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CY PLAN 98
SPECIAL GROUP STUDY
LIANG/CHRISTENSEN

Affordable Housing Issues

(1) Group studies developed to meet specific needs of students.

CY PLAN 110
INTRODUCTION TO CITY PLANNING
COLLIGNON

(4) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week, plus additional fieldwork. Prerequisites: 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

This course provides a survey of the field of city planning. It is required of City Planning minors and Urban Studies majors, but each semester, most of the students come from across the campus. The course provides survey lectures across a wide array of topics- the history of cities and city planning, city planning institutions and politics shaping the development of cities, land use regulation, urban design, metropolitan planning, housing, transportation, environmental planning, economic development, various issues of social policy and urban services, and community participation. Students also are required to attend a section meeting each week which fosters discussion in a smaller group setting, engages students in simulations and field trips, and guides students through the “planning paper.”

Although there is a midterm and final exam covering the readings and lectures, the principal requirement of students- because it is seen as the principal source of learning- is a “planning paper” on a specific problem of the student’s choice in some local government setting. Students submit a series of memoranda over the semester as they complete the paper, with each memoranda being a part of the final paper. Students receive extensive feedback on their research and writing for the paper throughout the course. The final paper students submit is reported later by students to be one that they often show future employers in job interviews to submit with their applications to professional schools (whether planning, law, business, architecture, the social sciences, or whatever) if writing samples are required.

The course meets in the Fall semester on Monday and Wednesday, 2-3 pm in the Wurster Auditorium. The section meets on Friday 2-3, and is not alterable in time. Attendance is taken. Students not attending who do not provide satisfactory advance notice will be dropped from the course so that students from the Wait List can enter the course. The instructor has a 10-minute pre-class “chat” on Mondays and Wednesdays of question-and-answer for which attendance is not required.

CY PLAN 111
INTRODUCTION TO HOUSING: AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY
ALSAYYAD

(3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: 110 or Economics 1 or consent of instructor; open to majors in all fields. Housing problems, government housing policy, and housing as a field of urban planning practice. Emphasis on critical International Issues in the Third World and the United States. 

CY PLAN 112A
THE IDEA OF PLANNING
COHEN

(3) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: 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. 

CY PLAN 113A
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS FOR PLANNING
STAFF

(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.

CY PLAN C114
INTRODUCTION TO URBAN & REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
STAFF

(3) Three hours of lecture/discussion 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. Also listed as Civil and Environmental Engineering C154. 

CY PLAN 116
URBAN PLANNING PROCESS--THE UNDERGRADUATE PLANNING STUDIO
STAFF

(4) Four hours of lecture/discussion per week plus fieldwork. Prerequisites: Upper division standing; 110 or consent of instructor. An intermediate course in the planning process with practicum in using planning techniques. Classes typically work on developing an area or other community plan. Some lectures, extensive field and group work, oral and written presentations of findings. 

CY PLAN 118AC
THE URBAN COMMUNITY
BLAUSTEIN

(4) Three hours of lecture/seminar and one hour 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. Instructors emphasize different topics. Class size limits depend on the instructor. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement. 

Extended Course Description

WHAT THE COURSE IS ABOUT
This course is about people as well as ethnic, cultural, and racial groups in multicultural and diverse communities, neighborhoods and suburbs. It is about what they value and want, how they interact, and how they mobilize to play a role in the politics, economy, and planning of their communities. It is about how their environments in turn shape their opportunities and perceptions, and provide or deny them resources.

Topics will include: exploration of the idea of community as an ideal and value and an examination of how actual urban communities work; economic and social justice; neighborhood development; the role of symbols and myths in giving meaning to environments; the ways that economic policy is linked to political power; racism, ethnic identity and neighborhood formation; racial and ethnic conflict in urban communities.

AMERICAN CULTURES REQUIREMENT
The course is primarily about ethnicity and race in metropolitan areas. It looks at the community development strategies of ethnic and racial groups, and at ethnic and racial identity and conflict, and relationship to community and neighborhood. The issues of ethnicity and diversity are intrinsic to this course. This course will meet the American Cultures requirement.

COURSE FORMAT
Lectures, seminar discussions, guest speakers, and student presentations. The course is open to all students in any major.

WHO IT IS FOR
This course is a broad introduction to the literature (both nonfiction and fiction) and recent research on the urban community. It incorporates materials on ethnicity and on community and race relations in urban neighborhoods. It is particularly appropriate for undergraduates in architecture, landscape architecture, in PEIS or in a variety of other fields such as social welfare, public policy, education, public health, sociology, economics, or political science.

FORMAT
The course will be conducted as a combination seminar/lecture once a week.

PREREQUISITES: NONE

COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Class attendance, reading and participation in discussion.
Grades will be based on: class discussion (20%), a class presentation (20%), midterm exam (15%), attendance (10%), and final take-home exam (35%).

OFFICE HOURS – WED. 4-5:30

CY PLAN 120
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND PUBLIC POLICY FOR DISABILITY
COLLIGNON

(3) Three hours of lecture per week. This course reviews what society and local communities can do in terms of policies, programs, and local planning to address the needs of citizens with disabilities. Attention will be given to the economics of disability, to the politics of producing change, and to transportation, housing, public facilities, independent living, employment, and income policies. Options will be assessed from the varying perspectives of those with disabilities and the broader society.

CY PLAN 190
ADVANCED TOPICS IN URBAN STUDIES

(1–4) Course may be repeated for credit. One hour of lecture/discussion per week per unit. To be graded on a letter-graded basis. Prerequisites: Upper division standing. Analysis of selected topics in urban studies.

CY PLAN 190 SEC A
ADVANCED TOPICS IN URBAN STUDIES
LIFCHEZ

The Social Art of Architecture; Reading and Composition (3 units)

Overview
What is the social art of architecture in America? What was it historically, where is it now, where is it going - and why should you care? In "The Social Art of Architecture," we will explore contemporary and historic attempts to confront social needs through themes: Design by Professionals (Architects, City Planners, Urban Designers, Sociologists, Philosophers, Philanthropists), and Design by Laypeople (Squatters, Intentional Communities, Do It Yourselfers. The objective is to discharge the false dualism that has emerged in architecture between social concerns and creative design.

Four field trips (East Bay and San Francisco) to visit outstanding examples of building designs to meet social needs.

The agenda for the two weekly meetings will vary between illustrated talks and seminar exchanges. A modest number of critical readings to which students will respond by addressing questions posed to guide reading and discussion.

Topics
Advocacy and the Social Art of Architecture
Utopian Projects Conceptual and Intentional Communities
Social Settlements Cooperative Living Non Profit Cooperatives Self Help
Company Towns
Great Depression and the WPA
The Concept of Public Housing
Modernism and the Social Sciences; The New Humanism
Urban Renewal; Reinventing City and Suburbs
Civil Rights and Desegregation
Needs of Special Users; Americans with Disability Act
New Sociality; New Urbanism
CoHousing and Shelters
Teaching a Social Perspective of Design

Class size: ideally 12-15 Upper Division Students.

Professor R Lifchez
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Office Hours: Wednesdays, 3-5 p.m., 474 Wurster

CY PLAN 190 SEC B
ADVANCED TOPICS IN URBAN STUDIES
MCKOY

Neighborhood Planning with Youth: The Y Plan

CY PLAN 198
SPECIAL GROUP STUDY
STAFF

(1-3) Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment is restricted. One to three hours of directed group study per week. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. Group studies developed to meet specific needs of students.