. Legal issues, urban design and affordable housing topics discussed in reference to incentive zoning. Skim text for general content.
    Listed reading
  • Kendig, Lane, Susan Connor, Cranston Byrd, and Judy Heyman. “The Concept of Performance Zoning.” Part One in Performance Zoning. Washington, D.C.: Planners Press, American Planning Association, 1980, pp. 3-50. If you have any free time, perusal of this book in its entirety is worthwhile. It has been placed on reserve at the Rotch Library.
    Listed reading
  • Porter, Douglas R., ed. Performance Standards for Growth Management. Chicago, IL: Planners Advisory Service, Report No. 461, American Planning Association, 1996. Chapter 2: “Performance Standards and Point Systems in Western Communities,” William Davidson, pp. 7-12; and Chapter 5: “Leveraging Growth Management with APFOs,” William E. Baumgaertner et. al., pp. 23-30. This report has been placed on reserve at the Rotch Library.
    Listed reading
  • Knack, Ruth Eckdish. “Repent, Ye Sinners, Repent.” Planning (Aug 1989): 4-10; 13. An early description of NTD.
    Listed reading
  • Middleton, D. Scott. “Celebration, Florida: Breaking New Ground.” Urban Land 56, 2 (Feb 1997): 32-36, 54-55. New urbanism goes Disney.
    Listed reading
  • Mandel, Charles. “It Fakes a Village.” THIS (May/Jun 1997): 13-16. A view from the north.
    Listed reading
  • Calthorpe, Peter. “New Urbanism and the Apologists for Sprawl.” Places (Spring 2000): 67-69. This whole journal edition is devoted to New Urbanism, with a number of case studies.
    Listed reading
  • Marshall, Alex. “A Tale of Two Towns: Kissimmee versus Celebration and the New Urbanism.” How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000, pp. 1-39.
    Listed reading
  • Southworth, Michael. “Walkable Suburbs: An Evaluation of Neotraditional Communities at the Urban Edge. " Journal of the American Planning Association 63, 21 (Winter 1997): 28-44. A comparative analysis of neotraditional developments with a turn-of-the-century streetcar suburb.
    Listed reading
  • Calthorpe, Peter. “Guidelines.” The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993. Section on pages 41-49. This book has been placed on reserve at the Rotch Library, and is worth reviewing in entirety.
    Listed reading
  • Tumlin, Jeffery, and Adam Millard-Ball. “How to Make Transit-Oriented Development Work.” Planning (May 2003): 14-19.
    Listed reading
  • Flint, Anthony. “Frustrating Development.” Boston Globe (7 Jun 2003): B1.
    Listed reading
  • Miara, Jim. “On Route.” Urban Land 60, 5 (May 2001): 84-90. A changing culture on transit and development.
    Listed reading
  • Boarnet, Marlon G., and Nicholas S. Compin. “Transportation-Oriented Development in San Diego County: The Incremental Implementation of a Planning Idea.” Journal of the American Planning Association 65, 1 (Winter 1999): 80-95. Goals, barriers, and actual results.
    Listed reading
  • Knack, Ruth Eckdish. “Dense, Denser, Denser Still.” Planning (Aug 2002): 4-9.
    Listed reading
  • Pawlukiewicz, Michael. “Embracing Density.” Urban Land 61, 7 (Jul 2002): 18-20.
    Listed reading
  • Fader, Steven. Density by Design: New Directions in Residential Development. 2nd ed. Washington D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2000, pp. 1-19. Useful ideas to consider.
    Listed reading
  • Lee, Thomas, L. “Place Making in Suburbia.” Urban Land 59, 10 (Oct 2000): 72-79, 112-113.
    Listed reading
  • Salvesen, David. “The Making of Place.” Urban Land 61, 7 (Jul 2002): 36-41. Do these principles apply to our suburban context?
    Listed reading
  • Duerksen, Christopher J. “Form, Character, and Context: New Directions in Land Use Regulations.” American Planning Association Annual Conference (Apr 1996): 1-5 and illustrations. Community Form Plan, Summary Paper: Vision, Guiding Principles, and Form Districts. Cornerstone 2020. Louisville and Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan (Jan 1996).
    Listed reading
  • Duany, Andres, and Emily Talen. “Transect Planning.” Journal of the American Planning Association 68, 3 (Summer 2002): 245-266. Planning for various habitats and forms.
