Urban and Community Planning

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) Urban planning shapes the city spaces where we live, work, and play, and affects the well-being of all urban dwellers. Students critically examine planning history, theory, and practice in local context, with anbemphasis on understanding values, power, and process. Students explore planning at city and neighbourhood scales through assignments, activities, and field trips that highlight current issues and planning strategies for equity and transformation. Topics may include community leadership and participation in planning, Indigenous urban planning, planning as social control, and planning for sustainable and equitable cities. Cross-listed: GEOG-3432(3). Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and GEOG-3432. Requisite Courses: UIC-1001 or UIC-2001 or GEOG-1105 or the previous GEOG-1103, or permission of the instructor [prerequisite(s)].