| Fall 2008 Graduate Courses |
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200 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. The history of city planning and the city planning profession in the context of urban history. Principal focus on the evolution of North American planning practice and theory since the late 19th century; some comparative and earlier material. Extended Course Description This course covers the evolution of the ideals, the profession, and the practice of city planning throughout history. It explores city and regional planning in the light of broader historical trends, such as changing ideas about who cities are for; different approaches to urban problem-solving; variable factors affecting how urban settlements should be organized and re-organized; the development of human understanding about relationships between the built and natural environments; and about the effects of urban form and organization on society. The focus is substantially but not entirely upon the American experience. CY PLAN
203 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. This course provides an introduction to the metropolis with a focus on its institutions, governance, and planning. It provides a metropolitan perspective on issues that cut across the concentrations, including housing, transportation, and equity, and it emphasizes strategies for governance of metropolitan regions in the U.S. and Europe. CY PLAN
204A (2,4) Three hours of lecture and one and one-half hours laboratory per week. Introduction to the use of quantitative reasoning and statistical techniques to solve planning and policy problems. Course focuses on (I) basic planning techniques for analyzing and presenting secondary data, preparing forecasts, and conducting regional economic analysis (weeks 1-8); (II) inferential statistics and sampling, as applied to planning problems; and (III) basic multivariate techniques such as chi-squared and linear regression and advanced multivariate techniques such as multiple regression (weeks 9-15). For the two-unit option, students may take the first half of the class (weeks 1-8). Extended Course Description CP 204A introduces quantitative methods for describing, analyzing, and modeling data in city and regional planning. It covers a variety of methods, from exploratory data analysis to population modeling to multiple regression analysis. We keep statistical formulas and proofs to a minimum. Instead, we emphasize building a conceptual framework and gaining practical skills for conducting data analysis in city planning. We also teach the use of a computer as a tool for data presentations and analyses. CP 204A is organized into two parts. Part I (weeks 1-7) deals with Analysis of Secondary Data (mainly from the census), in particular tract-, city-, and metropolitan-level data on population and employment. Focusing on applied planning methods, it presents a variety of techniques for analyzing and presenting secondary data, preparing population and economic forecasts, and conducting regional economic analysis. Part II (weeks 7-15) focuses on the range of Statistical Tools available for analyzing primary data (mainly samples from surveys). It deals with inferential statistics (“how sure am I of this typical value?”), bivariate measures of association (“how do two variables vary across cases in relation to one another?”), and introductory modeling. It concludes with the use of regression analysis to help explain policy-relevant outcomes (“to what degree does rent control increase housing prices?”) and predict (“if residential densities increase, on average, by 25 percent, how much will transit ridership likely rise?”). CY PLAN
205 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. An introduction to the American legal process and legal framework within which public policy and planning problems are addressed. The course stresses legal methodology, the basics of legal research, and the common-law decisional method. Statutory analysis, administrative law, and constitutional interpretation are also covered. Case topics focus on the law of planning, property rights, land use regulation, and access to housing. Extended Course Description This course teaches several practical skills essential future planning professionals. Those completing the course will:
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C213 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: 113A or equivalent. Examination of the interactions between transportation and land use systems; historical perspectives on transportation; characteristics of travel and demand estimation; evaluation of system performance; location theory; models of transportation and urban structure; empirical evidence of transportation-land use impacts; case study examinations. Also listed as Civil and Environmental Engineering C290U. Extended Course Description This course builds a conceptual and methodological framework for transportation and land use planning. It emphasizes the interplay between urban transportation theory and practice, probing the reasons why they often diverge. The first half of the course concentrates on demand, supply, cost, and performance characteristics of urban and regional transportation systems. The latter is devoted to empirical investigations of transportation and land use interactions in a variety of settings. Among the topics to be covered are:
