| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Centralville | Teams present findings |
| Week 5: Visioning; The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues | ||
| 8 | Visioning | Ron Mallis, a DUSP alumnus and Project Manager with Goody Clancy Associates, will discuss the challenge of facilitating and managing a public visioning process related to development of a plan |
| 9 | The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues | David Soule, Associate Director, Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, and former Executive Director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, will join the class to discuss the city economic competitiveness issues, suburban-urban divide, and the challenge of regional planning amidst a strong "home rule" culture |
| Week 6: Zoning Innovations | ||
| 10 | Zoning Innovations | Preliminary plan findings will be presented by project teams to our client and the public during week 6 |
| Part II: Neighborhood Planning and Place-Making: Trends, Methods and Approaches | ||
| Week 7: Lowell Presentations | ||
| 11 | Dry Run - Presentation to George | |
| 12 | Work Day - Evening Presentation at Lowell | |
| Week 8: Neighborhood Planning: History and Future Directions / Community Design, Placemaking, Formbased Codes | ||
| 13 | The Neighborhood Unit and Community Design | |
| 14 | Project Workshop Day | Maggie Super, head of Groundworks Lawrence, will join the class to discuss innovate neighborhood economic development strategies |
| Part III: Planning and Designing Responsive Environments | ||
| Week 9: Traffic Calming, Street Design | ||
| 15 | Street Design | |
| 16 | Traffic Calming | A Traffic Calming guru from VHB will join the class to speak about this topic |
| Week 10: Sprawl, The Strip, and Smart Development | ||
| 17 | Thwarting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and the Evolution of Suburbia | |
| Week 11: Linking Land use and Transportation | ||
| 18 | The Mobility Challenge for Planning Transit-Oriented and Infill Development | |
| 19 | Ecological Considerations | |
| Part IV: Integration and Implementation | ||
| Week 12: Using Incentives for Plan Implementation | ||
| 20 | More on Incentive-Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing Affordability | Drew Leff of GLC Development Resources in Boston will join the class to discuss this topic and its potential application to plans for Centralville |
| Week 13: Final Plan Recommendations and Implementation Strategies | ||
| 21 | Project Workshop Day | |
| 22 | Client Meeting with Project Teams | Final plan recommendations will be presented by student project teams to our client and the public during week 14. |
| Weeks 14 and 15: Final Project Preparation and Synthesis | ||
| 23 | Project Workshop Day | |
| 24 | The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis | |
| 25 | Submission of Final Plan Reports | Written plans and reports due |