GC 485 - Community Planning

Offered Fall: Yes, Even Years Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: No Offered Other: No

4 Credits
Hours (Lecture - Discussion - Lab): 4-0-0
Prerequisites: Junior standing.

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.