An introduction to the city as a physical form, how they are designed and developed. The course will provide students with an understanding of the urban design history, practices, theories, and the future of urban environments based on field observation, lectures, readings, and presentations.

The history of urban forms, from early Neolithic settlement to the contemporary global city-region, with emphasis on specific plans, projects, and events to illustrate urban processes within diverse cultural and historical contexts.

The study of urban places. Planning processes and regulatory tools and techniques used by urban communities to achieve community goals and objectives.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data. Students will write or produce a thesis or other professional capstone product, such as a report or portfolio that describes their systematic and in-depth inquiry.

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.

Community and environmental justice is central to professional planning practice. Understanding ethical requirements is essential in achieving this goal. This course provides students a framework for understanding professional ethical codes of conduct, and gives guidance as to how to handle ethical dilemmas, issues of justice, and standards of professional practice.

Analysis of significant national, state, and local legal issues involving the use, development, and preservation of land and natural resources. Major legal challenges past, current, and anticipated. A review of the positive and negative effects of the application of various legal measures on the resources they regulate and protect.

Studio class focusing on graphic representation of urban plans and designs. Developing the student's ability to visually express ideas, plan concepts, and design in the built environment. By hand and to lesser extent computer graphic expression techniques are based throughout course on urban planning elements and concepts that are introduced.

This course introduces students to the evolution of urban pattern development within the historic context. It analyzes the patterns of human settlements, identifies and dissects their various components, and explores the physical, cultural, and political factors affecting the arrangement of structures and spaces.