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PLAC 5240 - Collaborative Planning
Examines the processes by which consensus can be developed, focusing general negotiation theory and skill development, including the concept of principled negotiation; the conflict landscape, including government and non-government organizations; and negotiation resources and opportunities, including organizations, processes, and enabling legislation.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5430 - Land Development Workshop
Explores the land development process from the perspective of the private land developer interacting with local governments. Includes development potential, site, and traffic analysis; land planning; development programming; and services to accommodate new development and public regulation of land development.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5470 - Development Dynamics
Examines the roles of developers, investors, designers, planners, and others, identifying the objectives each have in the development decision process. Discusses the interplay and communications of what constitutes sound economics and good design.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5500 - Topical Offerings in Planning
Topical Offerings in Planning
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5610 - Community Planning Workshop
Land use plans are developed, usually in conjunction with citizens, for a community undergoing change. Cross-listed with PLAN 4010.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5720 - Transportation and Land Use
Reviews basic relationships between land use and transportation. Considers the decision process, planning principles, impact measures, and the methodological framework for identifying and evaluating practices in action on a regional, local, and neighborhood scale.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5740 - Transportation Planning and Policy
This course introduces graduate and advanced undergraduate students to current issues in the field of transportation planning and policy. It addresses all modes of transportation (auto, walk, bike) and considers multiple scales (national, state, regional and local). Through the analysis of key topics such as congestion, air quality, social equity, and security, we will gain an understanding of how decisions about the transportation system are made and the role of transportation planners and advocates in these decisions.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5800 - Green Lands
This course assesses the existing ‘green infrastructure’ of counties in Virginia and develops strategies for protecting environmental assets and channeling future development to the most appropriate locations. Students will use the existing county comprehensive plan to create effective strategies for implementation of goals related to conserving open space and creating livable communities.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5820 - Sustainable Planning and Design Workshop
Students act as a consultant team to develop sustainable planning and design strategies for sites which rotate each year.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5850 - Community Food Systems
Students will gain experience in policies that support a sustainable food system. They will undertake community projects that span production, distribution, processing, and consumption of food, and also gain practical knowledge in effective community engagement.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5860 - Green Cities/Green Sites
This course teaches students how to redesign city properties to reduce runoff pollution and follow environmentally sensitive design principles. By assessing the city’s existing ‘greenfrastructure’ and retrofitting city lands and buildings, students learn how the city can demonstrate environmentally sensitive design, protect public health and provide more opportunities for environmental education and healthful recreation. The course works with a different local partner each semester.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5870 - Environmental Impact Statements
This course is intended to provide students with a broad background of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and the subsequent laws and administrative processes from which developed the environmental impact assessment, particularly the environmental impact statement. The course introduces a framework for conducting environmental impact assessments, technological methods for predicting changes in environmental characteristics, considerations involved in interpreting significance of predicted impacts, techniques for accomplishing public participation, and practical considerations for writing environmental impact statements as applied to a local project. Students will also discuss the future of Environmental Impact Assessments, Community Impact Assessments, Health Impact Assessments and other similar tools.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 5993 - Applied Independent Study
Applied independent study.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PLAC 8060 - Urbanism Design Studio
This design studio pulls together many issues that graduate students have studied individually in design technology, theory and history courses into a complex and integrated section of a living and working community.
This research looks at integrating infrastructure systems as a community connection system, energy producing ecology and as a civic public space symbol.
Pre-Requisites: ARCH/LAR 7010
Credits: 6
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PLAN 5020 - Planning Design
Explores methods of urban design analysis, stressing observational and representational methods. Emphasizes relationships among public and private buildings, spaces, and transportation corridors in commercial centers. Cross-listed with PLAN 202.
