Course Listing
This list includes the
urban planning and policy development (970) courses offered at the
Bloustein School as of September 1, 2015.
Courses are taught by various instructors and some may not be offered
every
semester. Check the Electronic Course Grid or faculty pages for specific syllabi.
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34:970:501
History and Theory of Planning (3)
Surveys the history of urban planning, its major guiding and critical theories, and their relation to a broad range of contemporary issues faced by planners and policymakers. Focus on the intellectual foundation for students pursuing professional careers in urban planning.
Required for M.C.R.P. degree.
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34:970:508
Comprehensive Planning (3)
Introduction to the principles and practice of physical planning in the United States. Workshop exercises, analyses, and readings designed to provide a comprehensive and practical understanding of steps in the physical planning and approval process, the elements of physical plans, and the data and analyses needed to prepare and review such plans.
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34:970:509
Urban Economy and Spatial Patterns (3)
Overview of basic economic principles and public
finance. Topics include location theory, central place theory, systems of
cities, and industrial location theories. Economic, sociological, and
geographic theories of the internal structure of cities examined.
Required for M.C.R.P. degree.
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34:970:510,511
Graduate Planning Studio (3,3)
Team projects in planning design; research and program development; field studies and problem analysis in local, regional, state, and national contexts. Development of comprehensive solutions, strategies, and recommendations for inner-city, suburban, and exurban areas and for regions.
Required for M.C.R.P. degree. Enrollment during last year of coursework.
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34:970:515
Methods of Planning Analysis I (3)
Introduction to applied statistics. Includes descriptive and inferential statistics, regression and correlation analysis, and computer-based analytic tools for planning analysis.
Required for M.C.R.P. degree.
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34:970:516
Methods of Planning Analysis II (3)
Introduction to the statistical tools widely used
in planning practice. Topics include applied demography, regional economics,
and use and transportation analysis models.
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34:970:517
Survey of Planning Law Principles (3)
Introduction to the legal principles involved in the planning process. Zoning, subdivision, housing, eminent domain, and comparative land-use systems used to introduce principles of constitutional and administrative law; and the law of contracts, property, torts, and procedure.
Required for M.C.R.P. degree.
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34:970:520
Planning and Land-Use Administration (3)
Practice-oriented course on state and local growth management, local planning and land-use administration, local affordable housing programs, and related topics.
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34:970:521
Historic Preservation (3)
Overview of the evolution of the historic preservation
movement in the United States, examining the regulations, programs, and economics
impacting historic preservation.
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34:970:522
International Historic Preservations (3)
Overview of the evolution of the historic preservation movement in an international context, examining the regulations, programs, and economics impacting historic preservation.
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34:970:523
Environmental Law and Policy (3)
Legal principles involved in protecting the environment, including air, water, and noise pollution; control of population growth and distribution; and ecological aspects of land-use control.
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34:970:524
Ethics in Planning and Policy (3)
Students examine two seminal papers for evidence, one on planning, the other on public policy. They determine what ethical claims, explicit or implicit, planning and public policy make for themselves.
Credit not given for this course and 34:833:524.
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34:970:525
Property Theory and Policy (3)
Policies and practices that determine patterns of
ownership, use, economy, and justice in alternative property regimes are critically
examined.
Topics include private,
public, and common property rights in housing, urban space, and environmental
resources.
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34:970:527
Advanced Multivariate Methods (3)
Multivariate statistical methods used to analyze land-use, environmental, public health, and other large data sets.
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34:970:528
Housing Economy and Markets (3)
Demographic shifts and changing housing need/demand parameters, evolution of housing supply patterns and cost trends, and market interrelationships. Historic trendlines and future directions evaluated. Current issues and policies examined.
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34:970:529
Principles of Housing (3)
Housing and development policy as it has evolved historically and as it is being practiced currently on the federal, state, and local levels. Basic economic factors affecting housing, political context, and social outcomes.
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34:970:530
International Urbanization and Housing Issues (3)
Study of third-world housing policy and informal, low-income housing
throughout the world. Topics include privatization of informal housing
markets, best practices, children in cities, community participation, disaster management, gender, sustainable
practices, tenure, and technology.
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34:970:532
Bridging Public Health and Urban Planning (3)
This course seeks to build literacy among planners
about public health issues. No health background is necessary. Explores how city planning decisions affect the people that live in them.
