Course Description
Studio class focusing on planning for and the design of areas in the built environment that are on the scale of neighborhoods to cities. Projects involve background research, case studies, decision-making, and field studies of existing locations and often include stake holders or interested clients.
Athena Title
Urban Plan Design Studio II
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
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.
Topical Outline
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
Syllabus
Public CV