Credits: 4
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PLAN 5110 - Digital Visualization for Planners
Digital technology for representing and analyzing planning data will include photo-editing, web page design, geographic information system mapping, spreadsheet modeling, and document layout and production. The major emphasis will be on two- and three- dimensional representation of spaces common to planning: streetscape, neighborhoods, communities and regions. Representation of the past, the present and prospective futures to both professional and citizen audiences will receive critical attention. Cross-listed with Plan 211.
Credits: 4
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PLAN 5120 - Geographic Information Systems
Reviews the use of computers in planning, emphasizing geographic information systems for collection, analysis, and display of spatial information in urban and environmental contexts.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5250 - Mediation Theory and Skills
Examines both the theory and practice of public involvement in planning. Explores the planner’s responsibility to the public and techniques for effective engagement.
Credits: 1
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PLAN 5300 - Preservation Planning
Studies current literature on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of historic places. Develops techniques for surveying, documenting, evaluating, and planning for preservation. Analyzes current political, economic, and legal issues in preservation planning.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5310 - Adv. History Cities & Planning
An overview of the planning profession with emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century American urban history.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5400 - Housing and Community Development
Provides an introduction to the housing and community development area of planning practice. Topics include the housing and development industries, neighborhood change processes, social aspects of housing and development, and housing and development programs and policy issues.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5410 - Economic Built Environment
Economics studies the efficient allocation of scarce resources. Efficiency is achieved when an economy cannot make anyone economically better off without making someone else worse off. In most mixed economies, like the U.S., there is a dominant market system of organizing economic activity that coordinates the basic questions of allocation: what, how and for whom to produce.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5420 - Economic Development
Explores the economy of a community, neighborhood, or region as an essential element, in livability and sustainability. Planners engage economic development by working with the community to assess needs and opportunities, through public-private business partnerships, and in development review.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5440 - Neighborhood Planning
As the “building blocks” of cities, neighborhood plans involve citizens in addressing issues of housing, jobs, public services, education, recreation, and transportation.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5450 - Healthy Communities
Explores connections between the built environment and community health, with an emphasis on re-integrating planning with its original roots in public health.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5500 - Special Topics in Policy Planning
Varies annually to meet the needs of graduate students.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5580 - Short Courses in Planning
A series of one-credit short courses, whose topics vary from semester to semester.
Credits: 1
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PLAN 5600 - Land Use and Growth Management
Introduces the theory and practice of land use planning and growth management as they have evolved historically and as expressed in contemporary practice. Addresses the need and rationale for land use planning as well as its tools.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5630 - Design of Cities
Cities are physical artifacts that are experienced psychologically and socially. This course investigates the theories surrounding these processes to reach an understanding of humanistic urban design intentions. Experiential realities are explored through case studies, readings, and mapping exercises.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5650 - Brownfields Redevelopment
This course analyzes the challenges and opportunities posed by the development of environmentally impaired properties. It explores the legal, political, and philosophical underpinnings of environmental regulation. The course includes fundamentals of real estate finance, including risk dynamics and debt capital, and assesses community involvement in redevelopment solutions.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5670 - Place Making
Seminar that explores the interconnections between infrastructure¿ecological systems, transportation, and water supply¿and the form and vitality domestic urban landscape. Readings, discussions and research papers examine contemporary case studies, from the Charlottesville Urban Habitats Design Competition to ideas for rebuilding New Orleans.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5770 - Plan Implementation
Emphasizes the use of zoning, subdivision, and other regulations to implement comprehensive plans. Attention is given to capital facilities programming and building codes.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5810 - Sustainable Communities
Examines sustainable communities and the environmental, social, economic, political, and design standards that underlie them. Focuses on reviewing case studies of cities, towns, and development projects that reflect principles of sustainability.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5830 - Environmental Policy and Planning
Examines contemporary environmental policy and practice, including exploration of the normative-philosophical debate surrounding environmental issues. Emphasizes understanding the political and institutional framework for establishing policy and programs; exploring the action approaches to environmental planning including moral suasion, regulation, public investment, and public incentives; and case studies of environmental planning at the federal, state, and local levels.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5840 - Environmental Ethics and Sustainability
Detailed exploration of the normative debate surrounding environmental issues. Focus on the foundations of environmental economics, questions about the value of endangered species, concerns of future generations, appropriateness of a sustainable society, notions of stewardship, and obligations toward equity.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5870 - Environment and Economy
Rather than being opposite, environment and economy are both dimensions that must be addressed to achieve sustainable outcomes. This course explores these issues and students develop proposed solutions.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5880 - Coastal Planning Issues
Explores the special characteristics of coastal and island settings for their planning significance. Addresses natural hazard mitigation, wetlands, and biodiversity.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5890 - Global Environmental International Development
This course will explore development related root causes of environmental degradation in an international context. The course examines theoretical frameworks explaining the linkage between underdevelopment and environmental issues in a developing country context. Specifically, the course will explore the importance of overconsumption, technology, poverty, and inequality as complex set of factors contributing to the environmental crisis.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5993 - Applied Independent Study
Individual study directed by a faculty member. Prerequisite: Planning faculty approval of topic.