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214 (3) Three hours of lecture/seminar per week. Survey of basic knowledge and technology of physical infrastructure systems: transportation, water supply, wastewater, storm water, solid waste management, community energy facilities, and urban public facilities. Environmental and energy impacts of infrastructure development; centralized vs. decentralized systems; case studies. Extended Course Description This course is aimed at City Planning, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Civil Engineering, ESPM and Public Policy graduate students with interests in infrastructure, transportation, land use, housing and project development, environmental planning, and urban design. The course provides a broad survey of urban infrastructure systems and the planning, regulation and financing of such systems. The course is oriented to U.S. and international aspects of infrastructure planning and policy. The course is divided into three parts: Part I: Context and Policy Framework
Part II: Infrastructure Systems
Part III: Infrastructure Implementation Techniques and Issues
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218 (4) Four hours of studio laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 213 or 217 or consent of instructor. Studio on applying skills of urban transportation planning. Topics vary, focusing on specific urban sites and multi-modal issues, including those related to planning for mass transit and other alternatives to the private automobile. Recent emphasis given to planning and designing for transit villages and transit-based housing. Extended Course Description The Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) has adopted policies promoting transit-oriented development (TOD) at and around its stations. In some cases BART is proposing to develop on its own surface parking lots. In other cases BART is working with local officials, developers, nonprofits, and community members to encourage and support infill development and improved pedestrian and bike access in the area within walking distance of the BART station. Many cities in turn have proposed TOD around BART stations. State law currently offers some incentives for this and additional incentives are under consideration. Well-designed TOD has the potential to increase BART ridership, reduce VMT, increase walk, bike, and bus mode shares, provide a mix of housing types including affordable housing, offer better access to jobs and services, and reduce traffic impacts, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas and other emissions. However, because TOD also increases the density of development and the intensity of activities around the transit station, it can raise concerns about concentration of traffic on streets in the TOD, parking spillover, gentrification, and more. TOD by itself cannot, of course, produce higher ridership. Ridership is not only a function of land uses but also of the level of service that the transit service provides. For BART, frequency of service and hours of operation are moderately high for most origin-destination pairs, though “first and last mile” issues are common. How can these access issues be best overcome? Another concern for BART is reliability of service, especially as the system ages. Since it reached maturity in the late seventies or early 80s, BART has provided a high level of reliability compared to most transit services, but what if reliability declines as vehicles, tracks, and stations age? How would increasing problems with on-time performance affect BART ridership? In this studio, we will address these issues, using one or two BART stations as the material for case studies. BART staff, city officials, and stakeholders will present the issues they are facing, and the studio participants will help develop strategies to manage adverse impacts / concerns and capture benefits. Some of the topics to be addressed include:
Specific work items will depend on the size of the class and priorities to be set in the first two weeks of class, but will likely include:
Students will gain expertise in field work in transportation planning as well as in policy development and evaluation. CY PLAN
220 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: 113A or equivalent. Analysis of the urban, metropolitan, and regional economy for planning. Economic base and other macro models; impact analysis and projection of changing labor force and industrial structure; economic-demographic interaction; issues in growth, income distribution, planning controls; interregional growth and population distribution issues. Extended Course Description Dramatic changes in the economic role of cities and metropolitan regions in recent decades underscore the need for planners and policy-makers to understand the spatial dimensions and dynamics of economic growth. Physical and social planners increasingly operate within the constraints of the metropolitan regional economy, which largely determine the region’s income and employment level, occupational structure, and socio-spatial patterns of opportunity and inequality. At the same time, economic development planners must increasingly take into account global structural forces that impact regions and constrain their development. Across the policy space of city and regional planning, practitioners need to have a working understand of both the dynamics of economic growth within cities and regions as well as how they fit into the wider economic and institutional context. This course examines the urban and regional economy as a social and intellectual history aimed at achieving this practical understanding. The first section surveys the evolution of theories of industrial location and urban and regional growth through the mid-20th century. It focuses as well on policy experience, drawing case material from both advanced industrial and developing countries. The course then examines