Progressive Development

Catalog description

This course will examine approaches to real estate development as a policy tool, and specifically a tool to achieve traditional progressive policy objectives linked to social welfare and environmental sustainability – reducing poverty, improving health and education outcomes, lowering greenhouse gas emissions etc. The course will focus on the practice of this work, examining financial, regulatory, and land use tools that are regularly utilized to achieve policy objectives via real estate development. The course will utilize Philadelphia as a primary case study, drawing on the work of guest speakers working as practitioners in the field to illustrate how these tools are implemented. The goal will be to give students a working knowledge of the field. Prerequisite: CPLN 5400 : Introduction to Property Development