Faculty Advisors: Nezar AlSayyad, Peter Bosselmann, Karen Chapple, Jason Corburn, Elizabeth Deakin, Michael Dear, David Dowall, Judith Innes, Ananya Roy, AnnaLee Saxenian (on leave as dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Information), Paul Waddell, Jennifer Wolch (on leave as dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design)

The Metropolitan/Regional Planning field examines institutions, governance, economic development and metropolitan form at metropolitan and regional scales. It provides a theoretical framework that focuses on the connections across substantive fields — such as transportation and economic development or housing and natural resource protection — and thus prepares students to work across sectors, scales, and boundaries. Because new governance processes require planners to work with a variety of methodologies, this field offers different toolkits to understand metropolitan dynamics. Students are required to take one of the two core courses and then can choose two electives. The field thus offers a choice between professional and academic tracks.

Course Requirements (choose one)

CY PLAN 203: Metropolitan Governance and Planning (Fall 2010, 3 units)
CY PLAN 220: The Urban and Regional Economy (Fall, 3 units)

Electives (choose two from the following list)

CY PLAN 209: Collaborative Methods for Planning (Spring, 3 units)
CY PLAN 225: Urban and Regional Analysis (if offered, 3–4 units)
CY PLAN 227: Studies in Regional Growth and Development (Spring, 3 units)
CY PLAN 228: Research Workshop on Metropolitan Regional Planning (if offered, 4 units)
CY PLAN 254: Sustainable Communities (3 units)
CY PLAN 271: Development Theories and Practices (Spring, 3 units)
CY PLAN 275: Comparative Analysis of Urban Policies (Fall, 3 units)
CY PLAN 290: Analysis of Metropolitan Form (if offered, 3 units)

Note: Additional electives will be added as this field is developed further in conjunction with the Global Metropolitan Studies Initiative.