GC 585 - Community Planning

Offered Fall: No Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: No Offered Other: Every other year starting 2026

Credits: 4
Hours (Lecture/Discussion/Lab): 4-0-0
Graded: A/F

Co-requisites: None

This course explores historic, economic, political and environmental factors affecting community planning. Students analyze the most pressing issues in community development, including: housing shortage, current demographic, and technological changes in American cities; the possibility for a major urban revitalization; the importance of social equity as a major planning objective; the importance of public participation in the planning process; the role of planners in responding to current major environmental challenges; and planning policies in different countries.