PLAN 2265 - Sustainable Community Planning Methods
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Learn tools that community and regional planners use to assess and change the physical and social environment.
2. Complete readings, do field work, interact with guests, and engage in discussions about Physical Planning and Design, Environmental Planning and Sustainability and People, Place and Community Development.
3. Undertake take home and in-class exercises designed to provide hands-on experiences with the ways community planning methods work in the real world.
4. Complete final project that integrates knowledge of physical space, planning practices and community development strategies in a community setting.
Course Description This course is designed to get you engaged in what community planners do. Community Planning Methods is about the tools that community and regional planners us to improve community design and development, promote a sustainable future and institute resilient places. The course is divided into three modules: Physical Planning and Design; Environmental Planning and Sustainability; and People, Place and Community Development. Each module raises key planning problems and introduces several techniques designed to help you understand how professional planners work to shape the environment. We’ll have readings, discussions, fieldwork and guests to help us understand our communities and the systems that make them better.