    Listed reading
  • Nelessen, Anton Clarence. Visions for a New American Dream. Chicago, Illinois: Planners Press, 1994. The originator of the visual preference survey advances process and principles for the creation and design of small communities. Worth perusing for ideas of potential relevance to the client project. This book in its entirety is worthwhile, and it has been placed on reserve at the Rotch Library.
    Listed reading
  • Kunstler, James Howard. “The Evil Empire.” Chap. 7 in The Geography of Nowhere. Simon & Schuster, New York: Touchstone, 1994, pp. 113-131. This book is worth purchasing and reading in entirety.
    Listed reading
  • Katz, Bruce, and Jennifer Bradley. “Divided We Sprawl.” The Atlantic Monthly (Dec 1999): 26, 28, 30, 38-42. The challenge of metropolitanism.
    Listed reading
  • DiLorenzo, Thomas J. “Suburban Legends.” Society (Nov/Dec 2000): 11-18. Ponder this perspective.
    Listed reading
  • Miara, Jim. “Fueling Sprawl.” Urban Land 59, 5 (May 2000): 78-79, 109. High-tech and “smart firms” become culprits.
    Listed reading
  • Barnett, Jonathan. The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region. Harper Collins Publishers, New York: IconEditions, 1996. Chapter 3: “Suburban Sprawl: Its Prevention and Cure,” pp. 47-74; Chapter 4: “Creating Communities,” pp. 75-91. This book has also been placed on reserve at the Rotch Library.
    Listed reading
  • Katz, Bruce. “The Permanent Campaign.” Urban Land 62, 5 (May 2003): 44-52.
    Listed reading
  • Pawlukiewicz, Michael. “What is Smart Growth?” Urban Land 57, 6 (Jun 1998): 45-48.
    Listed reading
  • Downs, Anthony. “What does ‘Smart Growth Really Mean?” Planning (Apr 2001): 20-25.
    Listed reading
  • Krieger, Alex. “Beyond the Rhetoric of Smart Growth.” Architecture (Jun 1999): 53-57.
    Listed reading
  • Krieger, Alex. “Seven Wise (though possibly impractical) Goals for Smart Growth Advocates.” Smart Growth: Form and Consequences. Edited by Szold and Carbonell. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2002, pp. 102-109.
    Listed reading
  • Conte, Christopher R. “The Boys of Sprawl.” Governing (May 2000): 28-33. Smart Growth advocates beware! The free-market advocates mobilize!
    Listed reading
  • Blaesser, Brian, W. “Growth Management: A Developer’s Perspective.” Development Magazine 29, 3: 6, 76.
    Listed reading
  • Burchell, Robert W., David Listokin, and Catherine C. Galley. “Smart Growth: More Than a Ghost of Urban Policy Past, Less Than a Bold New Horizon.” Housing Policy Debate 11, 4: 821-879. For those who want to read more about this topic.
    Listed reading
  • Knack, Ruth Eckdish. “Drive Nicely.” Planning 64, 12 (Dec 1998): 12-15. Cities, including Cambridge, begin to embrace traffic calming.
    Listed reading
  • Knapp, Keith, K. “Traffic-Calming Basics.” Civil Engineering . New York: Jan 2000, pp. 46-49.
    Listed reading
  • Hoyle, Cynthia L. Traffic Calming. Planners Advisory Service Report #456, American Planning Association. Jul 1995. This publication has been placed on reserve at the Rotch Library. (Skim through for a sense of the concept and various techniques.)
    Listed reading
  • Downs, Anthony. “The Basic Situation.” Part 1 in Stuck in Traffic. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, and Cambridge, MA: The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1992, pp. 7-22. This book has been placed on reserve at the Rotch Library. Students may wish to skim through the rest of the text to get a general sense of content.
    Listed reading
  • Berman, Wayne. “Travel Demand Management: Thoughts on the New Role for TDM as a Management and Operations Strategy.” Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Journal (Sept 2002): 24-28.
    Listed reading
  • Frank, Lawrence D., and Robert T. Dunphy. “Smart Growth and Transportation.” Urban Land 57, 5 (May 1998): 58-63, 76-77.
    Listed reading
  • Cervero, Robert. The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1998, pp. 72-105.
