This course introduces planning concepts and the role of planning in formulating policy, meeting critical problems, and shaping the future urban environment.

In this course students explore how nature conservation is necessary for the continuation of life on earth with particular attention on the myriad ways that the natural environment and systems support human health, livelihoods, and wellbeing.

This course provides an introduction to planning as a collective decision-making tool, and introduces the concepts of efficiency, equity, and environmental quality as competing bases for public decisions. The course examines tools for contributing to public decisions in varying circumstances, including unitary and diverse decision makers, certain and uncertain environments, and simple and complex goals.

This course examines various dimensions of the "sustainable development" paradigm and its local-global policy implications, issues, and controversies with a focus upon North American and Latin America. The course is organized into three modules: 1) environmental philosophies that have influenced the movement; 2) North American approaches to planning for sustainable development; and 3) critical issues of sustainable development in Latin America.

This course introduces river basin management and planning and takes a systematic approach from biological, hydrological, and geopolitical viewpoints. Special emphasis is placed on the planning and management of transboundary (interstate and international) basins. The focus is on world river basin systems as well as on the local Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint basin. Students are introduced to technical concepts and tools, including negotiation and math simulation tools.

This course provides a contextual understanding of food systems in the formation of cities, the impacts of food policy on food systems, and planning responses to the many challenges that arise in relation to the globalized food system.

This course is a general introduction to the problems of resource management and environmental planning, with an overview of problems and potential solutions and their relation to other public policy areas such as land-use control and regional development.

This course provides an overview of the evolving development policies concerned with the spatial location of people and economic activities. The course encourages students to analyze and critique the social and economic implications of various policies, and to develop alternative strategies for attaining development objectives.

This course introduces the student to the field of development planning and gives the student exposure to the interplay between theory and practice. Topics include concepts of development, measurement and indicators of patterns of development, rural development, urban development, preparation of development plans, and implementation of development plans.

This course is an introduction to contemporary U.S. transportation problems, sources of funding, and legislation. Presents the theory and methods employed by planners in the process of resolving transportation problems.

In this course, students consider how increasing pedestrian and bike activity can make our communities healthier, more equitable, and is less damaging to the environment. This course explores the various ways that non-motorized travel (i.e., walking and biking) can be made more desirable and safe. This includes planning, design, and implementation of 1) bike and pedestrian facilities/networks, 2) a built environment that supports non-motorized travel, and 3) promotional and educational programs.

This course studies past, present, and future urban geographies and the impact urban social and economic policy have on social equity. Students learn the significance of race, gender, ethnicity and Identity in urban development and urban life.

This course is a selected topics seminar for the discussion of unique and timely planning related issues. Content varies.

This course develops the skills and perspectives for determining why and how to engage citizens in public decisions, moving along the spectrum of participation from informing to consulting, involving, collaborating and empowering. The course provides practical skill development in community engagement processes, design, and methods.

This course is a general introduction to the field of planning, examining the intellectual heritage and procedural approaches shared by practitioners working in all areas of contemporary planning practice. The course also introduces students to the general area of planning theory and some of the fundamental political and ethical issues they face in planning practice.

This course focuses on how complex regulatory disputes frequently slow public sector decision making and cripple major private sector investments. Parties to disputes such as location of locally unwanted land uses, setting of air and water quality standards, and evaluation of urban and transportation plans frequently fail to cooperate to achieve the best possible outcome. The course examines why this is so and tries to develop the skills necessary for individuals to improve the outcome in contentious decision making.

This course prepares students to effectively build censuses and to resolve conflicts involving building permits, locally unwanted land uses, environmental regulations, community visions, projects, programs, allocation of public funds and services, intergovernmental battles, and controversial agency rules. The course also explores constructive alternatives to unilateral or adversarial methods of decision-making that often drain public and private resources unnecessarily, damage important relationships, and either result in less than ideal solutions or fail to resolve the disputes at all.

This course explores topics such as the legal aspects of plan making, implementation politics, policy implementation, interorganization cooperation, and public participation, under the general rubric of plan adoption and implementation strategies.

This course offers an introduction to descriptive and associative statistics as applied to public-policy problems encountered by planners. Topics include basic definitions and descriptive measures, probability theory, sampling, and inference. Elementary multivariate techniques are covered, including those appropriate to the analysis of nominal and interval scales.