the impacts of technological change, globalization and the reorganization of production on cities and regions, and how this has altered the theory and practice of regional economic development. Last, it surveys current trends in urban and regional economic development policy, including attempts to promote high tech development, initiatives to promote industrial clusters, policy efforts around specific regional factor conditions (such as university research and workforce development), and the potential role of social capital in re-shaping our communities and regions. The requirements for this course are three-fold: 1. Completing five brief commentaries (no more than 3 pages) on the weekly readings, five times during the semester. You can do this any week you want, but you must submit the summaries during the same week of the readings. (25%) 2. A 90 minute mid-term examination will be administered in class around the 8th week of class. (25%) 3. A three hour final examination held during exam week after class ends (50%). CY PLAN
C234 (3) Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Public Policy 210A-210B or equivalent. This course considers the economics of urban housing and land markets from the viewpoints of investors, developers, public and private managers, and consumers. It considers the interactions between private action and public regulation--including land use policy, taxation, and government subsidy programs. We will also analyze the links between primary and secondary mortgage markets, securitization, and liquidity. Finally, the links between local housing and related markets--such as transportation and public finance--will be explored. Also listed as Public Policy C275. CY PLAN
238 (4) Two hours of lecture/seminar and four hours of studio per week. Prerequisites: CY PLAN 235. Studio experience in analysis, policy advising, and project design or general plan preparation for urban communities undergoing development, with a focus on site development and project planning. Extended Course Description This course is the capstone studio for students in the Housing and Community Development Concentration. It is designed to help students synthesize a wide array of project and neighborhood development skills, including project conceptualization, market and feasibility analysis, design, financing and approvals. The course requires that teams integrate the diverse pressures on economic and project development in meeting the needs of the client. The studio experience will be augmented by guest lectures by practitioners in the design, planning and finance fields. CY PLAN
C240 (3) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Formerly CY PLAN 240. Theories and patterns of urban form throughout history are studied with emphasis on the role of planning and design in shaping cities and the relationship between urban form and social, economic, and geographic factors. Using a case study approach, cities are evaluated in terms of various theories and performance dimensions. Also listed as Landscape Architecture C250. Extended Course Description What is a good city? How does it come to be? How have conceptions of good city form changed over time? Theories and patterns of urban form throughout history are studied comparatively with emphasis on the relations between urban form and social, economic, and geographic factors. The role of planning and design in shaping urban form is addressed. Cities are evaluated in terms of various theories and performance dimensions. Students have the option of doing a term paper, a morphological analysis of a city or urban place, or a final examination for their major work in the course. Course Format Grading Required Reading There is also a course reader that includes several readings, as well as the Benevolo book, which is out of print. CY PLAN
C241 (4) Three hours of lecture/seminar and two hours of laboratory per week. Formerly Interdepartmental Studies 241. The components, structure, and meaning of the urban environment. Environmental problems, attitudes, and criteria. Environmental survey, analysis, and interview techniques. Methods of addressing environmental quality. Environmental simulation. Also listed as Landscape Architecture C241. Extended Course Description Summary of LD ARCH C241 Student Research Projects [pdf] Intent The course is about research methods that designers and planning professionals use to analyze and evaluate urban places, be they buildings, transportation routes, or open spaces. The urban environment will be viewed primarily as a social and psychological environment. Evaluation will therefore always be tied to a social and psychological environment. We shall be concerned with who environments are for, who uses them, and the conflicts that can arise between user groups. We are concerned, as well, with measuring and testing various urban environments in relation to peoples' values and with social interaction as a determinant or response to physical design. Environmental design and planning is inevitably a form of micro·politics. Evaluation will be seen as a basis for citizen involvement and environmental improvements rather than ends in themselves. Subject Matter The principal topics to be covered will be:
