| Fall 2009 Lower- and Upper-Division Courses |
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CY PLAN
110 (4) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week, plus additional fieldwork. Open to majors in all fields. Survey of city planning as it has evolved in the United States since 1800 in response to physical, social, and economic problems; major concepts and procedures used by city planners and local governments to improve the urban environment. Extended Course Description To come. CY PLAN
112A (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Open to all majors in all fields. Planning is often called for in response to societal crises; thus, nature and criticisms of the planning idea, appropriateness of planning, sources of legitimacy for and justification of planning, and future directions of the planning idea are examined. Extended Course Description To come. CY PLAN 113A (3) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Introduction to economic concepts and thinking as used in planning. Micro-economic theory is reviewed and critiqued. Extended Course Description To come. CY PLAN 114 (3) Three hours of lecture per week. This course is designed to introduce students to the characteristics of urban transportation systems, the methods through which they are planned and analyzed, and the dimensions of key policy issues confronting decision makers. Extended Course Description To come. CY PLAN
115 (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. The course covers issues of development and urbanization from the era of colonialism to the era of contemporary globalization. Themes include modernization, urban informality and poverty, transnational economies, and the role of international institutions and agencies. Extended Course Description This course is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at UC Berkeley. There are no prerequisites for the class although students should be prepared to tackle advanced social science readings and analysis. The Global Poverty class has the following pedagogical goals. It seeks to train students to become participants in the global debates about poverty, development, and inequality. In doing so, it teaches students about different models and paradigms of poverty-alleviation and different methodologies for evaluating these. It also highlights the most current and important cases in different sectors of poverty-alleviation. The key element of the Global Poverty class is that all such issues are situated in the broader context of development theories and practices. In other words, the class links the millennial imagination for ending poverty with the long and contentious history of 20th century development. While the emphasis is on the project of development with its distinctive apparatus of knowledge and policy, the class is also concerned with the role of civil society actors, social movements, corporations, private foundations, and global campaigns in seeking to tackle poverty. Similarly, while the emphasis of the class is on the experiences of the global South, it is also concerned with poverty and inequality everywhere, including deprivation in the global North. CY PLAN
118AC (4) Three hours of lecture/seminar and one hour of discussion per week. This course looks at the idea and practice of community in cities and suburbs and at the dynamics of neighborhood and community formation. Topics include urban social geography, ethnicity, and identity, residential choice behavior, the political economy of neighborhoods, planning for neighborhoods and civic engagement. Extended Course Description To come. CY PLAN 119 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: Open to majors in all fields. This course examines how the concept of sustainable development applies to cities and urban regions and gives students insight into a variety of contemporary urban planning issues through the sustainability lens. The course combines lectures, discussions, student projects, and guest appearances by leading practitioners in Bay Area sustainability efforts. Ways to coordinate goals of environment, economy, and equity at different scales of planning are addressed, including the region, the city, the neighborhood, and the site. Extended Course Description To come. CY PLAN
140 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. The course is concerned with the multidisciplinary field and practice of urban design. It includes a review of historical approaches to urban design and current movements in the field, as well as discussion of the elements of urban form, theories of good city form, scales of urban design, implementation approaches, and challenges and opportunities for the discipline. Learning from cities via fieldwork is an integral part of the course. Extended Course Description This course will introduce students to the field and practice of urban design. The objective is to provide a foundation for understanding the various dimensions of urban design, how urban design is practiced, the role of urban design within the development process, and key issues and challenges facing urban designers today. Learning about cities via fieldwork is an integral part of the course. The concerns of urban design are diverse and multidisciplinary, encompassing perspectives, skills, and theories from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning. Urban designers work at a range of scales—region, city, neighborhood, and lot—and are concerned with the interrelationships between scales. They deal with large-scale citywide design issues, such as city pattern and street and block layouts, but also with smaller scale local issues such as designs for streets and public open spaces. Urban designers may work to shape the form of specific places within cities, such as downtowns, shopping areas, cultural precincts, or they may design citywide systems such as streets, greenways, and public open space systems. The may design small infill projects for existing cities and neighborhoods, or they may design large-scale master plans or framework plans to control development at the metropolitan edge or on large parcels within existing cities being redeveloped for different uses. The discipline of urban design is concerned with notions of the “good city.” It is concerned with how urban environments work for people and support human needs, how physical designs may facilitate or hinder human behavior, how cities look, and what cities mean. It is concerned foremost with environmental quality, measured in many ways but particularly in terms of access, connectivity, comfort, legibility, and sense of place. CY PLAN
190 (1-4) One hour of lecture/discussion per week per unit. Prerequisites: Upper division standing. Course may be repeated for credit. Sections A-L to be graded on a letter-graded basis. Sections M-Z to be graded on a pass/no pass basis. Analysis of selected topics in urban studies. Topics vary by semester. The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Planning for Diversity or Division Extended description to come. |