Certificate in Land Preservation (Director: Tom Daniels)
Land preservation through buying land, acquiring conservation easements,
and limited development is a big deal in growth management
and land use planning. There are currently more than 1,700 land trusts
in
the United States, and 300 state and local government
land preservation programs. Many private foundations are funding land preservation
efforts, and increasingly, real estate developers and
their consultants
are incorporating land preservation into their development
projects. The goal of the Land Preservation Certificate Program is to provide
tomorrow’s land preservation leaders with the skills
and knowledge they will need to be effective. This includes
knowledge of land use
planning, finance, legal aspects of land preservation,
conservation biology, and Geographic Information Systems
(GIS).
Students must complete 5 course units consisting of the
following required courses:
1. CPLN 764 Land Preservation and Planning
2. CPLN 765 Conservation Law
3. CPLN 766 Conservation Finance
4. CPLN 666 Modeling Geographic Objects or LARP 741 Modeling
Geographic Space
5. An appropriate course in
Conservation Science, including either ENVS 502 (Environmental
Chemistry) or ENVS 504
(Biogeochemical Cycles)
or ENVS 507 (Wetlands) or ENVS 610 (Regional Field Ecology)
or ENVS 641 (Water in Environmental Planning).
The Certificate in Land Preservation is open to current
Penn graduate students as well as to qualified professionals
and people interested
in land preservation. Practitioners who are not currently
Penn students but are interested in enrolling should
e-mail Prof. Daniels at thomasld@design.upenn.edu
Certificate in Real Estate Design and Development (Director:
Witold Rybczynski)
The Certificate in Real Estate Design and Development
is intended for students who want to develop real
estate projects
by combining design,
development, and financing skills and knowledge.
The certificate is the result of collaboration
between the School of Design
and the Wharton
School, and is open to master’s degree students
already enrolled at the School of Design in Architecture,
Historic
Preservation, Landscape
Architecture, or City and Regional Planning. Students
my complete the certificate by completing the following
five
courses:
1. CPLN 623 Methods of Property Development (Fall)
2. CPLN 680 Real Estate Finance & Investment (Spring)
or
REAL 721 Real Estate Investment, Analysis & Finance (Fall & Spring)
3. ARCH 762 Design & Development (Spring)
4. REAL 804 Real Estate Law, Financing & Development (Fall & Spring)
5. REAL 821/ ARCH 768 Real Estate Development (Fall & Spring)*
* For the school year 2008-2009 only REAL 821 will
be given in both the fall and spring semesters.
For more details, click here to go to the Real
Estate Design and Development Certificate web
page. Additional
information is available through the
PennDesign Real Estate Club. The number of
places in the program is limited, however any PennDesign
student
who completes the required
courses will receive a certificate.
Certificate in Urban Design (Director: Jonathan
Barnett)
Urban designers are active at a wide variety
of scales, from regions down to neighborhoods
and
groups of
buildings. The Certificate in Urban
Design is open to students already enrolled
at the School of Design in Architecture,
City and
Regional
Planning,
Historic Preservation,
or Landscape Architecture. The Certificate
may also be taken as a freestanding course
of study
if a student
has already completed a professional Master’s
degree in architecture, landscape architecture
or city and regional planning.
Students must complete five course units
consisting of the following required courses:
• CPLN 702 Studio (2 course units)
• UDES 751 Theory and Principles of Urban Design
• UDES 752 Case Studies in Urban Design
• CPLN 623 Introduction to Property Development
Students who are not enrolled as MCP students in PennPlanning
may opt to take CPLN 723 Law of Planning and
Urban Development instead of CPLN 623. Student programs must be individually
approved
by the director
of the Certificate Program.
The Urban Design Certificate program
is only open to graduate students
in PennDesign.
MCP students
in the
Urban Design specialization may
not apply to the Urban Design Certificate
program. Other graduate students
should apply for the
Urban Design Certificate
as early as possible
during their graduate studies so
that they may complete the certificate concurrently
with their
degree requirements.
The number of places in
the program is limited.
For more details, click: Urban
Design Certificate web page.
Certificate in Urban Redevelopment
(Director: Eugenie
Birch)
Urban redevelopment has increased
greatly over the past decade, with
households,
major employers,
real
estate
developers and real estate
investors all returning to central
city locations. Market-based urban
redevelopment
has joined
community development
activity in revitalizing
formerly distressed center city neighborhoods.
These activities have not been without
controversy, having
generated gentrification and displacement
in many communities. Mediating the
tensions inherent in this type of
change, and
creating mechanisms
by which multiple stakeholders can
grow with urban communities, is a
specialized niche in the practice
of large scale
real estate development.
Leaders in this field craft
solutions that employ the tools of
city and regional planning, urban
design, architecture,
historic
preservation, business, law, public
policy, public administration, human
services, education, public health
and
others.
Students must complete five course
units including one course unit
in real estate
finance and
four course units
from a list of restricted
electives. Click here
to see the full list of finance
and elective
courses.
The Certificate in Urban Redevelopment
is open to current Penn graduate
students (except
for
PennPlanning graduate
students with a specialization
in Urban Development) as well
as to qualified non-student professionals.
Practitioners
who are not currently
Penn students but are interested
in enrolling should e-mail Prof.
Birch
at elbirch@design.upenn.edu