Teaching Method The basic teaching method will be lectures by the instructor and by visitors, group discussions, and case studies carried out by groups of students under supervision of the instructor. The main workload of the students will be to carry out their own case studies. Students are encouraged to work in small groups. Each student will become an expert in one environment or project by the end of the semester by carrying through a pilot environmental evaluation. There will be suggestions for case studies, and students must make their own choice during the first week of class. Abstracts of previous work in the course are on the course website. Readings This is a field in which there is no single text. There are several books that cover parts of the subject. A short list of readings will accompany each lecture for further reference, and a bibliography will be available. Details later. Participation The course is directed especially at city planners, landscape architects, architects, and transportation planners. Landscape and city planning students will have priority if the class gets too large. Grading Work on case studies as a group — 60% CY PLAN
C243 (5) Three hours of lecture and six hours of studio per week. Prerequisites: CY PLAN C240/LD ARCH C250; previous design studios. This interdisciplinary studio focuses on the public realm of cities and explores opportunities for creating more humane and delightful public places. Problems will be at multiple scales in both existing urban centers and in areas of new growth. Skills in analyzing, designing, and communicating urban design problems will be developed. Studio work will be supplemented with lectures, discussions, and field trips. Visiting professionals will present case studies and will serve on reviews. Also listed as Landscape Architecture C203. Extended Course Description This interdisciplinary studio focuses on the public realm of cities, and opportunities for creating more humane and delightful public places in both existing urban centers and in areas of new growth. Skills in analyzing, designing, and communicating urban design problems will be developed. Projects will be at multiple scales, from small elements like parks, plazas, or streets, to medium scale such as marketplaces or cultural centers, to larger scale such as street grids or new neighborhoods. The focus of the course will be studio work in the form of sketch problems, field studies, case studies, and longer design problems. This will be supplemented with lectures, discussions, and field trips. Visiting professionals will present case studies and will serve on reviews. Major Objectives
The course is open to graduate students in landscape architecture, city planning (urban design emphasis), and architecture. Content and Format CY PLAN 250 (3) This course will introduce students to the organization and conduct of local land use planning as practiced in California. The course will cover the following topics: California statutes, the General Plan, CEQA, specific plans and how to do them, and managing a planning department. Extended Course Description Objectives Students will gain an understanding about contemporary land use priorities dealing with the redevelopment and revitalization of urban areas, open space preservation, and transportation/land use linkage techniques. Understanding barriers to effective land use practices, along with ways of overcoming them, is a primary objective. A significant focus of the class this semester is about exploring and evaluating the application of land use actions that could play a key role in achieving the objectives of AB 32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. This landmark law, currently in its initial stage of implementation, calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions GHG) to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Organization and Approach The first half of the course grounds students on the political and legal framework of land use planning. This includes reviewing case studies dealing with urban revitalization, infill, mixed use and transit-oriented development. Students will also assess the contents and potential effectiveness of “regional blueprints” currently underway within the San Diego, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Joaquin Valley, and Bay Area metropolitan areas of California. The last half of the course has students, working as teams, developing land use strategies that reduce GHG pollution. This will center on ways state, regional and local governments can collaborate to meet the challenges and goals of global warming. The results of this work will be presented to key officials and stakeholders involved in developing and reviewing strategies to meet the goals of AB 32. CY PLAN C251 (3) Three hours of lecture per week. Formerly 251. This course will examine emerging trends in environmental planning and policy and the basic regulatory framework for environmental planning encountered in the U.S. We will also relate the institutional and policy framework of California and the United States to other nations and emerging international institutions. The emphasis of the course will be on regulating "residuals" as they affect three media: air, water, and land. Also listed as Landscape Architecture C231. Extended Course Description This course will introduce students in the concepts, methods and processes for identifying, analyzing, and designing processes and policies to address urban environmental issues. The course will review specific tools for measuring urban environmental health hazards and human exposure to pollutants found in the air, water, soil and the built environments of cities. Students will also grapple with political questions of urban environmental governance, such as the appropriate sources of environmental knowledge, the institutions for making decisions, the role of social movements, and the place of urban environmental policy making in the broader spectrum of American, international, and global politics. This course is designed for students with an interest in professional careers in environmental Planning, management and policy. This course therefore focuses on how environmental policies are designed and implemented, with attention paid to criteria and frameworks for evaluating the success of those policies. Case studies will engage students in hands-on assessments of and decision making processes to improve urban air and water quality, food access, sanitation and solid waste management, energy efficiency, and the connections between land use decisions and environmental health. At the conclusion of the course, students will:
