Urban Development Processes

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course investigates ideas and theories about the city, providing students with tools needed to understand how urban areas and sites are selected, evaluated and planned. Planning and zoning principles, including height, density, use, traffic and pedestrian flows are introduced, as are the administrative, financial and political processes for controlling urban development. The relationship with and reaction to physical, social, economic, political, and cultural contexts are discussed using both local and international examples.