| Spring 2009 Graduate Courses |
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CY PLAN 204B (2,4) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week for 10 weeks (2 units). Three hours of lecture/discussion per week for 15 weeks (4 units). Research methods for planning, including problem definition, observation, key informant interviewing, causal modeling, survey design and overall design of research, as well as memorandum writing and presentation skills. Students work in teams with clients on actual research problems and learn professional skills as well as practical ways of conducting usable research. With permission of the instructor, students who wish to complete only half of the assignments for their individual research may take the course for 2 units. CY PLAN 204C (3) Three hours of lecture/laboratory per week. Introduction to the principles and practical uses of desktop mapping software. This course is intended for graduate students with exposure to using spreadsheets and database programs for urban and natural resource analysis, and who wish to expand their knowledge to include basic GIS concepts and applications. Prior GIS or desktop mapping experience not required. CY PLAN 206 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Duties and role of the physical planning agency in municipal and metropolitan governments; major alternative definitions of city planning; relationship of long-range physical plan to urban development agencies; significance of city planning legislation in reorganization of local government. Extended Course Description Planners need to complement their technical skills with understanding of organizations and institutions and corresponding strategic, political, and organizational skills. Too often planners blame "politics" and "the bureaucracy" for sabotaging their plans. Yet organizations and institutions are not adverse to planning, but rather form the medium of planning today. CP206 is designed for planners and analysts within government, and community organizers, consultants, private developers, non-profit developers and service providers, and others who must work with government. Students learn how to deal with their changing practice settings: individual agencies and networks of administrative and political organizations. Topics include nonprofits, government organization, planners’ roles in governmental and community decision making, the planner's relations with citizens, politicians, administrators, and strategies for dealing with conflict, pressure, and uncertainty, and developing options. These topics will be explored at levels of increasing complexity: (1) How any organization -- government or non-profit -- works, and how to understand its incentive structure and its relations with other agencies in its action environment. Lectures, discussions, direct observation, readings, and simulations will focus on particular places, issues, and agencies. This emphasis on particulars will provide "nuts and bolts" information on the mechanics of nonprofit and government agencies, expose general patterns of institutional behavior, and prepare prospective planners to analyze unique institutional situations, predict issues and develop situation-specific planning strategies. By the end of the course, students should be able to discern specific sets of political and organizational interests and incentives in diverse situations. With such institutional insight, planners can take responsibility for more effective planning. By understanding the options in professional roles, planners can choose how they want to participate in the planning process. Requirements: No prerequisites. CY PLAN 207 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: 113A or equivalent. Using microeconomics as its platform, course explores the process and pattern of land utilization from a variety of perspectives: the neighborhood, the city, and the metropolis. The approach blends real estate, descriptive urban geography, and urban history with economics. Extended Course Description Course Organization Since the instructor is a fulltime consultant for public sector clients, there will be more of an emphasis on practice than on theory. Guest speakers will be invited to discuss current policy issues. In Spring 2008, our guests addressed issues in municipal finance, green business development in the East Bay, housing policies and programs in Oakland, and pollution credits. More information on this course will be posted prior to the beginning of Spring Semester. Since the instructor is not on the campus fulltime, she will use Bspace as a means of communicating with students. Thematically, CP207 is divided into five parts. 1. Economic Fundamentals. This part will introduce the normative concepts of economics that will be useful in understanding the urban economy and public provision of services. Course Requirements 1. Three problem sets Readings Contacting Dr. Wolfe CY PLAN 208 (5) Three hours of seminar and five hours of studio per week. An introductory laboratory experience in urban plan preparation, including the use of graphic communication techniques appropriate to city planning and invoking individual effort and that of collaborative student groups in formulating planning policies and programs for an urban area. Occasional Friday meetings are required. Extended Course Description This studio course explores city building and place-making from a planning perspective within the context of preparing a neighborhood plan for a not-to-large urban area. The first half of the studio will be spent looking at and trying to understand qualities of the existing physical environment, natural and man-made, and the social and economic contexts in which it is situated. Working individually and in teams, students will engage in empirical observations and other forms of data collection, including meetings with local community members and service providers. Following analysis of the gathered data, students will prepare graphics that communicate the findings, identify the opportunities and constraints that derive from them, and speak to implications. Students will prepare oral presentations to go with the graphics, and will present the analysis at venues that invite discussion and suggestions for plan-making. The second half of the studio will be spent preparing