EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN PLANNING

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Evaluate urban form and design using ideas from planning history and contemporary practice. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Explain the legal, institutional, economic, political or moral justifications for planning. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze planning as a collective enterprise in relation to individual freedom, politics, autonomy, and private property. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain the concept of the public interest in relation to planning. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Describe the role of urban planners and the tensions planners face as professionals. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Evaluate the relevant scales for urban planning, e.g., Individual parcels? Neighborhoods? Communities? Municipalities? Counties? States? Regions? Nations? Watersheds? Audience: Undergraduate 7. Explain suburbs and the process of suburbanization.Describe the role of race and racism in shaping cities and metropolitan regions. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Evaluate urban form and design using ideas from planning history and contemporary practice. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Explain the legal, institutional, economic, political or moral justifications for planning. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze planning as a collective enterprise in relation to individual freedom, politics, autonomy, and private property. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain the concept of the public interest in relation to planning. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Describe the role of urban planners and the tensions planners face as professionals. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Evaluate the relevant scales for urban planning, e.g., Individual parcels? Neighborhoods? Communities? Municipalities? Counties? States? Regions? Nations? Watersheds? Audience: Undergraduate 7. Explain suburbs and the process of suburbanization.Describe the role of race and racism in shaping cities and metropolitan regions. Audience: Undergraduate