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200 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. The history of city planning and the city planning profession in the context of urban history. Principal focus on the evolution of North American planning practice and theory since the late 19th century; some comparative and earlier material. Extended Course Description Introduction Requirements **The exam on which you perform better will be weighted more heavily in your course grade Readings CY PLAN
204A (2,4) Three hours of lecture and one and one-half hours laboratory per week. Introduction to the use of quantitative reasoning and statistical techniques to solve planning and policy problems. Course focuses on (I) basic planning techniques for analyzing and presenting secondary data, preparing forecasts, and conducting regional economic analysis (weeks 1-8); (II) inferential statistics and sampling, as applied to planning problems; and (III) basic multivariate techniques such as chi-squared and linear regression and advanced multivariate techniques such as multiple regression (weeks 9-15). For the two-unit option, students may take the first half of the class (weeks 1-8). Extended Course Description CP 204A introduces quantitative methods for describing, analyzing, and modeling data in city and regional planning. It covers a variety of methods, from exploratory data analysis to population modeling to multiple regression analysis. We keep statistical formulas and proofs to a minimum. Instead, we emphasize building a conceptual framework and gaining practical skills for conducting data analysis in city planning. We also teach the use of a computer as a tool for data presentations and analyses. CP 204A is organized into two parts. Part I (weeks 1-7) deals with Analysis of Secondary Data (mainly from the census), in particular tract-, city-, and metropolitan-level data on population and employment. Focusing on applied planning methods, it presents a variety of techniques for analyzing and presenting secondary data, preparing population and economic forecasts, and conducting regional economic analysis. Part II (weeks 7-15) focuses on the range of Statistical Tools available for analyzing primary data (mainly samples from surveys). It deals with inferential statistics (“how sure am I of this typical value?”), bivariate measures of association (“how do two variables vary across cases in relation to one another?”), and introductory modeling. It concludes with the use of regression analysis to help explain policy-relevant outcomes (“to what degree does rent control increase housing prices?”) and predict (“if residential densities increase, on average, by 25 percent, how much will transit ridership likely rise?”). CY PLAN
205 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. An introduction to the American legal process and legal framework within which public policy and planning problems are addressed. The course stresses legal methodology, the basics of legal research, and the common-law decisional method. Statutory analysis, administrative law, and constitutional interpretation are also covered. Case topics focus on the law of planning, property rights, land use regulation, and access to housing. Extended Course Description Objectives
Assigned Readings and Method of Instruction
As in past years, I use the case study method to teach this course. Requirements Instructor I hold a Master's degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a law degree from Hastings College of the Law, where I was a member of the Hastings Constitutional Quarterly. I am a member of the California State Bar and a Charter Member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. CY PLAN
C213 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: 113A or equivalent. Examination of the interactions between transportation and land use systems; historical perspectives on transportation; characteristics of travel and demand estimation; evaluation of system performance; location theory; models of transportation and urban structure; empirical evidence of transportation-land use impacts; case study examinations. Also listed as Civil and Environmental Engineering C290U. Extended Course Description The United States continues to grow and urbanize and people are traveling more than ever. When the economy is good, traffic gets worse, pollution intensifies, more greenhouse gases are emitted, and more land is consumed. Building roads and highways has become more difficult and less popular, and the funding for new roads and transit systems has become more constrained. Many state and local governments have therefore been pursuing policies such as transit-oriented development and smart growth programs, urban growth boundaries, and zoning code reform. These regulatory interventions don’t require public funds, and they are thought to decrease auto use and increase walking and transit use. Economists have long argued that such efforts are relatively inefficient solutions to congestion, pollution and sprawl. But better options like road pricing and spatially efficient development impact fees are harder to implement. Advocates for smart growth, transit oriented development, and new urbanism believe that their policies will make things better. Property rights advocates, along with a large share of the general public, are opposed. In this course we try to better understand what is going on, based on history, theory, and research. Does a less sprawling city lead to more transit use? What exactly is it about high-density environments that gets people out of their cars? Will people walk to work a block away if they can easily drive? As it turns out, these