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34:970:553
Transportation and Environment (3)
Focus on the interrelationship between transportation and the environment, including environmental impacts caused by various types of transportation, technology, and policy solutions.
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34:970:554
Transportation and Land Use (3)
Controversies associated with transportation, land
use, and development practices. Focus on economic theory and academic studies
examining travel impacts, particularly parking and the impacts of personal
motorized transportation.
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34:970:555
Urban Transportation Policy (3)
Overview of major policy issues in urban transportation systems; interdependence of transportation with urban land-use patterns. Problems of the present auto-dominated system examined, and alternative solutions analyzed in the context of the changing political/institutional environment.
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34:970:556
Urban Transportation Planning (3)
Urban transportation planning and programming process, with particular emphasis on the methods used at the metropolitan and local levels to gather and analyze appropriate data for decision making, evaluate alternative plans and programs, and fund and implement selected proposals. Integrated approach to conceptualizing and operationalizing various techniques, encompassing both land-use and transportation modeling and administrative and fiscal structures.
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34:970:557
International Transport Policy and Planning (3)
A comparative analysis of transportation systems, problems, policies, and travel behavior around the world, including North America; Western Europe; Japan; the formerly socialist countries of Eastern Europe; and developing countries in Africa, South America, and Asia.
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34:970:558
Public Transit Planning and Management (3)
Overview of transit policy and planning issues with
particular reference to the United States. Includes planning and operations methods
across conventional fixed route transit and paratransit systems, and newer
concepts such as quality of service and the community transit system approach.
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34:970:559
Transportation Risk and Security (3)
Students develop and complete an integrated project covering risk management, risk communication, port security, public health response, surface transportation security, natural hazards, and the social aspects of disasters.
This is the capstone course for students seeking the Transportation, Vulnerability, Risk and Security (TVRS) certificate.
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34:970:561
Urban Poverty Theory and Policy (3)
The problem of persistent urban poverty in the United States, primarily from the period beginning with the War on Poverty in the early 1960s. Examines issues such as how is poverty defined, how the face of poverty has changed, the feminization of poverty, and the shortcomings of strategies to address poverty.
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34:970:562
Community Economic Development (3)
Theory about what economic development is and what economic developers do. Economic development contexts of different types of regions, such as resource regions, high-tech regions, and older industrial regions.
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34:970:563
Community Development (3)
Overview of the history of community development and challenges to the dominant perspective, as well as the range of institutional factors shaping the field. Develops student skills appropriate to work in the field through course assignments.
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34:970:571
Industrial Ecology (3)
Explores the metaphor of industrial ecology and tests whether it is a framework for implementing sustainable development. Evaluates current research and practice in industrial ecology at the macrolevel (materials and energy flows), mesolevel (morphology and structure), organizational level (how firms work), and microlevel (individual motives and behaviors). Examines the implications for environmental planning and policy.
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34:970:572
Green Building (3)
This graduate seminar focuses on the green building phenomenon. It provides a multidisciplinary, rigorous, and practical introduction to green building.
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34:970:581
Gender and International Development (3)
Overview of competing theories of development planning and feminist critiques of current theory and planning practice. Examine gender dimensions of demography; environmental problems; organization of space; and gender research, training programs, and evaluation projects.
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34:970:585
Tourism Planning (3)
Analysis of the largest industry by value globally. Rise of mass tourism and marketing tourism destinations. Economic, environmental, social, and political impacts of tourism nationally and internationally.
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34:970:590
Graphical Communication for Planners (3)
Focus on the
basic graphic skills necessary to communicate the visual and spatial
characteristics of streets, buildings, and neighborhoods using AutoCAD, SketchUp,
and photo simulations.
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34:970:591
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Planning and Policy (3)
Introduces basic concepts of geographic information science and its computer applications.
Pre- or corequisite: 34:970:515 or 516 or equivalent.
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34:970:592
Topics in Geographic Information Science (3)
Includes advanced geographic information science (GIS) topics, spatial statistics, and specialized computer applications.
Pre- or corequisite: 34:970:591.
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34:970:594
Program Evaluation (3)
The procedures and techniques used to scientifically
document the implications of professional interventions. Conceptual, measurement,
and analytic tools including activities and objectives, monitoring and
measurement, design of monitoring and social experiments, and impact analysis.
