Introduction to current American-city planning processes and urban form through historic evolution of urban problems and related urban-planning systems since 1900. Not open to students with credit for 300 or 743 or 811.

This class is taught on a rotating basis with Professors Hazel Morrow-Jones, and Jennifer Evans Cowley. The 2005 offering taught by Dr. Manta Conroy focused on Living Life on the Edge - Consequences for the Urban - Rural Fringe in Columbus, Ohio and Dresden, Germany. Students explored problems that arise as development and the natural environment come into conflict. Dr. Conroy will teach the course again in spring 2008. More course information can be found at the CRP-Dresden exchange web site.               

Introduction to application and utilization of environmental considerations in the formulation of land-use policy and development plans. Prerequisite: 745 or permission of instructor.

This course has been designed as an introduction to the concept of sustainable development as it relates to planning practice.  The focus of the course will be on the relationship between land use planning and sustainable development. The course is offered as a studio with an on-going working relationship with a steering committee external to the University.

Independent studies offer students the oppportunity to explore new topics, or to get more in depth on a topic of interest. Students can do either self-guided computer program instruction (e.g., Excel, Access, PowerPoint), or research based work. Students may also propose their own ideas for individual or group study efforts. One such topic proposed for summer 2006 is the Detroit trip proposed by Juana Sandoval.

This course covers techniques of negotiation and bargaining for the resolution of development related disputes. These public disputes involve government agencies and private sector actors locked into interdependent situations, where each must trade with the other in order to resolve development disagreements. Because it is a hands-on skill-building course, students play active roles in discovering, applying, and critiquing concepts and methods that work in different types of disputes.

The planning profession has increasingly adopted the use of computers into the management and analysis of information needed to make rational planning decisions. In addition, as the popularity of computers as business and home productivity tools increases, planners will be able to take advantage of the computer as a communication tool--promulgating broad discussions of community issues. Students will be introduced to the use of the productivity and communications tools used by planners for these purposes. Please note: this class is no longer offered on a regular basis,though material can be covered as an independent study.