Environmental and Physical Planning

Faculty Advisers
Clinton Andrews (co-coordinator), Tony Nelessen (co-coordinator), Richard Brail, Michael Greenberg, 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 (at least two of the following three courses)

Recommended Courses (choose additional courses to bring the total to four)

   34:833:572  Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
   34:833:685  Environmental Conflict and Cooperation
   34:970:521  Historic Preservation
   34:970:523  Legal Aspects of Environmental Planning
   34:970:525  Property Theory and Land Use Policy
   34:970:529  Principles of Housing
   34:970:555  Urban Transportation Policy
   34:970:556  Urban Transportation Planning
   34:970:558  Public Transit Planning and Management
   34:970:571  Industrial Ecology
   34:970:594  Program Evaluation: Process and Implementation
   34:970:604  Land Development Practice
   34:970:619  Environmental Economics and Policy
   34:970:665  Transportation, Land Use, and Urban Form
   34:970:672  Seminar: Energy Policy and Planning
   34:970:674  Housing

Recommended Methods Courses

   34:970:590  Graphical Communication for Planners
   34:970:591  Introduction to Geographic Information Science for Urban Planners
   34:970:592  Topics in Geographic Information Science

Recommended Studios

   34:970:510  Graduate Planning Studio: Urban Design
   34:970:510  Graduate Planning Studio: Comprehensive Planning
   34:970:511  Graduate Planning Studio: Redevelopment Studio
   34:970:510/1 Graduate Planning Studio: Environmental topics on a rotating basis

Upper-Division Undergraduate and Graduate Courses in Other Departments

Geography
(Note: Courses labeled Geography Seminar are offered on an occasional basis)
   01:450:404  Advanced Physical Geography
   01:450:419  Advanced Conservation and Use of Natural Resources
   16:450:508  Environment and Development
   16:450:510  Water Resources Management
   16:450:605  Geography Seminar: Human Dimensions of Environmental Change
   16:450:606  Geography Seminar: Integrated Land Use Change
   16:450:612  Natural Hazards (co-listed as undergrad course 01:450:311)

Landscape Architecture
   11:372:444  Watershed Management: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
   11:550:431  Advanced Landscape Architecture (studio course; requires some design background; topics vary)

Environmental Science
Students with appropriate backgrounds (chemistry and calculus typically required) should consider courses in the Department of Environmental Science.
   16:375:530  Hazardous Waste Management
   16:375:534  Environmental Sustainability: Life-Cycle Assessment Tools

Graduate Certificates

Students in this concentration may be interested in graduate certificate programs. Of potential interest are Human Dimensions of Environmental Change and Geographic and Geospatial Information Science. Contact your faculty adviser for more information.

Recommended Course Flow

First Year: Fall Semester

Core (pick 1-2)
   34:970:501  History and Theory of Planning
   34:970:509  Urban Economy and Spatial Patterns
   34:970:515  Methods of Planning Analysis I
   34:970:516  Methods of Planning Analysis II (if passed out of I)
   34:970:517  Survey of Planning Law Principles

Electives/Methods (pick 1-2)
   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
   34:970:591  Introduction to Geographic Information Science for Urban Planners
   34:970:604  Land Development Practice
   34:970:619  Environmental Economics and Policy
   34:970:672  Seminar: Energy Policy and Planning
   34:970:674  Housing

First Year: Spring Semester

Core (pick 1-2)
   34:970:501  History and Theory of Planning
   34:970:509  Urban Economy and Spatial Patterns
   34:970:515  Methods of Planning Analysis I
   34:970:516  Methods of Planning Analysis II
   34:970:517  Survey of Planning Law Principles

Required
   34:970:508  Comprehensive Planning
   34:970:601  Introduction to Planning and Design

Electives/Methods (pick 1-2)
   34:833:572  Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
   34:970:521  Historic Preservation
   34:970:523  Legal Aspects of Environmental Planning
   34:970:525  Property Theory and Policy
   34:970:529  Principles of Housing
   34:970:572  Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
   34:970:590  Graphical Communication for Planners
   34:970:591  Introduction to Geographic Information Science for Urban Planners
   34:970:665  Transportation, Land Use, and Urban Form
   34:970:685  Environmental Conflict and Cooperation

Second Year: Fall Semester

Core (pick 1-2)
    34:970:501  History and Theory of Planning
    34:970:509  Urban Economy and Spatial Patterns
    34:970:510  Graduate Planning Studio
    34:970:515  Methods of Planning Analysis I
    34:970:516  Methods of Planning Analysis II
    34:970:517  Survey of Planning Law Principles

Electives/Methods (pick 2-3)
   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
   34:970:591  Introduction to Geographic Information Science for Urban Planners
   34:970:604  Land Development Practice
   34:970:619  Environmental Economics and Policy
   34:970:672  Seminar: Energy Policy and Planning
   34:970:674  Housing

Second Year: Spring Semester

Core (pick 1-2)
   34:970:501  History and Theory of Planning
   34:970:509  Urban Economy and Spatial Patterns
   34:970:511  Graduate Planning Studio
   34:970:515  Methods of Planning Analysis I
   34:970:516  Methods of Planning Analysis II
   34:970:517  Survey of Planning Law Principles

Required
   34:970:618  Environmental Planning and Management