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34:970:600
Planning and Design I (3)
Planning and design process, history of design, basic graphic techniques, environmental analysis, and conceptualization of the 10 basic design principles.
Prior design training not necessary.
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34:970:601
Planning and Design II (3)
Planning and design process, history of design, basic graphic techniques, environmental analysis, and conceptualization of the 10 basic design principles.
Prior design training not necessary.
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34:970:604
Land Development Practice (3)
Emphasizes private decision making and development, publicly supported development, and the impact of public control on private development.
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34:970:605
Planning Real Estate Analysis (3)
Provides students with the basics of real estate analysis: fiscal analysis/impact fees, appraisal skills, financial analysis, and hazard mitigation/adaptation strategies.
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34:970:608
Health and Human Rights (3)
Covers human
rights law, its uses in wartime, the theoretical reframing of women's rights,
and its application to health and health care.
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34:970:609
Social Policy in Developing Nations (3)
Social policy issues and the priorities of developing countries and their ability to achieve balanced economic and social development. Sectors covered include food, health, housing, energy, and education.
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34:970:612
Research Strategies (3)
This course serves
as a guide for developing a research proposal. Focus on developing research
questions, theories, and hypotheses; measurement and instrumentation; causal
inference; sampling; and data analysis.
Credit not given for this course and 16:762:612 or 34:833:612.
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34:970:615,616
Directed Study in Urban Planning (3,3)
Directed study with an individual faculty member with approval of the program director.
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34:970:618
Environmental Planning and Management (3)
Institutional, technical, procedural, and normative
factors that influence environmental planning and policy. Topics include
environmental decision making, stakeholders, methods, process issues, and
decision criteria. Case studies and in-class exercises put topics into context.
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34:970:619
Environmental Economics and Policy (3)
The role of economics in environmental
issues and, especially, in the formation of environmental policy including
environmental problems in air, water, land use, and natural environments.
Credit not given for this course and 34:833:619.
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34:970:620
Energy Sustainability and Policy (3)
Examines energy policy and planning through a timely, critical, and
practical approach designed to give students an insight into the factors that
shape energy policy.
Credit not given for this course and 34:833:680.
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34:970:622
Urban Redevelopment (3)
The evolution of urban redevelopment activities in
the United States, post-World War II. Examines the successes and failures of urban
renewal, public housing, historic preservation, business improvement districts,
enterprise and empowerment zones, targeted incentives, and the public provision
of cultural and tourism infrastructure.
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34:970:624
Planning, Public Policy, and Social Theory (3)
Examines the
intersection of planning and public policy through the theories and practices
of the two fields. Focus on the policy-analytic roles played by the actors
particularly as they relate knowledge to action.
Credit not given for this course and 16:762:624 and 34:833:624.
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34:970:630
Discrete Choice Methods (3)
This course begins with a review of linear regression and focuses on categorical dependent variables. Methods will include linear probability, logit, probit, multinomial, and conditional logit models.
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34:970:633
Demography and Population Studies (3)
Basic
demographic concepts, methods, and their application. Population growth,
mortality, fertility, migration, and marriage patterns.
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34:970:636
Internship in Urban Planning (3)
Internship in governmental, nonprofit, or private organization focusing on substantive urban planning issues.
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34:970:643
Major Debates in International Development (3)
Begins with an introduction to development and foreign aid and is followed by
major debates that are shaping discussion on international development. Topics
will vary according to their timely nature.
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34:970:644
International Economic Development (3)
Theories, techniques, administration, information systems, and core processes of regional planning, including techniques for regional disaggregation of national plans, regional income and multiplier, input-output table, shift-share analysis, economic base analysis, and project evaluation.
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34:970:645
Regional Development (3)
Theories of development, underdevelopment, and uneven development in developing countries and regions in relation to the international economic order; the role of multinational corporations and international development agencies; national and regional development strategies and policies and emerging alternative perspectives.
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34:970:646
Global Restructuring (3)
Defines the nature and causes of global political,
economic, and territorial restructuring; assesses the impact of globalization
on industries, local communities, nations, and international relations. Implications
for world development, planning, and public policy with emerging alternatives.
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34:970:651 to 674
Seminars in Urban Planning (3 each)
Lectures and special problems on current issues.
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This course listing is current as of September 1, 2015.
For the most updated listing of courses, please visit the Bloustein School website.
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