a neighborhood plan for the study area. The plan will deal primarily with physical issues including land use and urban form, housing, streets and open spaces, and transportation, but there will be an opportunity to also address economic development and community development issues through their relation to physical elements and structures. Students will work in teams, but will be responsible for individual work within the context of the team’s overall plan. This individual work will consist of either design proposals for specific development sites and public spaces that have been identified as central to the plan, or socio-economic proposals that are associated with specific physical sites. The plan will be prepared in graphic form and students will present it orally at a final review. A major emphasis of the course is on the graphic communication of planning and design analysis and proposals, and on oral presentations. Time will be devoted to learning drawing and sketching techniques appropriate for plan preparation, including an introduction to the use of computer applications for presentation graphics. Study Area for this Term *Note: The Friday section of CY PLAN 208 includes Graphics for Planners Module 1: Freehand Drawing and Graphics for Planners Module 2: Basic Computer Graphics. If you wish to take Graphics for Planners: Module 3 Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics, you can enroll in it using CCN 13595. CY PLAN 209 (3) A methods course in basic techniques of meeting management, negotiation, mediation, consensus building, and collaborative planning for controversial issues. It deals with process design, strategies for change and leadership, and ways of building civil society. This learn by doing course involves role play simulations on topics such as environmental management, community and ethnic conflict, transportation, housing development and environmental justice, along with videos and brief lectures. CY PLAN C217 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: 213, Civil Engineering 290U, or consent of instructor. Policy issues in urban transportation planning; measuring the performance of transportation systems; the transportation policy formulation process; transportation finance, pricing, and subsidy issues; energy and air quality in transportation; specialized transportation for elderly and disabled people; innovations in transportation policy. Also listed as Civil and Environmental Engineering C250N. CY PLAN 219 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Covers comparative planning and policy topics in urban, regional, and rural transportation that are transnational in nature. Builds policy lessons on planning for mobility, accessibility, and sustainability in different political and contextual settings. Case studies are drawn from both developed and developing countries. CY PLAN 223 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Strategy and tools for developing employment attracting investment and improving the standard of living in regional, state, and local economies. Organization of economic development activities, with a focus on current practices. Extended Course Description Over the past thirty years, economic development and the generation of local employment and taxes have become critical issues for cities. At the same time, local communities have developed new ways of participating in and benefiting from urban redevelopment and economic development policies. The ranks of economic development professionals have swelled, and economic development theory, methods, and practices are beginning to come of age. This course provides a broad survey of the field. We begin with an in-depth examination of the regional economic theories underlying local economic development policy and planning and an overview of evaluation methods in economic development. In the second course segment, we turn to traditional economic development strategies, focusing on business attraction and the CBD. Despite mixed reviews of their effectiveness, tools such as redevelopment remain common approaches to economic development; indeed, the near ubiquitous marketing of “place” has reinforced this traditional approach. The third course segment looks at endogenous development strategies, or activities intended to stimulate new sector growth and create comparative advantage. Sessions in this segment examine clusters, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer, among other topics. The final weeks of the course focus on economic development rather than growth: in other words, raising the community’s standard of living through a process of human development. We examine community benefits agreements, job-centered economic development strategies, workforce development, and asset-building for the poor. We conclude with a close look at what may be the next wave in economic development, social entrepreneurship and the “double bottom line.” This course brings economic development practice into the classroom, through guest lecturers and case presentations by students. Participants are expected to contribute to class sessions, read and comment on course materials, and either perform an evaluation of an economic development program or work on a group economic development project/plan (to be presented in class). CY PLAN 228 (4) Four hours of studio and two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Relevant past coursework and consent of instructor. Field problem in major phases of metropolitan or regional planning work. A collaborative student-group effort in formulating policy or plan recommendations within specific governmental framework. Extended Course Description Regulatory and political changes are making the green economy a reality. In particular, AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, mandates reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and thus will force California businesses and communities to transform themselves. This regional and community economic development studio will focus on three aspects of the green economy: its implications for land use, workforce development, and innovation. Students will be involved in one of three projects: (1) helping the East Bay Green Corridor Partnership (Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland, Emeryville, UC-Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley