Faculty Advisers
Clinton Andrews
(co-coordinator), Tony Nelessen (co-coordinator), Richard Brail, Salah
El-Shakhs, Michael Greenberg, Judith Grant Long, Lyna Wiggins
This concentration prepares students to design, plan, and manage the
human-environment interface. This concentration has two tracks-design
and environment. The design track focuses on the visioning, planning,
and urban design of neighborhoods, towns, and cities using the
principles of New Urbanism. The environment track focuses on the
application of management and policy tools to reduce anthropogenic
environmental impacts and to mitigate natural hazards. All students in
this concentration will develop fluency with the distinct but
interdependent design, regulatory, and managerial approaches.
Students must take the two required courses, and at least four courses
total in the concentration. They can focus on one of two
tracks-environment or design-selecting from the list below depending on
interest. At least one graduate planning studio in environmental or
physical planning is strongly recommended. Students in the design track
may do a directed study in urban design under faculty direction.
Required Courses
34:970:601 Introduction to Planning and Design
34:970:618 Environmental Planning and Management
Recommended Courses
34:833:561 The Role of Experts in the Policy Process
34:833:565 Politics and Regulation
34:970:508 Comprehensive Planning
34:970:523 Legal Aspects of Environmental Planning
34:970:525 Property Theory and Policy
34:970:541 Planning for New Communities
34:970:555 Urban Transportation Policy Analysis
34:970:556 Urban Transportation Planning
34:970:558 Public Transit Planning and Management
34:970:571 Industrial Ecology
34:970:585 Tourism Planning
34:970:591 Computer Applications in Urban
Planning and Development
34:970:592 Topics in Computer Applications in Urban Planning
34:970:602 Zoning for Communities of Place
34:970:604 Land Development Practice
