Suggested Course Schedule
Planning

Course Description

This course can be offered at both the upper undergraduate level and the graduate level of planning program to provide comprehensive understanding of planning theory and practice. The course covers a broad range of topics from the background history of city planning to current planning approaches and practices in the areas of land use planning and growth management, transportation, suburban and urban design, local economic development, environmental planning, affordable housing, planning information systems, and citizen participation.

The course may consist of readings, lectures, lab practices, field tours, and class discussion, and each instructors can customize their own versions of syllabi based upon class goals and students' demands.

Theory and Practice in Planning (15 weeks for a Semester)

week 1
Introduction to Planning

Overview of Syllabus
Discussion on planning Issues

• Geddes, Patrick. 1915. Cities in Evolution: An Introduction to Town Planning and to the Study of Cities. London: Williams & Norgate.
• Mackaye, Benton. 1940. "Regional Planning and Ecology." Ecological Monographs 10:349 - 353.

week 2
Overview of Planning and Planning Theory

Understand purpose and process of planning, types of planning, citizen participation

• Steiner, F. and Butler, K. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition, John Wiley & Sons. See, in particular, "Part 1. Plans and Plan making"
• Anderson, Larz T. 1995. Guidelines for preparing Urban Plans. Chicago: Planners Press.
• Hopkins, Lewis. 2001. Urban Development: The Logic of Making Plans. Washington, DC: Island Press.
• Kaiser, Edward J., David R. Godschalk, and F. Stuart Chapin. 1995. Urban Land Use Planning, 4^th ed. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
• Levy, John M. 2002. Contemporary Urban Planning, 6^th ed., Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• McHarg, Ian. 1969. Design with Nature. Garden City, New York: National History Press/Doubleday.
• Lynch, Kevin, and Garry Hack. 1984. Site Planning. 3^rd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Assign the 1^st Individual Work on Analysis of Urban Growth Issues and Management Strategies

week 3
Urbanization and Growth Management

Understand the concepts of places, districts, and regions in urban context; development types and design considerations; concept of growth management; economic and preservation issues in urban growth management.

• Steiner, F. and Butler, K. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition, John Wiley & Sons. See, in particular, "Part 4. Places and Placemaking" and "Part 6. Implementation Techniques."
• Rome, Adam. 2001. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Gottmann, Jean. 1961. Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States: New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press. 
• The Regional Plan Association, 1933. From Plan to Reality: A Report of Four Years Progress on the Regional Development of New York and Its Environment. New York: Regional Plan Association.
• Wheeler, Stephen, 2002. "The New Regionalism: Key Characteristics of an Emerging Movement." Journal of the American Planning Association 68, No. 3 (Summer): 267.
• Congress for the New Urbanism: http://www.cnu.org
• Urban Growth Management in Arizona, http://www.asu.edu/copp/morrison/public/UrbanGwth.pdf
• Austin's Smart Growth Matrix, http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/smartgrowth/matrix.htm
• Canada's Cities - Urban Growth Management http://policyresearch.gc.ca/page.asp?pagenm=v5n1_art_05
• Smart Growth Score Cards for Planning at varying contexts and scales: http://www.smartgrowthgateway.org/howsmart.shtml

week 4
Legal Basis of Planning

Learn legal foundations of planning and types of regulations including federal, state legislation and zoning regulation

• Steiner, F. and Butler, K. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition, John Wiley & Sons. See, in particular, "Legal Foundation" in "Part 6. Implementation Techniques." 
• Blaesser, Brian W., and Alan C. Weinstein (eds). 1989. Land Use and the Constitution: Principles for Planning Practices. Chicago: Planners Press.
• Kelly, Eric D. (gen. ed.). 1998. Rohan, Zoning and Land Use Controls. New York: LexisNexis Matthew Bender.
• Mandelker, Daniel R. 2003 Land Use Law, 5^th ed. Charlottesville, VA: LexisNexis.
• Salkin, Patricia E. (ed.). 1981-2004. Zoning and Planning Law Handbook. Eagan, MN: West Group.