are not simple questions. So we spend much of the time of the course learning what is well understood and what is controversial. This course focuses on providing an historical and theoretical understanding of interrelationships between urban form, land development, transportation investments, and household travel, with a focus on U.S. urban areas. Students will apply that understanding to critically reading and evaluating empirical research and policy recommendations, in several ways: by discussing and debating the readings, by writing a paper incorporating key historical and theoretical information and applying important concepts; and by taking a final examination to demonstrate their understanding. In order to incentivize the reading, which is intensive, weekly reading questions are given in class. There is also a term paper or case study; weekly reading presentations; and a final exam in essay format. Depending on enrollment, these assignments may be altered. Most readings will be either in a reader (at Krishna Copy) or online. There are also three required books for the course, the main one being The transportation / land use connection, 2nd edition, by Terry Moore and Paul Thorsnes with Bruce Appleyard (American Planning Association, 2007, ISBN 978-1-932364-42-2). The others are Crabgrass frontier: The suburbanization of the United States, by Kenneth Jackson (Oxford University Press, 1985) and The geography of urban transportation, 3rd edition, edited by Susan Hanson and Genevieve Giuliano (2004, The Guilford Press). All can be purchased in used and new versions from various online booksellers. CY PLAN
214 (3) Three hours of lecture/seminar per week. Survey of basic knowledge and technology of physical infrastructure systems: transportation, water supply, wastewater, storm water, solid waste management, community energy facilities, and urban public facilities. Environmental and energy impacts of infrastructure development; centralized vs. decentralized systems; case studies. Extended Course Description Organization Part I: Context and Policy FrameworkIntroduction to infrastructure and its importanceInfrastructure Basics Part II: Infrastructure Systems Part III: Infrastructure Implementation Techniques and Issues Prerequisites and Criteria for Evaluation: Write three memoranda—you will be asked to prepare a 5-7 page memo on an assigned topic from each part of the course: Memo 1 due September 23 (15 percent); Memo 2 due October 21 (25 percent) and Memo 3 due December 9 (35 percent). All readings are available in electronic format CY PLAN
220 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: 113A or equivalent. Analysis of the urban, metropolitan, and regional economy for planning. Economic base and other macro models; impact analysis and projection of changing labor force and industrial structure; economic-demographic interaction; issues in growth, income distribution, planning controls; interregional growth and population distribution issues. Extended Course Description Dramatic changes in the economic role of cities and metropolitan regions in recent decades underscore the need for planners and policy-makers to understand the spatial dimensions and dynamics of economic growth. Physical and social planners increasingly operate within the constraints of the metropolitan regional economy, which largely determine the region’s income and employment level, occupational structure, and socio-spatial patterns of opportunity and inequality. At the same time, economic development planners must increasingly take into account global structural forces that impact regions and constrain their development. Across the policy space of city and regional planning, practitioners need to have a working understand of both the dynamics of economic growth within cities and regions as well as how they fit into the wider economic and institutional context. This course examines the urban and regional economy as a social and intellectual history aimed at achieving this practical understanding. The first section surveys the evolution of theories of industrial location and urban and regional growth through the mid-20th century. It focuses as well on policy experience, drawing case material from both advanced industrial and developing countries. The course then examines the impacts of technological change, globalization and the reorganization of production on cities and regions, and how this has altered the theory and practice of regional economic development. Last, it surveys current trends in urban and regional economic development policy, including attempts to promote high tech development, initiatives to promote industrial clusters, policy efforts around specific regional factor conditions (such as university research and workforce development), and the potential role of social capital in re-shaping our communities and regions. The requirements for this course are three-fold: 1. Completing five brief commentaries (no more than 3 pages) on the weekly readings, five times during the semester. You can do this any week you want, but you must submit the summaries during the same week of the readings. (25%) 2. A 90 minute mid-term examination will be administered in class around the 8th week of class. (25%) 3. A three hour final examination held during exam week after class ends (50%). CY PLAN
238 (4) Two hours of lecture/seminar and four hours of studio per week. Prerequisites: CY PLAN 235. Studio experience in analysis, policy advising, and project design or general plan preparation for urban communities undergoing development, with a focus on site development and project planning. Extended Course Description To come. CY PLAN
