VALUES: 
•The need to understand and represent diverse communities in 
the planning process.
•The value of ecological processes in guiding the planning 
process.
•The importance of cultural, historic and built resources in 
maintaining a unique sense of place, and in giving identity to 
a community.
•The importance of facilitating a democratic community building 
process in the development and evaluation of neighborhood, city 
and regional planning.
•The importance of team building and a collaborative effort 
within members of the studio and the larger community effected 
by the plan making process.
•The value of communicating clearly and understandably to 
diverse community members as a way to insure an inclusive 
planning process.

KNOWLEDGE:
•Understanding the appropriate data collection tools, and how 
they contribute to the overall plan making process.
•Comprehension and the ability to work with all elements that 
contribute to a plan making process (social, ecological, 
economic, and physical, etc.).
•Integrating all the qualitative and quantitative data sets in 
the plan making process.
•Prioritizing and phasing multiple community growth and 
development visions in plan development.
•Legal implications of the comprehensive planning process
•Recognize the connection between planning issues on a variety 
of geographic scales.
•Understand the role of planning in the creation of healthy and 
sustainable sites/regions/communities.
•Understand the importance of stakeholder participation in the 
planning process.
•Understanding the importance of working at, and considering 
all scales of planning, from the regional to the local 
neighborhood, in the decision making process.
•Navigate and interpret relevant existing planning policies and 
programs for a site/region/community.
•Develop new and appropriate environmental, social and economic 
goals for a site/region/community.
•Develop planning concepts based on factual data and community 
input.

SKILLS:
computer
•Facility with appropriate analytical computer programs which 
are standard tools in the planning profession, such as GIS and 
statistical analytical software.
•Facility with appropriate graphics software, such as InDesign 
and Photoshop to facilitate report and presentation graphics.
•Facility with presentation computer programs, including 
SketchUp, PowerPoint, and basic movie making software.

data analysis
•Apply multiple data sources and analytical techniques to 
assess the ecological, social, economic and built 
characteristics of a region/community/site.
•Integrate ecological, cultural, community, historic, 
architectural, economic other data in the plan making process.

community process
•Interact with and engage community members, civic leaders and 
others in meaningful participatory relationships.

communication
•Clearly communicate planning concepts to community members and 
peers through written, oral, and graphic communication tools 
for public meeting presentation.
•Write, develop graphics and assemble planning report, 
including web-based forms of report presentation for community 
use and planning purposes.

PHASE 1: Weeks 1-2
Engage community, civic and business leaders, and others in 
visioning processes based on data collection from PLAN 6520 to 
arrive at community priorities. 

PHASE 2: Weeks 3-9
Develop preliminary plan at regional, city and neighborhood 
scale, focusing on integration of data set, and the variety of 
planning scales. Develop specific planning and development 
recommendations. Include feedback loop within the planning 
process with community members.

PHASE 3: Week 10
Intensive community participation process presenting draft plan 
and engaging in feedback process.

PHASE 4: Weeks 11-13
Prepare planning report and presentation based on findings from 
weeks 1-10.

PHASE 5: Week 14
Public presentation of work

PHASE 6: Week 15
Finalize planning report