Urban Design
465 Urban Planning and Design 1 (3 cr)
Current practice of urban design in the United States and its context. Examination of new opportunities and constraints in environmental assessment; decision making and management structure in local government; mechanisms for land-use controls or incentives; public investment strategy and case studies assessing major development strategies used in today's practice. (Cross-listed with PD 565.)
466 Urban Planning and Design 2 (3 cr)
Principles and perceptions of urban form. Analyzes elements of urban form to establish morphological framework of cities. Focuses on literature and theories of urban form. Compares generic, as well as unique, patterns of urban form; processes by which that form has evolved; typological principles that transcend culture, time, and place. (Cross-listed with PD 566.)
479 Sustainable Design (3 cr)
Offers a working understanding of the issues inherent in the discourse of sustainability as it occurs in the design and planning professions. Students explore the practical and theoretical relationships among urban form, democratic ideals, and ecological imaginations.
