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(CY PLAN 24* course series) Faculty Advisors: Nezar AlSayyad, Peter Bosselmann, Elizabeth Macdonald, Michael Southworth Urban designers are concerned with how communities look, how they feel, and how they work for the people who use them. Urban design is the art of shaping urban environments over time and giving form to neighborhoods and cities, as well as creating environments that are educative and just. It is concerned with creating alternatives for the form, use, and management of the large-scale urban environment and draws upon city planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and the social sciences for its theory and methods. “Design” is a key, operative word: urban designers design urban physical environments. Work ranges in scale from small public spaces or streets to neighborhoods, city-wide systems, or whole regions. Because urban designers work for the public in one way or another, they must have an understanding of the physical-form implications of social, legal, and economic policies. Students concentrating in urban design frequently have some design background, typically in architecture, landscape architecture, environmental design, or urban planning with a design emphasis, but a design background is not required. Graduates in urban design work with public agencies, largely at the local government scale but also with institutions of governments at larger scales whose responsibilities include design issues. They work as well with private architectural, landscape, city planning, and community development firms whose clients are both public and private. Required Courses CY PLAN 240: Theories of Urban Form and Design (Fall, 3 units)
CY PLAN 241: Research Methods in Environmental Design (Fall, 4 units) (1) Students without a design background are also required to take CY PLAN 208: Plan Preparation Studio (Spring, 5 units). (2) If not offered, students may petition to substitute another natural factors course. |