C241 (4) Three hours of lecture/seminar and two hours of laboratory per week. Formerly Interdepartmental Studies 241. The components, structure, and meaning of the urban environment. Environmental problems, attitudes, and criteria. Environmental survey, analysis, and interview techniques. Methods of addressing environmental quality. Environmental simulation. Also listed as Landscape Architecture C241. Extended Course Description Summary of LD ARCH C241 Student Research Projects [pdf] Intent The course is about research methods that designers and planning professionals use to analyze and evaluate urban places, be they buildings, transportation routes, or open spaces. The urban environment will be viewed primarily as a social and psychological environment. Evaluation will therefore always be tied to a social and psychological environment. We shall be concerned with who environments are for, who uses them, and the conflicts that can arise between user groups. We are concerned, as well, with measuring and testing various urban environments in relation to peoples' values and with social interaction as a determinant or response to physical design. Environmental design and planning is inevitably a form of micro·politics. Evaluation will be seen as a basis for citizen involvement and environmental improvements rather than ends in themselves. Subject Matter The principal topics to be covered will be:
Teaching Method The basic teaching method will be lectures by the instructor and by visitors, group discussions, and case studies carried out by groups of students under supervision of the instructor. The main workload of the students will be to carry out their own case studies. Students are encouraged to work in small groups. Each student will become an expert in one environment or project by the end of the semester by carrying through a pilot environmental evaluation. There will be suggestions for case studies, and students must make their own choice during the first week of class. Abstracts of previous work in the course are on the course website. Readings This is a field in which there is no single text. There are several books that cover parts of the subject. A short list of readings will accompany each lecture for further reference, and a bibliography will be available. Details later. Participation The course is directed especially at city planners, landscape architects, architects, and transportation planners. Landscape and city planning students will have priority if the class gets too large. Grading Work on case studies as a group — 60% CY PLAN
249 (3) Three hours of seminar/discussion per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Formerly Interdepartmental Studies 249. This seminar will focus on urban design in the planning process, the role of environmental surveys, methods of community involvement, problem identification, goal formulation and alternatives generation, environmental media and presentation, design guidelines and review, environmental evaluation and impact assessment. Case studies. Extended Course Description Urban design is concerned with place-making, with creating cities and neighborhoods that are comfortable, responsive, and enriching places for people to live, work, and visit. It is a holistic process that is about making better places for people than would otherwise be produced. This course is about the nuts and bolts of urban physical place-making to respond to people’s desires for what their cities should/could be. Subject matters include current contexts for urban design; the many dimensions of urban design; the role of urban design in the development process; different urban design roles and levels of influence; public sector urban design; framework plans, design guidelines, and implementation strategies; and best practice urban design. Urban Design Case Study Project Readings and Class Preparation For each class session, students must prepare a short “writing” that identifies key insights gained from the required readings and be prepared to contribute these thoughts to the class discussion. For those class sessions with a very large number of readings, responsibility for writing on specific readings will be distributed among the students. Evaluation of Students CY PLAN
C251 (3) Three hours of lecture per week. Formerly 251. This course will examine emerging trends in environmental planning and policy and the basic regulatory framework for environmental planning encountered in the U.S. We will also relate the institutional and policy framework of California and the United States to other nations and emerging international institutions. The emphasis of the course will be on regulating "residuals" as they affect three media: air, water, and land. Also listed as Landscape Architecture C231. Extended Course Description To come. CY PLAN
254 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course examines and explores the concept of sustainable development at the community level. The course has three sections: (1) an introduction to the discourse on sustainable development; (2) an exploration of several leading attempts to incorporate sustainability principles into plans, planning, and urban design; (3) an examination of European attempts to establish metropolitan patterns and urban designs for a more sustainable "green urbanism." Extended Course Description To come. CY PLAN
256 (3) Three hours of lecture per week. Exploration of common origins of urban planning and public health, from why and how the fields separated and strategies to reconnect them, to addressing urban health inequities in the 21st century. Inquiry to influences of urban population health, analysis of determinants, and roles that city planning and public health agencies - at local and international level - have in research, and action aimed at improving urban health. Measures, analysis, and design of policy strategies are explored. Extended Course Description To come. CY PLAN
