Students will develop an understanding of the “infrastructure” 
systems that provide services, convenience and safety to a 
city’s residents.

•Introduction to the many public and private elements that make 
up a city’s infrastructure.
•Understanding of the requirements of each element when 
planning that element’s system as a building block of a 
comprehensive city plan.
•Understanding of the relationships and interdependencies of 
infrastructural elements to each other and of their effects on 
urban development and form.
•Understanding of how the underlying natural setting of a city 
affects infrastructure planning and, conversely, how an element 
of infrastructure can affect the environment.
•Preliminary understanding of how various elements of 
infrastructure are financed, implemented, and maintained.
•Exposure to infrastructural systems that tend to be in the 
public realm, privately provided, or both.
•A basic understanding (almost a broad-based survey level) of 
the full breadth of a complex series of urban systems with 
greater focus on fundamental elements such as water, sewer, 
transportation and public safety.

Skills:

•fundamental system knowledge and the ability to investigate 
more completely later
•ability to relate the effect of infrastructure on land use 
patterns
•ability to strategically use infrastructure planning to 
stimulate desired urban growth
•ability to relate to and supervise infrastructure design
•critical thinking on Urban Development

Values

•Through the introduction of the fundamentals of Urban 
Infrastructure, students will develop an understanding of and 
an ability to design, supervise and participate in the creation 
of the underlying systems that support urban living.

Work for the class will include readings, class participation, 
class assignments, research papers and presentations.
(Each topic area will include knowledge of the particular 
infrastructural unit, its implementation and finance, its 
relationship to the environment and urban development and other 
relationships and strategies affecting planning.) 

A.  Generally Public Infrastructural Systems

1. Water (supply, treatment, distribution, best practices)

2. Sewer (collection, treatment, re-use cycles, best practices)

3. Transportation
• Roads and highways (autos, trucks, buses)
• Rail (freight and transit)
• Waterways (freight & transit)
• Air (freight & transit)
• Pedestrian, bicycle, alternative transportation
• Transportation mixes and best practices

4.  Health and Public Safety
• Police, Fire
• Local – Federal Safety
• Medical Provision Systems (Public & Private)

5. Education
• Preschool – High School
• Specialized
• Private
• Higher Education Systems
• Libraries & Other

6.  Public Assistance
• Housing
• Services & Finance
• Other

7.  Open Space and Recreation

8.  Other
	
B.  Generally Privately Provided
	1.  Communications and Technology
	2.  Energy
• Electrical
• Oil and gas
• Other
3.  Goods & Services (retail, commercial, financial)
4.  Entertainment, Quality of Life Elements
5.  Other

C.  A look at the collective “whole” of infrastructure

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will not tolerate academic dishonesty of others."

As a University of Georgia student, you have agreed to abide by 
the University’s academic honesty policy, “A Culture of 
Honesty,” and the Student Honor Code. 

Students are responsible for reading and complying with these 
standards before performing any academic work. Academic honesty 
means performing all academic work without plagiarism, 
cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, giving or receiving 
unauthorized assistance from any other person, or using any 
source of information that is not common knowledge without 
properly acknowledging the source. 

The link to detailed information about the University’s 
academic honesty policy can be found at: 
http://www.uga.edu/honesty/ Questions related to course 
assignments and the academic honesty policy should be directed 
to the professor.