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260 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Formerly CY PLAN 268. This course will explore the theory, history, methods, and practice of local community development. The course will begin by examining the historical roots of community involvement and action. It will present alternative explanations for different paths of neighborhood and community change. Extended Course Description Community development, understood most broadly as the effort to improve the quality of life in low-income communities, has existed in different forms for centuries. However, it is only in the last few decades that the fields of urban politics, urban sociology, urban economics, and city planning (among others) have developed a sophisticated understanding of how communities work, and community development practices are still evolving today. In fact, though many think of the 1960s and 1970s as the peak of the community development movement, the emergence of new approaches to community development, the increasing effectiveness of community-level interventions, and the growth of interdisciplinary interest in the field together suggest that the field has finally come of age. This course explores the history, theory, and practice of community development. We begin with a brief overview of the antecedents of today’s community development, from the public health movement to early sociological theories to 20th century interventions by the public sector. For the next three weeks, our inquiry turns to theories of community development, from neoclassical and Marxist economics, sociology, political science, and planning. The remainder of the course examines community development practice: its evolution and current forms. We turn first to the shift in housing policy, from concentration to dispersal. Related to this policy shift is the emergence of community development corporations and the transformation of the nonprofit sector as the state retrenches from urban policy. Globalization and immigration patterns have also transformed communities: capital flight and access to capital are reshaping communities, and global labor flows make transnational communities the norm rather than the exception in the U.S. The final seven weeks of the course provide a survey of current community development practice, including redevelopment, comprehensive community building initiatives, community economic development, asset-building, equitable development in the face of gentrification, community benefits, faith-based organizations, and new initiatives in crime, health, and education. A variety of guest lecturers will join us to speak about cutting-edge practices and obstacles in implementation. We conclude with a look at communities in the metropolitan region and the quest for community economic justice in the global era. CY PLAN
275 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Formerly CY PLAN 262. Description, analysis, and evaluation of urban policies in a variety of social and spatial contexts, with references to state-planned societies. Main topics: national and local public policies in regional development, housing, transportation, urban renewal, citizen participation, social services, and decentralized urban management. Extended Course Description Important processes of urban transformation are under way in all regions of globe. They present challenges both for urban theory and for the formulation of urban policies. These changes force reconsiderations of dominant theoretical models in at least two substantial ways. On the one hand, they show the limits of urban theories formulated in relation to the modern industrial city. On the other, they expose the problems of taking Western European or North American processes of urbanization as norms. The aim of this course is to identify and analyze current patterns of urbanization and urban restructuring that shape metropolises of the global South, which nowadays are responsible for the largest share of urbanization in the world. The course will juxtapose contemporary transformations in metropolises of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Eastern Europe. These juxtapositions will be organized around a series of themes that articulate the main changes in contemporary modes of urbanization and formulation of urban policies. The themes include: flows, infrastructures, theme parks, enclaves, zones, inequalities, illegalities, and citizenship. CY PLAN
280 (3) Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit. Advanced study in city and regional planning. CY PLAN
282 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Origins and evolution of the idea of planning. Values, choice, and purposive behavior; knowledge and social action; rationales for governmental intervention in self-regulating social systems. Alternative planning strategies for conditions of uncertainty in the absence of science-based knowledge. Traditions in Planning Thought and Practice This is a graduate seminar that focuses on the development of planning thought from the late nineteenth century to current times. The object of exploration is the process of planning itself and not the objects that planning treats. CY PLAN
