Community Development and Neighborhood Planning

Catalog description

Examines the challenges and opportunities of neighborhood and community planning, with an emphasis on older cities and neighborhoods. Assesses the relationship between neighborhood decline and other problems and obstacles faced by urban areas (e.g., concentrated poverty, loss of employment opportunities, discrimination and red-lining, fiscal disparities, etc.) The second half of the semester will include frequent guest lectures by community leaders and practitioners where students will be expected to prepare questions, engage in discussion, and produce memos recording what was said. Prerequisite(s): A GOG/A USP 125 or A USP 201.