    Listed reading
  • Giuliano, Genevieve. “Transportation Demand Management: Promise or Panacea?” Journal of the American Planning Association 58, 3 (Summer 1992): 327-335. Does TDM really work?
    Listed reading
  • Garreau, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. Anchor Books, New York: Doubleday, 1991. Chapter 1: “The Search for the Future Inside Ourselves,” pp. 3-15; and Chapter 3: “Boston: Edge City Limits,” pp. 69-97. This book and its author (a journalist, not a planner) require us to re-evaluate and explore the new, emerging corporate and community landscape. This book has been placed on reserve at the Rotch Library.
    Listed reading
  • Vanderbilt, Tom. “Revolt of the Nice.” The Baffler , 7: 61-67. A less benign perspective.
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  • Barnett, Jonathan. “Turning Edge Cities into Real Cities.” Planning (Nov 2002): 10-13.
    Listed reading
  • Bowen, William M., and Deborah Kimble. “Edge Cities in Context.” Edited by Richard D. Bingham. Beyond Edge Cities. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997, pp. 3-22.
    Listed reading
  • Kayden, Jerold. “Plaza Suite.” Planning (Mar 2000): 16-19.
    Listed reading
  • Lassar, Terry Jill. “Great Expectations: The Limits of Incentive Zoning.” Urban Land 49, 5 (May 1990): 12-15.
    Listed reading
  • White, Mark S. “Affirmative Measures: Using Land-Use Controls to Provide Affordable Housing.” Chap. 2 in Affordable Housing. Planners Advisory Service, Report No. 441. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association, 1992, pp. 17-39. These measures deserve serious consideration as devices to broaden affordability.
    Listed reading
  • Downs, Anthony. “How City-Planning Practices Affect Metropolitan-Area Housing Markets and Vice Versa.” The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges 1950 - 2000. Edited by Lloyd Rodwin, and Bish Sanyal. Rutgers, New Brunswick N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2000, pp. 117-127.
    Listed reading
  • Beaumont, Constance E. How Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities. National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1994. Beware of the box retailer! This book has been placed on reserve at the Rotch Library. Read Introduction and Chapter 8, peruse other chapters.
    Listed reading
  • Herr, Philip B. “The Case of the Northeastern Village.” Historic Preservation Forum 6, 5 (Sept/Oct 1992): 20-28.
    Listed reading
  • Knack, Ruth. “Cutting Monster Homes Down to Size.” Planning (Oct 1999): 4-9.
    Listed reading
  • Larsen, Larissa. “Character Counts.” Planning (Nov 2000): 22-23.
    Listed reading
  • Duerksen, Christopher J. Aesthetics, Community Character, and the Law. American Planning Association . Planning Advisory Service no. 489/490, 1999.
    Listed reading
  • Friedmann, John. “Toward a Non-Euclidian Mode of Planning,” and response commentary from Sam Casella and Daniel Lauber. Journal of the American Planning Association 59, 4 (Autumn 1993): 482-486. This commentary, counterpoint, and debate is worth pondering.
    Listed reading
  • McClendon, Bruce W., and Anthony James Catanese, eds. “Thirty How-To’s for Success.” Chap. 6 in Planners on Planning: Leading Planners offer Real-Life Lessons on What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why. Edited by Paul C. Zucker. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996, pp. 77-88. Recommended leadership styles and survival skills for planners.
    Listed reading
  • Szold, Terry. “Merging Place-Making and Process in Local Practice.” The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges 1950 - 2000 . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin, and Bish Sanyal. Rutgers, New Brunswick N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2000, pp. 36-42.
    Listed reading
  • Glazer, Nathan. “The Public’s Image of the Profession.” The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges 1950 - 2000 . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin, and Bish Sanyal. Rutgers, New Brunswick N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2000, pp. 224-230.
    Listed reading
  • Bartholomew, Keith. “The Evolution of Non-Governmental Land Use Planning Organizations.” Journal of the American Planning Association 65, 4 (Autumn 1999): 357-363. NGOs begin to broaden their mission and role.
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  • Birch, Eugenie Ladner. “Practitioners and the Art of Planning.” Journal of Planning Education and Research (Summer 2001): 407-422.
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Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2027-2028: Not offered Acad Year 2028-2029: G (Fall) 3-0-9 units

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