Lab) identify opportunity sites for a green business incubator and map the local assets that can support green economic transformation; (2) helping the UC-Berkeley Labor Center develop workforce development strategies for its community partners, specifically, a way to retool the construction apprenticeship infrastructure to support green building and standards; or (3) conducting a mixed-methods study of green innovation in six California regions (including a business survey, interview fieldwork, and social network analysis). A grant from the Economic Development Administration will support student travel around California. Students from a broad variety of backgrounds (community development, land use, environmental science, regional development, public policy, business, etc.) are encouraged to join the class. Although there are no prerequisites for the class, we prefer students with experience in interviewing, survey research, database management, and/or economic analysis. The class will provide an intensive hands-on introduction to all of these skills. CY PLAN 230 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Theory of housing markets and empirical methods for measuring market conditions and performance: housing consumption, housing supply and production, and market performance. Empirical analysis and applications to policy issues. CY PLAN 231 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. This course covers issues of housing policy and housing form in the urbanizing developing world from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective. Using case studies from Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, it highlights the role of physical planners as community activists involved in practices like squatter development slum upgrading, sites and services, and self-help. CY PLAN 235 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: 207 or equivalent. Using case studies, this course acquaints students with the techniques of project feasibility; analysis of project proposals and overall project compatibility assessment. Case studies will be based on a variety of public and private sector developments, in central city and suburb locations. CY PLAN 248 (5) Three hours of seminar and five hours of studio per week. Prerequisites: 208 or 240. Advanced problems in urban design and land use, and in environmental planning. Occasional Friday meetings are required. Extended Course Description This is an advanced urban design studio. It is a studio that is basically directed to second year students in the urban design concentration within DCRP, to landscape architecture and architecture students at the graduate level who are pursuing urban design studies, to MUD program students. First year urban design students in the MCP program are strongly advised to take CP 208 before taking CP 248. Those students in doubt should see Prof. Macdonald or Prof. Bosselmann. For sure, first year MCP urban designers will have to have permission of Prof. Bosselmann before entering. The Problems This Semester A. The Land vacated by the Central Freeway in San Francisco B. The Second Problem A number of other areas and problems are under consideration and will be decided by the start of the semester. Class Meetings CY PLAN 252 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. An advanced course in implementation of land use and environmental controls. The theory, practice and impacts of zoning, growth management, land banking, development systems, and other techniques of land use control. Objective is to acquaint student with a range of regulatory techniques and the legal, administrative-political equity aspects of their implementation. Extended Course Description CP 252 builds on the foundation provided by CP 205: Planning and Environmental Law to analyze at a practitioner level the tools available to local planners to implement policies and programs for the use, conservation and development of land. CP 205 is not a prerequisite to CP 252 and planning students, as well as students from business, public health, natural resources, etc., have successfully completed CP 252 without first having completed CP 205. CP 252 divides land use controls into four separate systems* -- the official system, the tax system, the public works (infrastructure) system and a fourth system, sometimes called public-private partnerships, which synthesizes aspects of the other three systems. CP 252 provides future planning professionals with practical, hands-on knowledge of the techniques available within each of these four systems and explores how they interact and work together to implement plans. Requirements Assigned Readings and Method of Instruction Guest Lecturers Four Problem Sets (a) Problem Set #1: General Plan and Zoning Consistency and Drafting Zoning Regulations, Comprehensive Examination Grading Policy -------------------- CY PLAN C257 (3) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: C251/City and Regional Planning C231. Credit option: Students will receive no credit for C257 after taking Landscape Architecture 237. A review of the techniques used in environmental planning, and evaluation of alternate means of implementation in varying environmental and political circumstances. The class will examine and critique a number of well-known environmental planning programs and plans. Lectures and discussion will address recurrent planning problems, such as the limitations of available data, legal and political constraints on plans, conflicts among specialists. Also listed as Landscape Architecture C237. Extended Course Description The seminar will both explore the foundations of environmental planning, including historical approaches, existing technical, legal/regulatory, and stakeholder participation tools, and also encourage us to consider the implications of environmental planning theories. The course is designed to illustrate problems in environmental planning through a series of case studies, including development of the federal Clean Water Act’s wastewater and storm water programs, the Headwaters forest disputes, as well as provision and distribution of water in California. These hands-on scenarios will enable us to explore planning challenges such as issues of scale, interdisciplinary communication, unequal