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Note: The Regional Development concentration in its present form will be discontinued starting academic year 2008-2009. Students currently enrolled in the concentration will be grandfathered with regard to satisfying concentration requirements. Alternatives to the present Regional Development concentration will be considered in Spring 2008; information on any new or reconstituted concentration will be announced when available. (CY PLAN 22* course series) Faculty Advisors: Karen Chapple, Stephen Cohen, David Dowall, Ananya Roy, AnnaLee Saxenian (on leave to UC Berkeley’s School of Information, 2007-08) The globalization of economic activity notwithstanding, regions have become increasingly important to development and planning. The capacity of nation-states to coordinate activity is diminishing and their political authority is challenged—yet local governments are inadequate for many tasks, leading to the need for regional governance. The Regional Development concentration addresses problems of economic, political, and social transformation at physical scales greater than the community. This typically involves sub-national territorial units (e.g., the San Francisco Bay Area, southern Italy), but can include supra-national units as well. Regional planners work in both public and private sector positions. They promote industrial and technological development, respond to the problems of economic growth, decline, or stagnation, coordinate institutional relationships, oversee metropolitan land use and infrastructure development, and undertake policy-oriented analysis. The regional development concentration provides students with a foundation in theory and methods of analyzing regional transformation. It draws on political economy, institutional economics, and regional science, as well as on politics and sociology. Students learn theories of industrial location and regional growth; they explore how labor markets, migration, trade and investment, and industrial restructuring shape patterns of local and regional development. They are exposed to the institutional and cultural dimensions of regional change. Finally, they learn the methods of regional analysis typically used by regional planners and policy-makers and gain experience and insights into the problems of planning for a variety of different regional contexts. Required Courses CY PLAN 220: The Urban and Regional Economy (Fall, 3 units) (1) If CY PLAN 228 is used to satisfy the core studio requirement, then two of the elective courses listed below must be completed. Electives (minimum of 2 courses from the following list) CY PLAN 221: Political Economy and Planning (Spring, 3 units)
CY PLAN 223: Economic Development Planning (Spring, 3 units) |