This specialization introduces students to the multifaceted challenges of managing metropolitan growth and development. It includes two separate but interrelated emphases: transportation planning, and land use and environmental planning. The transportation emphasis focuses on the role of transportation systems in shaping urban and metropolitan development patterns and the role of planning in shaping transportation systems. The land use and environmental planning emphasis explores how federal, state and local planning programs address the management of burgeoning metropolitan growth, the conservation of ecologically significant land, and the provision of clean air and water.

TRANSPORTATION EMPHASIS (prior to Fall 2007)

Requirements:
Methods:
CPLN 685 Transportation Planning Methods

Foundation:
CPLN 655 Land Use and Transportation Planning
and (select one)
CPLN 676 Introduction to Environmental Planning
CPLN 725 Innovations in Growth Management

Suggested Electives
(Select two):
CPLN 585 Land Use Planning Principles and Practice
CPLN 648 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
CPLN 661 Site Planning
CPLN 662 Metropolitan Regional Planning
CPLN 664 Airport Planning
CPLN 666 Modeling Geographic Objects
CPLN 680 Real Estate Finance and Investment
CPLN 752 Advanced Transportation Analysis
BPUB 664 Principles of Transportation
REAL 804 Law of Real Estate Finance and Development
SYST 656 Transportation Systems Planning
SYST 544 Urban Transportation Systems and Technology

TRANSPORTATION EMPHASIS (Fall 2007 and beyond)

Requirements:
Methods:
CPLN 685 Transportation Planning Methods

Foundation:
CPLN 655 Land Use and Transportation Planning
and (select one)
CPLN 585 Land Use Planning Principles and Practice
CPLN 676 Introduction to Environmental Planning

Suggested Electives
(Select two):
CPLN 648 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
CPLN 661 Site Planning
CPLN 662 Metropolitan Regional Planning
CPLN 664 Airport Planning
CPLN 666 Modeling Geographic Objects
CPLN 680 Real Estate Finance and Investment
CPLN 725 Innovations in Growth Management
CPLN 752 Advanced Transportation Analysis
BPUB 664 Principles of Transportation
REAL 804 Law of Real Estate Finance and Development
SYST 656 Transportation Systems Planning
SYST 544 Urban Transportation Systems and Technology



ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT EMPHASIS(prior to Fall 2007)


Requirements:
Methods:
CPLN 666 Modeling Geographic Objects

Foundations:
CPLN 676 Introduction to Environmental Planning
and
CPLN 725 Innovations in Growth Management

Suggested Electives
(Select two):
CPLN 58 Land Use Planning Principles and Practice
CPLN 648 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
CPLN 651 Urban Infrastructure Systems
CPLN 661 Site Planning
CPLN 662 Metropolitan Regional Planning
CPLN 664 Airport Planning
CPLN 680 Real Estate Finance and Investment
CPLN 714 Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis
CPLN 752 Advanced Transportation Analysis
BPUB 664 Principles of Transportation
GEOL 511 Geology of Soils
GEOL 530 Hydrology
REAL 804 Law of Real Estate Finance and Development
SYST 656 Transportation Systems Planning
SYST 544 Urban Transportation Systems and Technology
Electives from the Master of Environmental Studies program


LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING EMPHASIS (Fall 2007 and beyond)

Requirements:
Methods:
CPLN 716 Advanced GIS Seminar
or
LARP 741 Modeling Geographic Space

Foundations:
CPLN 585 Land Use Planning Principles and Practice
and
CPLN 676 Introduction to Environmental Planning

Suggested Electives
(Select two):
CPLN 648 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
CPLN 661 Site Planning
CPLN 662 Metropolitan Regional Planning
CPLN 664 Airport Planning
CPLN 680 Real Estate Finance and Investment
CPLN 714 Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis
CPLN 725 Innovations in Growth Management
CPLN 752 Advanced Transportation Analysis
BPUB 664 Principles of Transportation
GEOL 511 Geology of Soils
GEOL 530 Hydrology
REAL 804 Law of Real Estate Finance and Development
SYST 656 Transportation Systems Planning
SYST 544 Urban Transportation Systems and Technology
Electives from the Master of Environmental Studies program