Credits: 1 to 4
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PLAN 6010 - Planning Process and Practice
A practicum/problem course focusing on the use of maps and quantitative information in the planning process. Develops familiarity with types and sources of data and assesses the relevance of data for various types of problem situations. Provides experience in producing quality professional analysis. Also develops team skills and graphic presentation abilities. A core course.
Credits: 4
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PLAN 6040 - Legal Aspects of Planning
Addresses the law as it relates to planning practice. Includes substantial work in traditional areas of land-use law, but also deals with the law as an instrument for change. Emphasizes developing legal research skills and performing legal analysis. A core course.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 6050 - Methods of Planning Analysis
Applies quantitative skills to the planning process: analyzes decision situations and develops precise languages for structuring or communicating their quantitative dimensions. Includes lectures, case studies, and reviews of statistical methods, survey research methods, census data analysis, program and plan evaluation, and computer modeling. A core course.
Credits: 4
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PLAN 6070 - Urban Theory and Public Policy
Concentrates on normative and empirical urban theory central to understanding the design and effects of public policies. The theories and applications considered span a number of academic disciplines. Stresses application of theoretical perspectives to federal, state, and local policy choices. A core course.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 6090 - Planning Theory and Practice
Provides a history of the intellectual and professional roots of contemporary planning theory and practice. Analyzes these roots with an eye to stimulating new perspectives and concepts for a sustainable community orientation. A core course.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 8999 - Master’s Thesis
A thesis is optional for the Master of Urban and Environmental Planning degree. Students should begin early to explore topics and to identify potential committee members. A guideline document is available.
Credits: 3 to 6
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URDU 5010 - Advanced Urdu I
This course is designed to expand and to consolidate the structures the student has learned through URDU 2020 by reading original Urdu texts, ranging from literary prose fiction to news media excerpts to poetry (both classical and modern). We will discuss these texts in Urdu in class, and the students will be responsible for a series of short essays throughout the semester in Urdu pertaining both to the texts and to other topics. Prerequisites: URDU 2020 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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URDU 5020 - Advanced Urdu II
This course is designed to expand and to consolidate the structures the student has learned through URDU 2020 by reading original Urdu texts, ranging from literary prose fiction to news media excerpts to poetry (both classical and modern). We will discuss these texts in Urdu in class, and the students will be responsible for a series of short essays throughout the semester in Urdu pertaining both to the texts and to other topics. Prerequisites: URDU 2020 or instructor permission
Credits: 3
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INST 5575 - Advertising for Action
Course draws from a diverse set of disciplines (e.g., Economics, Sociology, Psychology) that inform the practice of persuasion, and engages students in fieldwork leading to the development of campaigns to increase voluntary engagement at the University of Virginia. Cross-disciplinary teams of students will work collaboratively with clients to develop the eventual winning campaign.
Credits: 2
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