URBP 200
Course Learning Objectives:
The department has approved official course learning objectives for this course. Learning objectives support the overall goal of each course and describe what information students should know, or what skills students should have learned by the end of the course.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Describe the evolution of the social and spatial structure of urban agglomerations, and list and explain the significance of the natural (e.g. climate, topography, available construction materials) and man-made (e.g. political, religious, economic, defense) determinants of urban form.
- Discuss and evaluate the important contributions to the field of planning made by influential individuals such as Hippodamus of Miletus, Pierre L'Enfant, Baron Haussman, Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jacob Riis, Ebenezer Howard, Robert Moses, Jane Jacobs, William Levitt, and Ian McHarg.
- Describe the major historical antecedents during the late 19 th and early 20 th century that led to the development of the field of urban planning in the U.S. These include, but are not limited to: the Sanitary Reform movement, the City Beautiful/Municipal Arts Movement, and Burnham's Chicago Plan.
- Explain the legal framework in the U.S. that supports the objectives and outcomes of urban planning (e.g. key constitutional amendments such as the 5 th and 14 th Amendments, the role of Euclid v. Ambler Realty, the difference between eminent domain and police power) in terms of the historical significance and impact of these events in planning.
- Explain how issues of diversity (including, but not limited to income, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation) have influenced and are influenced by the field of planning.
- Identify the major theories (e.g. Rational Planning, Incremental Planning, Communicative Action, and Advocacy Planning) that frame the field of urban planning and explain how those theories relate to and are evident in current planning practice.
- Describe how historical events of importance to the field of planning have shaped the development of theories in planning (e.g. social concerns and civil rights and their relationship to advocacy planning).
- Describe the three main sections of the AICP Code of Ethics and apply the rules of conduct (Section B) to examples of ethical dilemmas that professional planners are likely to face during their career.
- Prepare high-quality, grammatically correct written documents prepared using standard conventions for professional written English.
- Use library resources to find a range of professional and academic literature on a planning-related topic and evaluate the appropriateness of reference material for a planning-related research project.
- Research and write a review of literature on a planning-related topic. The review should analyze and synthesize existing research in the field of planning and relate the findings to a contemporary research question in planning.
