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The Classes I Teach Fairly Regularly |
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Growth / City Design |
Community Leadership
and Change |
Applied GIS and Social
Planning |
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Topics in Transportation:
Bicycle Planning |
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Mobile GIS |
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PPPM325:
Community Leadership and Change (Fall, taught by Richie Weinman in 2007)
The purpose of this course is to explore community, change, and
sustainability by looking at the various domains that make up our local
urban areas. The course is not designed to give you the answer on how to
achieve sustainable community change, but rather to expose you to a
variety of elements and viewpoints about it. As future planners and
policy makers, part of the skill set you are learning is the capacity to
integrate and synthesize a multitude of perspectives into a coherent idea
– this class is ideally suited to push you in that direction. This class
will hopefully enlarge your conception about what community is and how
change is pursued, as well as push you to look inward, challenge your
assumptions and stereotypes about the world, and leave you with a richer
(if not more confused) notion of how the world works and what can be done
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PPPM4/536:
Applied GIS and Social Planning
(Fall)
This course is designed to augment students’ existing Geographic
Information System (GIS) skills and to apply those skills to real-world
projects. Learning GIS usually does not really happen until
one is faced with data constraints, data error, and the expectation of
saying something meaningful and useful given limited resources. This
course will provide such an environment.The class
will be divided into a lecture and a lab component. The first few weeks
of lab time will be crazy. Our community mapping day will be in mid
October and everyone needs to be up to speed on ArcPad mobile GIS
technology by that date. We will also be reviewing some key GIS skills
that you need to have, and we’ll be learning some more advanced GIS
extensions – Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst, and 3D Analyst. Lab times
in the middle of the term will be partly dedicated to the community
project and the advanced GIS skills. Labs at the end of the term will be
for your own individual project.
Our lecture time will follow a seminar format where
we will discuss issues of relevance to the use of GIS and social planning,
such as empowerment, citizen participation, and equity. |
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PPPM4/538:
Topics in Transportation: Bicycle Planning (Spring) )
This class is intended to answer the seemingly simple question: "Why don't
more people get out of their cars and bike?" The purpose of this
course is to give students the opportunity to explore the various elements
involved in planning and advocating for increased utilization of bicycles
as a form of urban transportation. The focus will be on three main areas:
1) Policy and planning; 2) design, safety, and legal issues; and 3) social
change. The class will consist of a combination of teaching and learning
approaches, including the use of lectures, guest lectures by
practitioners, in-class exercises, and out-of-class hands-on assignments. |
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PPPM4/507:
City Growth / City Design (Winter - will not be offered in 2007)
Why have cities and suburbs developed as they have? What are the
economic, political, social, and spatial forces that shape the American
city and its environs? If the aim is to change patterns of development,
what are the dimensions that need to be understood in order to put this
change into effect?
This course seeks to understand the broad range of
issues that have molded and continue to mold cities and suburbs. The scope
will be wide and will include everything from policy, planning, and
transportation issues down to specific urban design and architectural
approaches/strategies.
Through lectures, discussions, case studies, and
group projects, you will be asked to tease apart and ‘read’ current
development patterns in an effort to understand what must be done/dealt
with in order to create change.
This course is co-taught with Professor Nico Larco
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PPPM4/507: Mobile GIS (Winter)
This class will explore the use of GIS on Personal Digitial Assistants (PDA) for use in bottom-up community planning and field data collection. Students will be given a PDA for use in the course and will learn how to use GIS in the PDAs as well as design sophisiticated data entry interfaces.
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