Studio class focusing on planning for and the design of areas
in the built environment that are on the scale of neighborhoods
and institutional campuses. Projects involve background
research, case, and field studies of actual locations and often
include stakeholders or interested clients. Class is a teamwork
format.
Athena Title
Urban Plan and Design Studio I
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will have an appreciation for diverse community values, needs, and desires.
Students will have a sense of empathy and concern for the communities with which the studio will work.
Students will have a sense of feasibility and prioritization gained from planning and community perspectives.
Students will have a sense of the potential for collaboration among planning professionals, community members, economic and ecologic agents, policy makers, and facilitators, such as the University.
Students will understand the importance of integrating all scales of planning to benefit neighborhood growth and renewal.
Students will understand the importance of ecological, cultural, architectural, and historic preservation in community planning efforts.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of the relationship between the various stages of planning processes and the communities they affect.
Students will demonstrate a comprehension of planning processes, data collection, analysis, spatial theory, plan-making, short- and long-term implementation strategies.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of community renewal, engagement, and facilitation strategies.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of the interrelations between community values, theories of renewal, economic and ecologic priorities, and policy implications.
Students will demonstrate the ability to collect, organize, evaluate, and synthesize data and information in the context of planning processes.
Students will demonstrate the ability to utilize qualitative and quantitative inventory and analysis methods and tools in plan.
making processes.
Students will demonstrate the ability to apply planning theories and knowledge gained through community engagement through a range of scales and community types.
Students will demonstrate the ability to integrate community feedback with conventional planning methods.
Students will demonstrate the ability to create accessible and marketable plans, graphics, and strategic implementation documents.
Facility with appropriate analytical computer programs which are standard tools in the planning profession, such as GIS and statistical analytical software.
Students will apply multiple data sources and analytical techniques to assess the environmental, social, and economic characteristics.
of a site/region/community.
Students will integrate ecological, cultural, community, historic, economic, other data in the plan making process.
Students will interact with and engage community members, civic leaders, and others in meaningful participatory relationships.
Students will clearly communicate planning concepts to community members and peers through written, oral, and graphic communication tools for public meeting presentation.
Students will write, develop graphics, and assemble planning report, including web-based forms of report presentation for community use and planning purposes.
Topical Outline
Week 1-15
Phase ONE: Gaining Insights through Precedent Research
•Preparation of reports on similar communities.
•Understanding challenges and issues of precedent planning
processes.
•Assessment of planning protocols used in precedents.
•Potential modification of proposed planning processes for
site.
Phase TWO: Understanding, Recognizing, Community Values, and
Priorities
•Meeting, establishing, ties to community.
•Active, deep listening, engaging community.
•Initial visioning charrettes.
•Synthesizing community goals and objectives.
Phase THREE: Inventory and Analysis.
•Qualitative sources: oral histories, surveys, interviews,
photo archives.
•Quantitative sources: GIS data sets, maps, public and private
records.
•Contextual and historic concerns.
•Economic challenges and opportunities.
•Ecologic systems, priorities, and frameworks.
Phase FOUR: Plan Making and Visualizations.
•Revisiting the charrette process, synthesizing community
inputs with collected data.
•Developing accessible strategies (plans, documents,
visualizations, narratives).
•Developing ties to marketing, policy, grant procurements.
•Examining means of propagation.
Phase FIVE: Implementation Strategies.
•Multiple scales of implementation.
•Prioritization matrices.
•Community liaisons, actors, and agents.
•Policy implications and recommendations.
•Future actions.
•Assessment methods.
•Possible design/build process.
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
Social Awareness & Responsibility
The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.
