Part I: Fundamentals: Land Use Planning, Regulation, and Growth Management
| Week 1: Introduction | | 1 | Course Introduction | | Week 2: Project Introduction and Start-Up | | 2 | Community Planning Project Introduced | | 3 | Discussion of Client Project - Project Teams Formed | | Week 3: Planning for Growth and Zoning Controls | | 4 | Land Use Planning and Regulation - An Overview | | 5 | Zoning Controls - The Basics | | Week 4: Making a Plan: Where to Begin? | | 6 | Plan-Making at the Community Level | | 7 | Imaging Needham Center and its Streets | | Week 5: Growth Management and Growth Rate Controls | | 8 | State and Regional Planning Mandates versus Home Rule | | 9 | The Growth Management System and Growth Rate Controls: Local and Regional Issues | | Week 6: Visioning, Zoning Innovations | | 10 | Visioning | | 11 | Zoning Innovations |
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Part II: Emerging Issues, Trends, Methods and Approaches
| Week 7: New Urbanism and Transit-Oriented Development | | 12 | Neotraditional Planning, New Urbanism | | 13 | Transit-Oriented Development | | Week 8: Community Design, Placemaking | | 14 | Community Design and Alternative Regulatory Approaches What's Applicable to the Needham Project? | | 15 | Project Workshop Day | | Week 9: Sprawl and Smart Growth | | 16 | Sprawl and the Evolution of Suburbia | | 17 | Smart Growth |
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Part III: Other Topics and Techniques
| Week 10: Traffic Calming, Linking Land Use and Transportation | | 18 | Traffic Calming | | 19 | The Mobility Challenge for Planning: Linking Land Use
and Transportation | | Week 11: Edge Cities | | 20 | Edge Cities |
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Part IV: Integration and Implementation
| Week 12: Using Incentives for Plan Implementation | | 21 | Project Workshop Day | | 22 | More on Incentive-Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing Affordability | | Week 13: Managing Community Character: Emerging Issues and Strategies | | 23 | Project Workshop Day | | Weeks 14 & 15: Final Project Preparation and Synthesis | | 24 | Project Workshop Day | | 25 | Project Team Discussions and Final Document Planning | | 26 | The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis | | 27 | No Class: Submission of Final Plan Reports |
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