This course focuses on a systems-analysis approach as a means of analyzing problems and formulating action alternatives. Emphasis is given to techniques of modeling, applied economic analysis, probability and risk, goals achievement, as well as cost benefit and cost effectiveness in the assessment of alternative courses of action.

This course deals with the methods used in plan analysis and development. Emphasis is given to demographic analysis and population-projection techniques, to economic-base analysis and economic-projection methods, as well as to methods for preparing a land-use plan. Students are required to use these methods in preparing a demographic, economic, and land-use analysis for a Florida county and subcounty area.

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of how geographic information systems can be applied to planning practice and research. Students are introduced to the basic concepts, structures, and functions of geographic information systems and their applications to planning research and practice as well as to effective communication of planning information through electronic and print media.

This course is an introduction to the problems and needs for growth management and comprehensive planning in U.S. cities, covering public and private perspectives on development and growth management, state and national institutions involved in development, and planning approaches available for meeting the growth management problem.

This course focuses on preparation of the urban land-use plan including data collection; evaluation of location, market, and environmental factors; and balancing of stakeholder interests.

This course involves team study of specialized planning problems. The course also requires students to select problems to which the planning process can be applied and which require the use of methods and techniques learned in the core program and in a student's specialization. The course, along with the thesis (URP 5971r) or research paper (URP 5910) options, serves as the terminal requirement of the program.

This course consists of examination and application of proposals for the New Urbanism, including prospects for increasing transit use and pedestrian access through land development code changes and multi-use district designations.

This course provides an overview of the broad area of international transportation planning. The course features analyses of a number of specific case studies of transportation planning from around the world, including from Europe, Canada, China, India, Russia, Africa and the developing world, and includes analytical exercises that are relevant to growing international transportation planning challenges.

This course introduces river-basin management and planning and takes a systemic approach from biological, hydrological, and geopolitical viewpoints. Special emphasis is placed on the planning and management of transboundary (interstate and international) basins. The course focuses on world river-basin systems as well as on the local Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint basin. Students are introduced to technical concepts and tools, including negotiation and math simulation tools.

This course provides a contextual understanding of food systems in the formation of cities, the impacts of food policy on food systems, and planning responses to the many challenges that arise in relation to the globalized food system.

This course provides a general introduction to the related problems of resource management and environmental planning through an overview of problems, potential solutions, and their relation to methodologies, existing institutions, and other public policy areas such as land-use controls and regional development. Students are expected to become familiar with a series of fundamental concepts from environmental science and engineering, environmental economics, and environmental politics that are important to evaluating alternatives courses of action. Students also gain familiarity with the basic analytic approaches to valuing and comparing environmental projects, plans, and policies.

This course examines the planning and management of coastal environments including coastal geomorphic processes, coastal ecosystems, legal structures, and regulatory strategies. Issues include shoreline protection, critical lands management, provision of public utilities, public access, and sea level rise.

This course examines various dimensions of the "sustainable development" paradigm and its local-global policy implications, issues, and controversies with a focus upon North America and Latin America. Organized in three modules: 1) environmental philosophies that have influenced the movement; 2) North American approaches to planning for sustainable development; and 3) critical issues of sustainable development in Latin America.

This course examines available methods of environmental impact analysis and control. Primary emphasis is placed on water quality, wastewater treatment, and air pollution control, although topics such as noise and solid waste pollution are also considered.

This course introduces students to key themes, concepts and debates that shape the intersections of climate change vulnerability, disaster risk and adaptive community resilience.

The course covers selected information, concepts, and methods from the field of epidemiology, with emphasis on the methods by which risk factors are identified and evaluated as potential causes of health-related events. The course is geared toward providing students with a basic understanding of epidemiology, its role as the foundation for public health, and how it is practiced.

This course explores and applies various theoretical models used to explain the behaviors that influence health. Educating persons about the risks of certain behaviors is a fundamental component in the holistic model of health.

This course analyzes strategies and tools for developing employment and investment in state and local economies. Considers programs targeted to depressed urban neighborhoods, rural communities, downtown commercial areas and specific business sectors.

