Programs
Urban and Regional Planning


COURSE INFORMATION
Term: Winter 2023
Class Number: 542
Credits: 3
Required: No
Elective: Yes

/ URP 542

Comparative Environmental Planning

This is an introductory graduate-level course on the fundamental issues, concepts, and analytical methods that shape contemporary environmental planning in practice. The term “environmental planning” encompasses a wide array of planning techniques and institutional settings. Rather than focusing on one particular type of planning, the course addresses recurrent value-based and analytical conflicts that cut across various environmental policymaking and planning activities. We will also survey and apply analytical methods related to: place-based land suitability analysis; project-based environmental impact analysis; and the use of ‘scorecards’ and other related environmental information conveyance techniques.

Note: This course is pre-approved as a MUD Directed Elective in the Ecology, Landscape, and Sustainability category.

Meets

Mon, Wed 8:30-10:00am  2108 A&AB

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