GIS and Planning Technologies
Planners increasingly make use of a wide variety of planning tools and technologies, including geographic information systems (GIS) software, urban visualization and simulation software, forecasting methods, and other interactive information techniques. This specialization prepares students to understand and use these tools, with special emphasis on their applications to planning decision making.
Curriculum
Intro Courses
- PD 569 GIS Applications
Methods Course
- PD 570 GIS for Planning
Elective Courses (minimum two)
- PD 523 New Media in Planning
- PD 571 Urban Simulation
- PD 577 Planning in Action
- ARC 611 Computer Modeling
- CIE 507 GIS Applications
- GEO 550 Intro to Graduate Cartography
- GEO 551 Cartography and Geographic Visualization
- GEO 552 GIS and Environmental Modeling
- GEO 553 Remote Sensing
- GEO 597 Geostatistics
- GEO 605 Spatial Statistics
Recommended Foundational Electives
- PD 573 Land Use and Physical Planning
Culminating Exercise (choose one)
- Thesis on topic in GIS and Planning Technologies
- Professional Project on GIS and Planning Technologies