participation of parties in environmental planning decisions, and decision-making in the absence of full information. We will explore answer(s) the following questions: · What do we seek to achieve with environmental planning? Assignments: · Complete a term paper and in-class presentation on a case study/environmental planning problem of their choice; Readings: CY PLAN 268 (4) Two hours of lecture and four hours of studio per week. Prerequisites: 208 or 235. Formerly 258. Studio experience in analysis, policy advising, and implementation in an urban setting. Students will engage in group work for real clients (e.g., community-based organizations or local government agencies), culminating in a final report or proposal. Extended Course Description Regulatory and political changes are making the green economy a reality. In particular, AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, mandates reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and thus will force California businesses and communities to transform themselves. This regional and community economic development studio will focus on three aspects of the green economy: its implications for land use, workforce development, and innovation. Students will be involved in one of three projects: (1) helping the East Bay Green Corridor Partnership (Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland, Emeryville, UC-Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley Lab) identify opportunity sites for a green business incubator and map the local assets that can support green economic transformation; (2) helping the UC-Berkeley Labor Center develop workforce development strategies for its community partners, specifically, a way to retool the construction apprenticeship infrastructure to support green building and standards; or (3) conducting a mixed-methods study of green innovation in six California regions (including a business survey, interview fieldwork, and social network analysis). A grant from the Economic Development Administration will support student travel around California. Students from a broad variety of backgrounds (community development, land use, environmental science, regional development, public policy, business, etc.) are encouraged to join the class. Although there are no prerequisites for the class, we prefer students with experience in interviewing, survey research, database management, and/or economic analysis. The class will provide an intensive hands-on introduction to all of these skills. CY PLAN 270 (3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Competing theories of regional and urban distribution of nonextractive industries and populations. Effects of natural resource distribution, of governmental services and infrastructure, and of private investment. Alternative strategies for influencing settlement patterns. Review of experience to date in various nations. Extended Course Description Looking forward, most of the world’s urbanization and urban development will take place in developing countries, and large countries—Brazil, China and India—will account for a huge share of this growth. Given these trends, the world’s future depends in large part on how well urban regions accommodate demographic and economic growth in an environmentally sustainable manner. The purpose of this class is to review and analyze urban and regional development challenges and to explore the range of policy and planning options being used to overcome them. The course is structured around various urban development issues: urbanization, cities and globalization, poverty, environmental sustainability, natural hazards, housing and slum upgrading, urban land management, regional and metropolitan planning, infrastructure, urban economic development, reconstruction and conservation of cities, and the design, financing and implementation of local, national, multilateral and bilateral urban development projects and programs. The course takes a professional orientation. Beyond looking at the challenges that cities and regions face, it is concerned with how professional practice and activities can improve social and physical wellbeing of urban residents in less developed countries. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Requirements: Class participation: 20 percent; A major research paper: 80 percent. Most readings are available in electronic format. A reader will be available and there will be occasional handouts. CY PLAN 271 (3) Three hours of seminar per week. This course covers the theory and praxis of international development. It studies the project of development, from its Cold War launching to its metamorphosis into the current era of economic globalization and liberalization. And it examines the theoretical models and discursive debates that have accompanied each phase, including the recent critiques put forth by feminism and postcolonialism. The course also locates development in the industrialized world, "here" rather than "elsewhere," thereby unsettling the normalized hierarchy of First and Third Worlds. The Politics of Space This course is an advanced doctoral seminar focused on the “politics of space.” In order to join the class and to be successful in it, students must already be familiar with key texts and paradigms in socio-spatial theory. Graduate students interested in taking the course should write to Ananya Roy at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to find out more about the course. Master’s level students will require a course entry code to enroll in the course. The course will be organized around the reading of entire academic books, treating each as a theoretical contribution and genre, as an empirical case-study, and as a methodological model. The books will include both recent publications as well as those that are already well established in various social science fields. Course Requirements: 1. Regular attendance, seminar participation, and weekly response pieces: 40% of the grade. We will start promptly at 2 pm every Monday. Key Texts: The City and the Grassroots; The Condition of Postmodernity; A Critique of Postcolonial Reason; Colonising Egypt; The Will to Improve; Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection; The Dialectics of Seeing; For the City Yet to Come; Insurgent Citizenship; Neoliberalism as Exception; The Return