Courses - Spring 2023
URSP
Urban Studies and Planning
URSP372
Diversity and the City
Exploration of the different needs of diverse economic, racial/ethnic, and gender groups that live and work in cities, the historical background of differences, the impact of societal structures and group cultures, and how public and private policies do and can affect different groups.
URSP399I
Independent Study
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
URSP600
Research Design and Application
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg
Formerly: URSP602.
Techniques in urban research, policy analysis, and planning. Survey of descriptive and normative models. Objective and subjective measurements. Emphasis on assumptions of research.
URSP604
The Planning Process
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Credit only granted for: URSP604, URBS656, or URBS604.
Formerly: URBS604.
Legal framework for U.S. planning; approaches to the planning process; tools and technology; systems thinking; defining problems and issues; soliciting goals and values; developing and making good presentations; public participation; developing and evaluating alternatives and scenarios; plan evaluation; developing RFPs.
URSP631
Transportation and Land Use
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
The interrelationship between transportation and land use. What are the impacts of various transportation modes on land use patterns, and how can land use solutions influence travel demand. The integration of transportation into master planning and site impact analysis. Using quantitative methods to understand the land use and transportation linkage.
URSP640
Growth Management and Environmental Planning
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Topics associated with growth management, defined as policies and strategies by which governments attempted to control the amount, location, pace, pattern and quality of development within their jurisdictions.
URSP661
City and Regional Economic Development Planning
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Credit only granted for: URSP661, URBS440, or URBS661.
Formerly: URBS661.
Spatial patterns of employment and populations, and models of urban and regional growth and decline. Focus on application of economic theory and urban planning techniques to issues of local economic development and planning.
URSP673
Community Development
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Examines and identifies planning approaches and methods that can help communities - particularly low income communities - become stronger, more cohesive, and more capable of serving their interests. Examines urban poverty; urban politics; history, concepts and practice of community development; and community development approaches and methods.
URSP688J
Recent Developments in Urban Studies; Economics for a Just and Sustainable World
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Students will interrogate alternatives to market-centric perspectives to gain an appreciation of, and contribute to, the rich history of economic thinking to support equitable and sustainable cities. They will analyze ongoing projects in the DMV and make proposals for their improvement. This course incorporates real-world precedents from across the globe, which demonstrate the potential for progressive economics in practice.
URSP688M
Recent Developments in Urban Studies; Intermediate Geographic Information Systems
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
URSP688O
Recent Developments in Urban Studies; US Housing Policy & Planning
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
URSP709
Field Instruction
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequistes: URSP600, URSP604, URSP605 or permission of the department.
URSP788
Independent Study in Urban Studies and Planning
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
URSP798
Readings in Urban Studies and Planning
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
URSP799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
URSP898
Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
Reg
URSP899
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits:
6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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