week 5
Presentation on the Analysis of Urban Growth Issues and Management Strategies

(This individual presentation urges students to analyze current problems in land development in modern cities and to examine theoretical and practical issues in establishing management strategies)

week 6
Environmental Planning and Management

Learn the issues of environment in planning and incorporation into sustainable management

• Steiner, F. and Butler, K. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition, John Wiley & Sons. See, in particular, "Part 2. Environmental Planning and Management" 
• Daniels, Tom and Katherine Daniels. 2003. The Environmental Planning Handbook for Sustainable Communities and Regions. Chicago: Planners Press.
• McHarg, Ian. 1969. Reprinted 1995. Design with Nature. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Randolph, John. 2004. Environmental Land Use Planning and Management. Washington, DC: Island Press.
• Yaro, Robert and Tony Hiss. 1996. Region at Risk: The Third Regional Plan for the New York - New Jersey - Connecticut Metropolitan Area. Washington, DC: Island Press.
• Steiner, Frederick, 2000. The Living Landscape: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning. 2^nd ed. New York: McGraw Hill.

week 7
Open Space and Conservation

• Steiner, F. and Butler, K. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition, John Wiley & Sons. See, in particular, "Parks and Open Spaces" and "Farming and Forestry" in the Part 3. Structures, and "Preservation, Conservation, and Reuse" in the Part 6. Implementation Techniques.
• Garvin, Alexander, 2000. Parks, Recreation, and Open Space: A Twenty-First Century Agenda. Planning Advisory Service Report No. 497/498. Chicago: American Planning Association.
• Mertes, James D., and James R. Hall. 1996. Park, Recreation, Open Space and Greenway Guidelines. Washington, D.C.: National Recreation and Park Association.
• Philips, Leonard E. 1996. Parks: Design and Management. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Flink, Charles, and Robert Searns, 1993. Greenways: A Guide to Planning. Design and Development. Washington, DC: Island Press.
• Little, Charles, 1990. Greenways for America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Arendt, Randall, 1999. Growing Greener. Washington, DC: Island Press.
• Daniels, Tom. 1997. Holding our Ground: Protecting America's Farms and Farmland. Washington, DC: Island Press.
• Steiner, Frederick R. 1990. Soil Conservation in the United States: Policy and Planning. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Services. February 2004. Farms and Land in Farms. Washington, DC: USDA.
• Aplet, Gregory H., Nels Johnson, Jeffrey T. Olson, and V. Alaric Sample (eds). 1993. Defining Sustainable Forestry. Washington, DC: Island Press.
• Sharpe, Grant William, John C. Hendee, and Wenonah F. Sharpe, 2003. Introduction to Forests and Renewable Resources, 7^th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Assign Case Study Work for the Presentation on the 10^th Week

week 8
Transportation and Utilities in Planning

• Steiner, F. and Butler, K. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition, John Wiley & Sons. See, in particular, "Part 3. Structures."  
• Edwards, Johns D. Jr., P.E. (ed.). 1999. Transportation Planning Handbook, 2^nd ed. Washington, DC: Institute of Transportation Engineers.
• National Cooperative Highway Research Program No. 446. 2000. A Guidebook for Performance-Based Transportation Planning. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
• Stover, Vergil G., and Frank J. Koepke. 2002. Transportation and Land Development. Washington D.C.: Institute of Transportation Engineers.
• Bernick, Michael, and Robert Cervero, 1997. Transit Villages in the 21^st Century. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Dittmar, Hank, and Gloria Ohland (eds). 2004. The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development. Washington D.C.: Island Press.

