Introduction to Community Development Planning and Theory: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

This course will examine the theoretical and the historical evolution of planning and community development strategies and models designed to increase the physical, social, and economic assets of the built environment from a community to global level; the role and responsibilities of the development process in the profession; spatial and temporal aspects of urban development; problems and consequences of planned and unplanned changes in urban society; and an understanding of the values and ethics affecting public and private actors shaping the practice of planning.