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An important course for landscape architects, planners and other professionals interested in the cultural landscape, this course will introduce students to the identification, understanding, documentation and policy implications of cultural landscapes. While it will touch on the issues of both designed and vernacular landscapes, the focus for this course will be the vernacular landscape.

The law of land-use control as expressed in major judicial decisions in the U.S. Creation, expansion and powers of municipal corporations; use of legal planning tools such as zoning, abatement of nuisance, eminent domain, etc.

Survey of research issues and methods in landscape architecture and planning. Designed to assist students preparing their research for master's theses and projects. Includes selecting a topic for this research, synthesizing the pertinent literature, developing research questions and selecting a faculty advisor.

This is an introductory, graduate-level course in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in urban and regional planning.

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This course introduces students to the 3-E concept of sustainability: environment, economy, equity, and applies it to the built environment and policies at the municipal and regional level.

The goal of this graduate seminar is to introduce students to scenario planning as a professional technique to address uncertain futures on behalf of our communities. Scenarios can be used to challenge conventional thinking and promote creative plan-making that is supported by rigorous analysis of empirical data.

Land-Use is a process in which various constituencies (planners, elected officials, corporations, advocates, and the public) manage a community?s land and the land?s subsequent development. This course examines trends in land-use (e.g., Growth Management, Smart Growth, New Urbanism, Sustainability, Shrinking Cities, etc) in order to understand that development is a constant occurrence. However, the choice of the applied land-use and the desired outcome are contextually dependent on location and development trends.