GEOG 5582 - Planning Studio

A project oriented studio course designed to focus on applied planning and design techniques. Integration and application of skills and knowledge from other courses to “real-life” community-based planning projects. Projects will integrate the physical and human environments: terrain and landscape, natural and cultural context, microclimate, infrastructure, and adjacent land uses, economic and environmental impacts, etc. Studio seminars, discussion, and field visits will explore theory and practice in observation, problem formulation, alternatives generation, and plan development and presentations.

Note: Open to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: 14 hours of geography or advisor and/or instructor approval.

Credits: 3 hours