of the Political. CY PLAN 281 (3) Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Suitable for graduate students in professional programs doing research on planning and policy practice issues. Focuses on theory and practice of planning, with emphasis on the role of different types of knowledge in different kinds of practice. Compares positivist, interpretive, and critical theory views of knowledge and links these to policy analysis, interactive planning, group processes, and emerging models of critical planning practice. Extended Course Description This is a reading and discussion seminar dealing with theory that helps to understand and improve the practice of planning and public policy for contemporary times. It will draw on the work of such social theorists as Dewey, Habermas, Giddens and Foucault, as well as on recent work of key planning and public policy theorists including Forester, Ostrom, Healey, and Hajer. The course will address the basic ways of knowing that underpin any type of professional practice, ranging from the “rational” positivist, analytic approach to interpretive, social constructionist thinking and critical, dialectical approaches. It will delve into planning theory’s current dominant paradigm---theories of communicative planning, which deal with listening and interacting, discourse, collaboration and consensus building. The course will address the institutional arrangements which enable this more interactive and collaborative model of practice. It will combine theoretical readings with case examples. The course provides an intellectual foundation (along with CP 282 Planning and Governing) for anyone doing the Ph.D. in City Planning or other public policy field. It meets part of the DCRP planning theory requirement for the Ph.D. and the History/Theory requirement for the MCP. Students will be expected to do substantial reading and reflection, to actively participate in class discussion, as well as to lead that discussion at times. Two 10-page take home exams will be given. CY PLAN 290 (1–3) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture and discussion per week per module. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. 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 CY PLAN 290C CY PLAN 290E Health Impact Assessment (HIA) refers to a diverse set of analytic and communicative practices that aim to inform and improve social decisions in order to improve the environmental, economic, and social conditions required for optimal population health. This course provides an introduction to HIA with a focus on the need for and application of HIA to land use and transportation planning and development currently occurring in California. The course also reviews the development of novel interdisciplinary analytic tools for estimation of health impacts. Course Objectives: Instructors: Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH, Director of Environmental Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ; Jason Corburn, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of City & Regional Planning, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ; Edmund Seto, PhD, Researcher in Environmental Health, U.C. Berkeley, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Website: http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/hia/ CY PLAN 290F 
Spring 2009 Y-PLAN Projects UCB students (“mentors”) will gain proficiency in:
In this course, UCB students will mentor high school students to:
Deborah McKoy, PhD, MPA, is a lecturer in the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Graduate School of Education. She is Executive Director of the Center for Cities & Schools at UC Berkeley. CY PLAN 290G (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. No more than 3 units may be taken in one section. CY PLAN 298 SEC 1 Graphics for Planners Module 1 will provide an introduction to freehand drawing techniques useful for planners and urban designers, focusing on practical applications. Students will learn how to effectively and efficiently use ink pens, colored markers, colored pencils, and trace to create hand-drawings for all phases of planning and design processes, from site analysis through design sketching to the presentation of design proposals. In particular, emphasis will be placed on developing a “drawing hand,” the effective use of symbols for analytical drawings, layering analytical drawings over aerial photographs, color rendering of plans, sections, and site perspectives, and using thumbnail sketches for communicating design ideas and creating effective presentation board layouts. The course will consist of five sessions meeting on the following dates: 23 January CY PLAN 298 SEC 2 Graphics for Planners Module 2 will provide an introduction to basic computer graphics useful for planners and urban designers, focusing on practical applications. Students will learn how to use Auto-Cad and/or Illustrator to create base plans from aerial photographs, how to use Illustrator or In-Design to create page layouts for graphic presentations, how to scan, edit, and enhance hand-drawn work using Photoshop, how to create computer generated plans and images, how to create color palettes for effect graphics, and how to efficiently print design boards. The course will consist of five sessions meeting on the following dates: 30 January CY PLAN 298 SEC 3 Graphics for Planners Module 3 will provide an introduction to 3D modeling and Google Sketch-Up. The class will focus on practical applications of Sketch-Up for planners and urban designers. Students will learn how to create site context models, use site information from Google Earth, develop building prototypes, and create 3D diagrams for design guidelines. The course will consist of five sessions meeting on the following dates: 10 April CY PLAN 298 SEC 4 This class provides students with the opportunity to participate in the collaborative production of the next edition of The Berkeley Planning Journal. Under the direction of the editor, participants carry through the process of writing, editing, designing, and producing an issue of the Journal. In addition, visitors and participants discuss the editing and writing process with visiting scholars, and students have the opportunity to contribute articles and book reviews. CY PLAN 298 SEC 5 CY PLAN 298 SEC 6 |