week 9
Economic Development

• Steiner, F. and Butler, K. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition, John Wiley & Sons. See, in particular, "Part 5. Analysis Techniques" and "Part 6. Implementation Techniques."  
• Blakely, Edward J. and Ted K. Bradshaw. 2002. Planning Local Economic Development; Theory and Practice. 3^rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Koven, Steven G. and Thomas S. Lyons. 2003. Economic Development. Washington, D.C.: International City/County Management Association.
• McLean, M.L., and K.P. Voytek, 1992. Understanding your Economy: Using Analysis to Guide Local Strategic Planning. Chicago: Planners Press.

week 10
Case Study Presentations

(This individual case study analysis requires students to analyze a real urban planning project. Students present the issues and the process of the planning and make their critiques on any problems they identified.

week 11
GIS and Visual Communication

• Steiner, F. and Butler, K. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition, John Wiley & Sons. See, in particular, "Part 5. Analysis Techniques."  
• Campbell, John. 1998. Map Use and Analysis, 3^rd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
• Clarke, Kenneth C. 2002. Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems, 4^th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Hanna, K.C., and R.B. Culpepper. 1998. GIS in Site Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Kent, R. B., and R.E. Klosterman. 2000. "GIS and Mapping: Pitfalls for Planners." Journal of the American Planning Association, 66(2): 189-198.
• Malczewski, Jacek, 2003. GIS-Based Land Suitability Analysis: A Critical Overview. Progress in Planning 62:1: 3-65.
• Bier, David. July 1997. "Planning with Satellite Remote Sensing." PAS Memo. Chicago: American Planning Association.
• Snyder, Ken, and Julie Herman. November 2003, "Visualization Tools to Improve Community Decision Making." PAS Memo. Chicago: American Planning Association.
• Oberneyer, Nancy J. 1998. "The Evolution of Public Participation GIS." Cartography and Geographic Information Systems. Vol. 25, No.2: 65-66.
• Environmental Simulation Center: www.simcenter.org

Assign Final Group Project

week 12
Analysis Techniques for Planning

• Steiner, F. and Butler, K. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition, John Wiley & Sons. See, in particular, "Part 5. Analysis Techniques."  
• Klosterman, Richard E. 1990. Community Analysis and Planning Techniques: Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Glasson, John, Rilki Therivel, and Andrew Chandwick. 1999. Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment: Principles, Procedures, Process, Practice, and Prospects .London: Taylor and Francis.
• Holzheimer, Terry. Spring 1998 "Fiscal Impact Analysis in Local Comprehensive Planning." Planners' Casebook, No. 26. Chicago: American Planning Association.

week 13
Urban Design and Place-Making

• Steiner, F. and Butler, K. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition, John Wiley & Sons. See, in particular, "Part 4. Places and Placemaking."  
• Arendt, Randall, 1994. Rural by Design: Maintaining Small Town Character. Chicago: Planners Press.
• Calthorpe, Peter. 1993. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
• Van der Ryn, Sim, and Peter Calthorpe. 1986. Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs, and Towns. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
• Jarvis, Frederick D. 1993. Site Planning and Design for Great Neighborhoods. Washington, DC: Home Builder Press, National Association of Home Builders.
• Rubenstein, Harvey M. 1996. A Guide to Site Planning and Landscape Construction. Hoboken, NJ: Johns Wiley & Sons, Inc.

week 14
Citizen Participation

• Steiner, F. and Butler, K. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition, John Wiley & Sons. See, in particular, "Participation" in "Part 6. Plans and Plan Making."  
• Creighton, J.L. 1994. Involving Citizens in Community Decision Making: A Guidebook. Washington, DC: Program for Community Problem Solving.
• Moore, C. Nicholas. (ed.) 1997. Participation Tools for Better Land-Use Planning. 2^nd ed. Sacramento, CA: Center for Livable Communities.
• Sanoff, Henry, 2000. Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Inc.

week 15
Final Group Presentation and Discussion

(Each group is assigned to focus on different aspects (for example, environment, economy, transportation, housing) of a real urban planning project in local context. They present their analyses on problem identifications, methods, and planning process, and propose creative ideas to integrate different functions in planning.