290 (1–3) Three hours of lecture and discussion per week per module. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit. Analysis of selected topics in city and metropolitan planning with emphasis on implications for planning practice and urban policy formation. In some semesters, optional five-week, 1-unit modules may be offered, taking advantage of guest visitors. CY PLAN 290A CY PLAN 290B This workshop is designed for Masters students in the Department of City and Regional Planning who are working on their professional paper or thesis. It is a required core course for all MCP students who are graduating Dec 08 or May 09. Waivers will be granted if the student has completed the PR/CR in the summer and the advisor is ready to sign off. There will be two tracks: one for students who are just starting to select a topic, and those who have a topic and are doing research or writing. The first two meetings: Wed Aug 27 & Wed Sept 3rd will be for all second year MCP students. Thereafter, the two tracks will meet on Monday (Section 1: Developing Topic) or Wednesday (Section 2: Doing research and/or writing) from 11:30 to 12:30. December 08 grads will attend the second track. Although there will be periodic lectures throughout the semester, the workshop is designed to be informal to meet the diversity of topics and approaches that characterize DCRP final papers and projects! There will be in-class writing exercises as well as several hands-on sessions in the computer lab to insure that all students know how to use EndNote and other on-line library tools. This year we are adding some sessions on survey design and questionnaire construction. Advising appointments are available for more individual attention. CY PLAN 290D The construction of wastewater collection systems and treatment plants in the United States was one of the great public health success stories of the millennium. Today however, many question the ability of the current model to meet the challenges of climate change, urban growth and replacement needs, and the prospects of global disease transmission. This model uses vast quantities of clean water as transport, does a poor job of reusing nutrients, is increasingly energy intensive, disperses contaminants and disrupts natural ecological cycles. Efforts have been underway in Europe, Asia and the Middle East for the past decade to develop “zero emissions” technology for wastewater. This is called variously “resources management”, “Eco-San,” DESAR (Decentralized Sanitation and Reuse), ecological waste management, or sustainable sanitation. These innovations however, have not made headway in the urban United States. The course will explore the feasibility of urban wastewater alternatives that are carbon neutral, that conserve and recycle water, nutrients and bio-solids by using Wurster Hall as a pilot site. The intention is to develop a menu of innovative water and wastewater alternatives to be used on the campus as a whole which will serve as a model for the urban US. The course will consist of lecture/discussion and a practicum/studio. CY PLAN 290E As urban populations increase, strains are placed on basic infrastructure, housing, ecologic resources, social relationships, the local and regional economy and governance practices. The urban environment influences many aspects of health and well-being: what people eat, the air they breathe and the water they drink, where (or if) they work, the housing that shelters them, where they go for health care, the danger they encounter on the street, who is available for emotional and financial support, how political power is distributed and public resources allocated. Cities can be both the source of serious threats to the health of the public and the source of many public health innovations. While the fields of modern city planning and public health emerged together in the 19th century to address urban inequities and infectious diseases, they were largely disconnected for much of the 20th century. In the 21st century, planning and public health are reconnecting to address the new health challenges of urbanization and globalization - from racial and ethnic disparities to land use sprawl to providing basic services to the millions of urban poor around the world living in informal slum settlements. How to reconnect the field s of planning and public health to address these and other 21st century urban health challenges is the focus of this course. Students will explore the multiple forces that influence urban population health, how to analyze these determinants, and what roles city planning and public health agencies, as well as other political institutions such as local governments, civil society, the private sector and international organizations, can play in research and action aimed at improving urban health. CY PLAN
299 (1–12) Three hours of lecture and discussion per week per module. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit. Analysis of selected topics in city and metropolitan planning with emphasis on implications for planning practice and urban policy formation. In some semesters, optional five-week, 1-unit modules may be offered, taking advantage of guest visitors. CY PLAN
602 (1–8) Regular meeting to be arranged. Prerequisites: Ph.D. students only. Course may be repeated for credit. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D. May not be used for unit or residence requirements for the doctoral degree. Students may earn 1-8 units of 602 per semester or 1-4 units per summer session. No student may accumulate more than a total of 16 units of 602. |