260 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Formerly CY PLAN 268. This course will explore the theory, history, methods, and practice of local community development. The course will begin by examining the historical roots of community involvement and action. It will present alternative explanations for different paths of neighborhood and community change. Extended Course Description Community development, understood most broadly as the effort to improve the quality of life in low-income communities, has existed in different forms for centuries. However, it is only in the last few decades that the fields of urban politics, urban sociology, urban economics, and city planning (among others) have developed a sophisticated understanding of how communities work, and community development practices are still evolving today. In fact, though many think of the 1960s and 1970s as the peak of the community development movement, the emergence of new approaches to community development, the increasing effectiveness of community-level interventions, and the growth of interdisciplinary interest in the field together suggest that the field has finally come of age. This course explores the history, theory, and practice of community development. We begin with a brief overview of the antecedents of today’s community development, from the public health movement to early sociological theories to 20th century interventions by the public sector. For the next three weeks, our inquiry turns to theories of community development, from neoclassical and Marxist economics, sociology, political science, and planning. The remainder of the course examines community development practice: its evolution and current forms. We turn first to the shift in housing policy, from concentration to dispersal. Related to this policy shift is the emergence of community development corporations and the transformation of the nonprofit sector as the state retrenches from urban policy. Globalization and immigration patterns have also transformed communities: capital flight and access to capital are reshaping communities, and global labor flows make transnational communities the norm rather than the exception in the U.S. The final seven weeks of the course provide a survey of current community development practice, including redevelopment, comprehensive community building initiatives, community economic development, asset-building, equitable development in the face of gentrification, community benefits, faith-based organizations, and new initiatives in crime, health, and education. A variety of guest lecturers will join us to speak about cutting-edge practices and obstacles in implementation. We conclude with a look at communities in the metropolitan region and the quest for community economic justice in the global era. CY PLAN
C261 (3) Students will not receive credit for C261 after taking City and Regional Planning 208, Interdepartmental Studies 206 Fall 1990, and Interdepartmental Studies 206 Fall 1991. Three hours of lecture/seminar per week. Formerly Interdepartmental Studies 223.An examination of the roles of the citizens and citizen organizations in the city planning process. Models for citizen involvement ranging from advising to community control. Examination of the effectiveness of different organizational models in different situations. Also listed as Landscape Architecture C242. Extended Course Description To come. CY PLAN
275 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Formerly CY PLAN 262. Description, analysis, and evaluation of urban policies in a variety of social and spatial contexts, with references to state-planned societies. Main topics: national and local public policies in regional development, housing, transportation, urban renewal, citizen participation, social services, and decentralized urban management. Extended Course Description Important processes of urban transformation are under way in all regions of globe. They present challenges both for urban theory and for the formulation of urban policies. These changes force reconsiderations of dominant theoretical models in at least two substantial ways. On the one hand, they show the limits of urban theories formulated in relation to the modern industrial city. On the other, they expose the problems of taking Western European or North American processes of urbanization as norms. The aim of this course is to identify and analyze current patterns of urbanization and urban restructuring that shape metropolises of the global South, which nowadays are responsible for the largest share of urbanization in the world. The course will juxtapose contemporary transformations in metropolises of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Eastern Europe. These juxtapositions will be organized around a series of themes that articulate the main changes in contemporary modes of urbanization and formulation of urban policies. The themes include: flows, infrastructures, theme parks, enclaves, zones, inequalities, illegalities, and citizenship. CY PLAN
280A (3) Formerly 280. This course is designed for students working on their dissertation research plan and prospectus. Weekly writing assignments designed to work through each step of writing the prospectus from problem framing and theoretical framework to methodology. At least one oral presentation to the class is required of all students. CY PLAN
