Introduction to City Planning: History, Theory and Practice

This course introduces students to the history, theories, and contemporary practice of city and regional planning. Readings, lectures, class discussion, and walking tours focus on:

 - The evolution of planning ideas, strategies, institutions, and powers, and of planning’s influence on cities and regions around the world;

- The structure and dynamics of urban change;

 - The ways planners and social and environmental scientists have understood, theorized, and responded to social, economic, political, and environmental conditions and change over time; and

- The development of the planning profession and its relationships with allied fields, examining various types of planning, urban development, and design.