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Five issue-oriented concentrations, or specialties, reflect the strengths of the faculty in the urban planning and policy development program. These concentrations include the core of general courses, but go beyond that broad foundation of skills, awareness, and understanding to explore more deeply the scope of specific planning issues. They allow more detailed examinations of the dimensions, questions, conflicts, and impacts addressed by the professional as well as by the researcher. They encourage recognition of common elements that resonate between and among various problems, policies, and programs.
Courses in each concentration are grouped into “required” and “recommended” categories. The program requires that any student who wants to specialize in a particular area take proper courses as outlined under each concentration. Additional courses taken in that area will depend upon the student’s particular interest and can be selected, with the help of advisers, from among the listed recommended and relevant courses or from other courses recommended by area advisers.
These concentrations cover areas of substantial strength within the program and school. There also are other feasible concentrations, such as information technology. Students who want to blend two concentrations to design their own programs can do so and should speak with their faculty adviser and the area advisers.
All required and most recommended courses for these concentrations are offered through the program and other units of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
Additional recommended courses are offered within the university, in the Departments of Landscape Architecture; Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics; Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources; Environmental Sciences; and Geography, among others. Courses also may be found at Princeton University and New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Faculty Advisers
Clinton Andrews (co-coordinator), Tony Nelessen (co-coordinator),
Richard Brail, Michael Greenberg, Lyna Wiggins
Overview
This concentration prepares students to design, plan, and manage the human-environment interface. This concentration has two tracks—design and environment. The design track focuses on the visioning, planning, and urban design of neighborhoods, towns, and cities using the principles of New Urbanism. The environment track focuses on the application of management and policy tools to reduce anthropogenic environmental impacts and to mitigate natural hazards. All students in this concentration will develop fluency with the distinct but interdependent design, regulatory, and managerial approaches. Students must take the two required courses, and at least four courses total in the concentration. They can focus on one of two tracks—environment or design—selecting from the list below depending on interest. At least one graduate planning studio in environmental or physical planning is strongly recommended.
Students in the design track may do a directed study in urban design under faculty direction.
Required Courses
34:970:601 Introduction to Planning and Design
34:970:618 Environmental Planning and Management
Recommended Courses
34:833:565 Politics and Regulation
34:970:508 Comprehensive Planning
34:970:523 Legal Aspects of Environmental Planning
34:970:525 Property Theory and Policy
34:970:555 Urban Transportation Policy Analysis
34:970:556 Urban Transportation Planning
34:970:558 Public Transit Planning and Management
34:970:571 Industrial Ecology
34:970:585 Tourism Planning
34:970:591 Introduction to GIS for Planning and Public Policy
34:970:592 Topics in GIS
34:970:602 Zoning for Communities of Place
34:970:604 Land Development Practice
Faculty Advisers
David Listokin (co-coordinator), Robert Burchell (co-coordinator)
Overview
A broad understanding of housing and development planning, housing economics and markets, land and building analysis, development, and marketing processes, particularly in the United States, is gained through a sequence of courses in development planning and practice; real estate research, finance, and investment; and housing impact analysis. This concentration meets the needs of students with varying interests, including planning for development, real estate market research and analysis, real estate finance and investment analysis, and relating land-use planning and controls to the private development process. Students must take at least two of the four required courses, and at least four courses total in the concentration. Two graduate planning studios covering the following topics are strongly recommended: historic preservation, housing, urban design, neighborhood revitalization, or community development.
Required Courses (select two of the four)
34:970:528 Housing Economics and Markets
34:970:529 Principles of Housing
34:970:604 Land Development Practice
34:970:622 Urban Redevelopment
Recommended Courses
34:833:540 State and Local Public Finance
34:970:508 Comprehensive Planning
34:970:512 History of Planning Thought
34:970:521 Historic Preservation
34:970:523 Legal Aspects of Environmental Planning
34:970:525 Property Theory and Policy
34:970:541 Planning for New Communities
34:970:558 Public Transit Planning and Management
34:970:575 Locational Conflict
34:970:601 Introduction to Planning and Design
34:970:602 Zoning for Communities of Place
34:970:618 Environmental Planning and Management
Princeton ARC 401 Theories of Housing and Urbanism
Princeton WWS 508 Econometrics and Public Policy
Princeton WWS 538 Politics and Policymaking in Metropolitan Areas
Faculty Advisers
Hooshang Amirahmadi (coordinator), Briavel Holcomb,
Michael Lahr, Meredeth Turshen
Overview
The purpose of this concentration is to train students to effectively design and implement plans and public policies in regional and international settings, with particular focus on urbanization and human settlement systems. Specific topics examined include the effect on development of both the presence and absence of political stability, social cohesion, economic equity, the spatial concentration of economic activity, interindustry linkages, technology transfer, and the cross-boundary movement of people, trade, capital, and information. Students must take at least two of the required courses, and at least four courses total in the concentration. A graduate planning studio in regional or international planning is strongly recommended.
