Course Description
Incoming graduate students from diverse geographies and academic backgrounds are introduced to the licensed profession and the study of City Planning and Design through a combination of readings, discussions, studio exercises, and field studies of exemplary (best practices) urban developments in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Athena Title
Intro to EPD
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Course Objectives
Students will be provided an intense immersion in the subject of city planning and design from an orientation format that exposes them to readings on urban development and history, the planning and design studio culture of city planning, education and urban observation in the field. Course Objectives: • Initial exposure to and preliminary understanding of urban planning and design issues in the broadest sense. • Initial exposure to and understanding of the methods of education in planning and design, including directed readings and research, planning and design studio, lecture and seminar formats and field observations. • Initial exposure to and understanding of the licensed planning and design profession. Skills: • Field observation of urban development • Basic urban history and terminology • Beginning level of urban spatial critique Values: • Through the introduction of the fundamentals of Planning and Design, the students will develop a broad based understanding of the elements, issues and complexities of the urban planning profession.
Topical Outline
Readings in urban issues, development and history Field visits and observations at large, medium, and small scale exemplary metropolitan area development visits Seminar discussion/presentation of urban issues Studio urban problems solving exercises