This course analyzes the problems of developing countries as integral parts of a more general process of the development of human societies on a global scale. The approach to the issues and problems of development is spatial. Such an approach permits consideration of the economic, social, political, and cultural aspects of the development process within an interdisciplinary framework, focusing on urban and regional development as embodiment of concerns with the general quality of human life and the natural environment. The process of development as it goes on in all countries is examined by a focus on the set of conditions leading to problems of development in most societies and on the nature of development paths which have been pursued by other nations as they seek to transform their national spatial structures.

This course provides an overview of the evolving development policies concerned with the spatial location of people and economic activities. This course encourages students to analyze and critique the social and economic implications of various policies, and to develop alternative strategies for attaining development objectives.

This course utilizes the project cycle and uses it as a reference point to discuss the following issues: problem identification and basic needs assessment, feasibility studies, selection of most appropriate activities, implementation and evaluation of results. The course also explores the implications for blueprint vs. process oriented approaches to project design and implementations.

This course is an introduction to various aspects of contemporary U.S. transportation problems, sources of funding, and legislation. The course also presents theory and methods employed by planners in the process of resolving transportation problems through investment decision plans.

This course addresses the land use implications of transportation investments and explores strategies for transportation and land use planning that are environmentally sound, socially efficient, and equitable.

This course provides students with a basic hands-on exposure to the principal tools of transportation demand forecasting, including both elasticity-based analyses and the more elaborate techniques incorporated into the urban transportation modeling system (UTMS, also known as the four-step model).

This course focuses on ways in which planning can enable neighborhood residents to enhance the attractiveness of their neighborhood. The course is for planners who work with neighborhood groups or are employed by neighborhood organizations or community development corporations.

This course is an advanced seminar in selected housing and community development issues and problems. Content varies. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

This course deepens students' understanding of the urban cultural, social and economic landscape. Students explore the historical formation of cultural enclaves stemming from immigration, migration, slavery and segregation. The course also explores the formation of spatial organization stemming from policy and social dynamics related to race, ethnicity, gender and sexual identity as well as the present-day implications of multicultural urban spaces.

This course is an introduction to the various economic, social, demographic, technological, political, and environmental factors affecting the location, development, and growth or decline of cities, as well as the distribution of activities (industry, commerce, population, public facilities) within them.

This course focuses on the study and evaluation of the built environment, with particular reference to those aspects of the development process that result in "better" physical forms. Students should gain an appreciation for the architectural and design elements of land use development, be in a position to evaluate alternative site designs for impacts on use and functioning, and relate the design and uses of land to planning and growth control mechanisms in a critical way.

This course offers students the knowledge and skills necessary to understand and determine the physical planning and design of urban places. Topics cover key issues in contemporary urban design, planning, and architecture, with a focus on the form of the city and current trends in urban design practice. The course also provides students with a critical understanding of the wider social and environmental impacts on the shape, structure, and design of historic and contemporary urban projects and developments.

This course offers the basic graphic-representation skills required for communicating solutions to planning and urban-design problems. Topics cover the basic principles of graphic design; manual graphic communication; digital image editing techniques to represent 2-D aerial and plan views of existing or proposed conditions and elevations; as well as the use of visualization software to compose vector-based illustrations of physical-planning solutions to urban design and policy-based questions.

May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.

May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.

This course is offered at zero credit hours as an administrative mechanism for insuring that students in the master's program complete a series of professionally oriented field trips, visiting lectures, and workshops. These events are offered throughout the semester. Master's students are required to attend these events over two of the semesters in which they are enrolled in the program. Offered for majors only.

This course is a selected topics seminar for the examination of topical issues not fully covered in other courses of the program. Content varies. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.

This course takes a project-based approach and centers around cross-continental joint projects to explore effective ways of industrial development, apply comprehensive methods to track the performance of industrial clusters, and formulate policy recommendations to improve their functionality.

This course discusses the process and design of empirical research used in the analysis of policy and planning problems. Strengths and weaknesses of alternative research designs are considered from an epistemological viewpoint. Strategies for overcoming design limitations imposed by policy contexts are emphasized.

This course concentrates on the urban theory component of urban and regional theory, referring to the patterns and processes of development within cities. An emphasis is placed on the theories of human ecology, economics, and geography, and the translation of these theories into a planning perspective.

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May be repeated to a maximum of three semester hours.

This course is preparation for the doctoral preliminary examination. May be repeated to a maximum of twelve semester hours. May be repeated within the same semester.

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