Required Courses
34:970:644 International Economic Development
34:970:645 Regional Development
Recommended Courses
16:450:509 Human Geographical Problems of Developing Countries
16:450:525 Restructuring of Central and Eastern Europe after 1989
16:450:605 Geography Seminar
34:832:577 Immigration Policy and Public Health
34:833:540 State and Local Public Finance
34:970:541 Planning for New Communities
34:970:557 International Transport Policy and Planning
34:970:562 Community Economic Development
34:970:575 Locational Conflict
34:970:581 Gender and International Development
34:970:582 Contemporary Issues in Women’s Health
34:970:585 Tourism Planning
34:970:608 Human Rights, Health, and Violence
34:970:609 Social Policy in Developing Nations
34:970:646 Global Restructuring
Faculty Advisers
John Pucher (co-coordinator), Richard Brail (co-coordinator), Daniel
Chatman, Paul Larrousse, Martin Robins
Overview
The transportation policy and planning concentration provides a broad overview of the field as well as the practical application of planning methods. Current highway and mass transit systems are examined in the context of broad policy issues in the environmental, energy, and health areas. Particular focus is placed on public transit planning, nonmotorized modes such as walking and bicycling, international perspectives and issues, and the coordination of land use and transportation planning. Students must take the two required courses, and at least one of the three additional required courses. Four courses in total must be taken in the concentration. A graduate planning studio in transportation planning is strongly recommended. Students interested in the Graduate Certificate in Transportation Studies must complete five courses including at least one transportation course in the School of Engineering.
Required Courses
34:970:555 Urban Transportation Policy Analysis
34:970:556 Urban Transportation Planning
Additional Required Course (select one of the three)
34:970:557 International Transportation Policy and Planning
34:970:558 Public Transit Planning and Management
34:970:665 Transportation and Land Use
Recommended Courses
16:180:531 Traffic Engineering
16:180:532 Transportation Planning
16:180:533 Traffic Operations
16:180:537 Intelligent Transportation Systems
34:833:540 State and Local Public Finance
34:970:508 Comprehensive Planning
34:970:527 Advanced Multivariate Methods
34:970:575 Locational Conflict
34:970:591 Introduction to GIS for Planning and Public Policy
34:970:594 Program Evaluation
34:970:601 Introduction to Planning and Design
34:970:602 Zoning for Communities of Place
34:970:618 Environmental Planning and Management
Faculty Advisers
Kathe Newman (co-coordinator), Robert Lake (co-coordinator), Roland
Anglin, Norman Glickman, Radha Jagannathan, Julia Sass
Rubin.
Overview
This concentration provides broad exposure to the political, economic, and administrative processes of urban and community development. The course work examines social and economic policy formation; implementation and evaluation; the dynamics of social change; the relationship between community development and local, national, and global institutions; participatory and community planning methods; and issues of gender, race, class, and power. This concentration meets the needs of students with a range of interests, including downtown redevelopment, community revitalization, urban poverty, economic development, and housing.
Students must take both of the required courses, and at least four courses total in the concentration. It is strongly recommended that a graduate planning studio in community development be one of the four.
Required Courses
34:970:562 Community Economic Development
34:970:563 Community Development
Recommended Courses
34:833:522 Public Policy Advocacy
34:833:540 State and Local Public Finance
34:833:570 Management of Nonprofit Organizations
34:833:572 Negotiation and Public Policy
34:833:580 Health Care Policy
34:833:585 American Social Policy
34:970:528 Housing Economics and Markets
34:970:529 Principles of Housing
34:970:575 Locational Conflict
34:970:594 Program Evaluation
34:970:602 Zoning for Communities of Place
34:970:604 Land Development Practice
34:970:622 Urban Redevelopment
34:970:633 Population: Tools and Policy
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