Foundational Electives
PD 508 Race, Class, Gender, and the City
Explores race, class, and gender as social constructs and examines the comparative nature of racial classification systems in the United States and elsewhere. Examines how relationships among economic development, public policy, and residential patterns constrain the development of communities of color. Emphasis on how planners can rebuild inner city neighborhoods within a metropolitan context.
PD 535 Governance and Management
Introduces key political and managerial concepts to diagnose, understand, analyze, and effectively shape and intervene in political environments at the neighborhood to global scale. Examines the role of structures, institutions, change agents, the media, experts, citizens, and major economic players in setting agendas, shaping policy, and implementing programs in urban and regional settings.
PD 538 Economic Concepts and Contexts
Provides students with the economic language and concepts critical for understanding and intervening in planning and policy. Applies basic economic concepts, the economics of markets, rationales for market intervention, and the economic pros and cons of alternative policy interventions in housing, transportation, poverty, environmental resources, land use and development, regional competition, economic development, and international trade.
PD 567 Planning Law
Explores historical and legal foundations of planning and land use. Examines legal method and theory, and reviews applicable common law, regulatory and statutory law, and constitutional provisions that affect land use and planning choices and outcomes. Provides legal perspective on zoning policies, environmental regulations, housing, and other planning areas of interest.
PD 573 Land Use and Physical Planning
Introduces physical planning ideas and methods relevant to planning. Surveys the evolution of physical planning and design as professional fields, and introduces key theories and debates relevant to land use, physical planning, location analysis, environmental science, and planmaking.