280C (3) Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit. Advanced study in city and regional planning. CY PLAN
282 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Origins and evolution of the idea of planning. Values, choice, and purposive behavior; knowledge and social action; rationales for governmental intervention in self-regulating social systems. Alternative planning strategies for conditions of uncertainty in the absence of science-based knowledge. Traditions in Planning Thought and Practice Course organization: Requirements: The required texts for this course are:
A reader containing other assigned articles and excerpts has been prepared. Code: V=vital, P=on practice. CY PLAN
290 (1–3) Three hours of lecture and discussion per week per module. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit. Analysis of selected topics in city and metropolitan planning with emphasis on implications for planning practice and urban policy formation. In some semesters, optional five-week, 1-unit modules may be offered, taking advantage of guest visitors. CY PLAN 290A Overview of the Workshop There will be three tracks: one for students who are just starting to select a topic, those who have a topic and will be graduating in May 2010; and the third track will be for those who are writing and intend to graduate or complete the PR by December 09. The first two meetings: Wed Aug 26 & Wed Sept 2nd will be for all second year MCP students. Thereafter, the tracks for the May grads will meet on Monday (Section 1: Developing Topic) or Wednesday (Section 2: May Grads Further Along) from 11:30 to 12:30. The time for the track for the December 09 completers (Section 3) will be determined by the group. Although there will be periodic lectures throughout the semester, the workshop is designed to be informal to meet the diversity of topics and approaches that characterize DCRP final papers and projects! There will be in-class writing and brainstorming exercises. Advising appointments are available for more individual attention. Course Requirements Class requirements include submission of three small papers (problem sets) which track the Departmental requirements for the PR/CR/Thesis. The formal class documents will be on b-Space, and there will be a small reader available at Kinko’s/Telegraph by the third week of class onward. The following texts are recommended but not required.
CY PLAN 290C This half-semester course (which runs from October 12-December 9) is designed to acquaint students with the theory and practice of survey research as a primary means of data collection. It covers all of the steps in conceptualizing, designing, conducting, and analyzing a survey, through lectures, readings, discussions, exercises, and individual student projects covering the basics of the major stages of survey research. Topics covered in the course include: developing a research question and hypotheses; designing a study; conceptualizing, operationalizing, and measuring variables; sampling; survey instrumentation and pretesting; survey approaches (including internet, mail, and telephone, as well as focus groups); survey ethics; survey participation, incentives, and nonresponse; evaluating survey questions; coding and data processing; and basic statistics for survey data analysis. Throughout the semester, the class will discuss examples of surveys for a variety of different groups: households, entire communities, parks and community facility users, workers, firms, commuters, and so forth. We will pay particular attention to the difficulties of conducting small-sample research. The class will involve weekly assignments building towards the final project (a survey analysis and write-up). It is offered for either one or two credits. In the one-credit option, students complete all the assignments based on a group survey research project. For two credits, students do assignments using their own independent project. Texts for the class will include selections from Dillman, Mail and Internet Surveys, and Babbie, Survey Research Methods; a reader will also be available. CY PLAN
298 (1–3) Course may be repeated for credit. One to three hours of independent study per week. Sections A-L to be graded on a letter-graded basis. Sections M-Z to be graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Section C to be graded on an In-Progress basis only. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Topics to be announced at beginning of each semester. No more than 3 units may be taken in one section. CY PLAN 298 SEC 1 CY PLAN 298 SEC 2 This course is open only to Master of Urban Design Students. Course Description Objectives Reading
Students need not purchase these textbooks, but may wish to use them as background references. They will be held on reserve at the CED library. Assignments Students will prepare a short (5-10 page) analysis of the economic factors influencing an urban design project undertaken during the course of the semester. CY PLAN
299 (1–12) Three hours of lecture and discussion per week per module. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit. Analysis of selected topics in city and metropolitan planning with emphasis on implications for planning practice and urban policy formation. In some semesters, optional five-week, 1-unit modules may be offered, taking advantage of guest visitors. CY PLAN
602 (1–8) Regular meeting to be arranged. Prerequisites: Ph.D. students only. Course may be repeated for credit. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D. May not be used for unit or residence requirements for the doctoral degree. Students may earn 1-8 units of 602 per semester or 1-4 units per summer session. No student may accumulate more than a total of 16 units of 602. |