001 LEC , 11:15 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. , M,W (09/02/2008 - 12/10/2008) ,
HMH 1-102 , TCWESTBANK
Meets with: PA 5203W section 001, GEOG 5605W section 001

Instructor: Miller,Roger P (Morse Alumni Award) Open Faculty Award Information

Grading basis/credits: 4 credit(s)

Equivalencies: Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: GEOG 5605W

Liberal Educ. Reqs: Meets CLE req of Citizenship/Publ Ethics Theme; meets CLE req of International Perspect Theme; meets CLE req of Writing Intensive

Description: Planning is State intervention in the development process, and the ideologies used to justify, influence, and legitimate that intervention. Planning functions at practical, political, and ideological levels. Studying planning involves understanding what was planned, by whom, and for what purposes. This course will introduce students to the historical, political, and economic contexts within which international urban and regional planning evolved. The course will examine the nature of the social problems that called forth various planning solutions, and the new urban and regional geographies produced by those solutions. Readings and discussions will emphasize the ways in which planning strategies and the development of planning institutions differed in a variety of national settings. We will explore the reasons for the marked dissimilarity between European modes of urban and regional planning and their American counterparts, both historically and in contemporary practice. The course will also focus on the major actors in the development of plan-ning, and the groups with whom they were associated, and it will address issues of how planning encourages or discourages citizen participation in controlling the built urban environment and the kinds of activities that occur within it.