Course Description
Studio class focusing on planning for and the design of areas in the Built environment that are on the scale of cities and metropolitan areas and regions. Projects involve background research, case studies, decision-making, and field studies of existing places and often include stakeholders or interested clients.
Athena Title
Urban Plan Design Studio III
Prerequisite
PLAN 6520 and PLAN 6540
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
VALUES: •Understanding the need for thorough and fair process of information gathering and interpretation. •The value of working with a wide spectrum of community groups and civic leaders to gain multiple perspectives on community needs. •The importance of understanding the regional ecological and economic factors and their influence on local decisions. •The importance of facilitating a democratic participatory process in the information and needs assessment phase of a comprehensive planning process. •The importance of ecological factors in the planning process. •The importance of historic and cultural research in the information gathering and analysis phase. •The importance of built form (architecture, landscape) in the planning process. •The importance of understanding community values as they relate to sense of place and future planning goals. •The value of communicating clearly and understandably to diverse community members as a way to insure an inclusive planning process. •The importance of integrating the different scales of planning. KNOWLEDGE: •Understand the historic and contemporary techniques for plan making. •Understand the best approach of plan making within different regional and community situations. •Understand appropriate data collection tools and how they contribute to the overall plan making process. •Ecological knowledge and its application to the planning process. •Historic and cultural resource knowledge and its application to the planning process. •Architecture and landscape architecture elements in regions and communities as they contribute to the planning process. •Community knowledge and how to work within a diverse community setting. •Cultural differences and significance in understanding community needs and interests. •The inter-relationship of qualitative and quantitative research and information gathering processes and in what situations the planner uses the different types of processes. •The inter-relationship of regional, city, and local planning data and how they can be interpreted in a holistic way. •Understand and critique current planning policies and programs for the specific region, site, and community. SKILLS: computer: •Facility with appropriate computer programs which are standard tools in the planning profession, such as GIS and statistical analytical software. data collection: •Acquisition of ecological, cultural, community, historic, economic, architecture, landscape and other data. •Qualitative techniques for identifying community and cultural information. •Archival research skills to access historic data. •Cultural research skills to understanding unique meaning of place in local communities. community process: •Skills in community and focus group participatory techniques to elicit community data. communication: •Communication skills in facilitating community meetings •Written and graphic skills in assembling report on research findings.
Topical Outline
Week 1 Historic and contemporary precedent in the plan making process. Week 2 Site visit to area of study. Record information (photograph, film, writing) Assemble visual study. Plan community meetings for week 7. Week 3 Develop criteria and priority for information gathering. Form teams to gather information. Week 4-6 Archival and regional and community research (historic, past planning reports, maps, newspaper research, web-site). Week 7 Community meetings, surveys, qualitative data collection. Week 8 Data mapping (hand), chart, and graph development. Week 9 Community meeting to present data and get feedback, accomplish additional required research. Week 10-13 Incorporate GIS in planning process. Input information acquired. Week 14-15 Complete writing, graphics, and assemble final planning report, present to key community members for review.
Syllabus
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