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Welcome to Wikiversity's School of Urban Studies and Planning. This is a developing school. There is an attempt to form a framework on this page to assist in the organization of content.

Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities. Other professions deal in more detail with a smaller scale of development, namely architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Regional planning deals with a still larger environment, at a less detailed level.

In the nineteenth century, urban planning became influenced by the newly formalized disciplines of architecture and civil engineering, which began to codify both rational and stylistic approaches to solving city problems through physical design. However since the 1960's the domain of urban planning has expanded to include economic development planning, community social planning and environmental planning.

In the 20th century, part of the task of urban planning became urban renewal, and re-invigorating inner cities by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities, some with much long-term infrastructural decay.

Wikiversity's Department of Psychology is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

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Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs, OC , O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian writer and activist. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times. "Jacobs came down firmly on the side of spontaneous inventiveness of individuals, as against abstract plans imposed by governments and corporations," wrote Canadian critic Robert Fulford. "She was an unlikely intellectual warrior, a theorist who opposed most theories, a teacher with no teaching job and no university degree, a writer who wrote well but infrequently."

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First level courses Introduction to Programming in C Prereqs: Basic Algebra, Fundamental understanding of how to use a Computer, Text Editor usage Materials: Compiler (GCC, Visual Studio, or any other) Goal: To teach the basics of programming, C syntax, and basic guidelines for writing clear code. Topics: C syntax, variables, boolean logic, arrays, loops, pointers, etc Category: Programming Language Introduction to Programming in C++ Prereqs: None Goal: To teach the basics of programming, C++ syntax, and basic guidelines for writing clear code. Topics: C++ syntax, variables, boolean logic, arrays, loops, pointers, etc Category: Programming Language Introduction to Programming in Python Prereqs: None Goal: To teach the basics of programming, Python syntax, and basic guidelines for writing clear code. Topics: Python syntax, variables, boolean logic, arrays/lists, loops, etc Category: Programming Language Introduction to Programming in Java Prereqs: None Goal: To teach the basics of programming, Java syntax, and basic guidelines for writing clear code. Topics: Java syntax, variables, boolean logic, arrays, loops, references, etc Category: Programming Language HTML and Website Creation Prereqs: None Goal: To teach the basics of HTML and CSS, methods to build and maintain websites, and the common tools used by websites to create Blogs, Forums, etc. Topics: HTML, CSS, FTP, Blogs, Message Boards, Wikis, etc Category: Web-oriented Introduction to Computer Science with Scheme Prereqs: Basic Algebra, Calculus Recommended, Introduction to Programming (any language) Goal: To teach the basics of computer science with the LISP language. Topics: Procedural and data abstraction, programming paradigms and environments, basic meta-linguistic abstraction. Category: Web-oriented Note: other languages welcome. It's highly suggested that you leverage as much of the lectures from other languages as possible. Introduction to Discrete Math Prereqs: None Goal: To teach some of the basic mathematic concepts behind programming and computer science Topics: boolean logic, predicate calculus, sets, functions, induction, trees, graph theory Category: Computer Science-related Math Note: exact cutoff between Intro to DM and DM 2 needs to be determined Introduction to Computer Forensics Prereqs: None Goal: To introduce the student to the basic concepts surrounding Computer Forensics Topics: Currently undecided Category: Computer Science, Criminal Justice Second Level Courses Data Structures and Algorithms Prereqs: Intro to Programming (any language), Intro to Discrete Math Goal: To teach important algorithms and data structures, their use, and the tradeoffs in choosing them Topics: Big-O notation, arrays, lists, trees, heaps, hash tables, sorting, search Category: Algorithms Discrete Math II prereqs: Intro to Discrete Math Goal: To teach more advanced topics in discrete math Topics: combinatorics, infinite sets, Big-O theory, program verification Category: Computer Science-related Math Computer design and operation Prereqs: Intro to Discrete Math Goal: To teach how computers and microchips work at a hardware level Topics: boolean algebra, K-maps, AND, OR, NOT gates, flip flops, registers, muxes, demuxes, ALUs, caches, ISAs, binary math Web Programming Prereqs: None Goal: To teach Javascript, Perl, PHP, and other web-related programming languages and techniques. Topics: Javascript, Perl, PHP, Subversion, Web Crawlers, etc Categories: Web-oriented, Programming Language Third Level Courses Automata Theory and Computability prereqs: Discrete Math II Goal: To teach principles of modern computational theory Topics: deterministic finite automata, non-deterministic finite automata, context-free grammars, push-down automata, Turing-machines, computability, space complexity Computer Architecture and Assembly Prereqs: Computer Design and Operation Goal: To teach how to programs run on the hardware using assembly Topics: RISC assembly, tradeoffs in processor design, optimization, caching, virtual-memory, I/O Internet Reliability Prereqs: None Goal: Give to the students an overview of the questions raised by the subject of Internet reliability Topics: free-scale networks, end-to-end design, DNS reliability, TCP congestion avoidance mechanisms Networks prereqs: Data structures, Discrete Math II Goal: To teach a basic understanding of how networks work and developing network-related applications Topics: network encapsulation, OSI model, TCP, UDP, IP, Ethernet, network configurations, bandwidth, round trip times, efficiency, routing Category: Networking Databases Prereqs: Data stuctures, Discrete Math II Goal: To teach how databases work Topics: SQL Queries, Database structure and normalization, Indexes, types of databases widly used, when to use a database and when not to, administration of a database, how databases work on the inside (generic). Category: Database Graphics Prereqs: Data stuctures, Discrete Math 2, Linear Algebra, Computer Architecture Goal: To comprehend about computer graphics Topics: graphics display system, primitive geometery rasterization, graphical object management, optimization Compilers Prereqs: Data stuctures, Discrete Math 2 Goal: To teach how compilers and linkers work. Topics: lexers, parsers, optimization Programming Languages Prereqs: Data stuctures, Discrete Math 2 Goal: Topics: Fourth Level Courses Advanced Computer Architecture Prereqs: Computer Architecture and Assembly Goal: To teach computer architecture, the design process, and how it relates to both performance and price Topics: Instruction set design (both CISC and RISC), instruction level parallelism, implementation, pipelining, interrupts, memory system design Operating Systems Prereqs: Data structures, Discrete Math II Goal: To teach a basic understanding of OS internals Topics: processes, scheduling, concurrency, resource allocation, deadlock, virtual memory, disk scheduling, security, transactions Neural Networks Prereqs: Data stuctures, Discrete Math 2 Goal: To teach the basics of neural networks and their applications Topics: biological models, backpropagation, self-organizing maps, Boltzmann machines, memory modeling Category: Networking Artificial Intelligence Prereqs: Data stuctures, Discrete Math 2 Goal: Topics: Security and Cryptography Prereqs: Data stuctures, Discrete Math 2 Goal: Topics: Network Programming Prereqs: Networking, Data Structures Goal: To teach how to do network programming Topics: BSD sockets, Winsock, Java sockets, I/O efficiency, timing and other networking issues Category: Networking Fifth Level Courses Advanced Operating Systems Prereqs: Operating Systems Goal: to teach how modern operating systems (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Windows, BSD, Linux, Plan9, Athena, Inferno, Solaris) work and differ Topics: microkernel vs monolithic, ACLs vs group permissions, kernel +user mode apps vs Windows monolithic, Everything is a file vs not a file, API differences Distributed Systems Prereqs: Networking, Data Structures Goal: theories and principles of designing distributed applications Topics: logical and vector clocks, atomic commits, rollback recovery, fault-tolerance Network Security Prereqs: Network Programming Goal: To teach the various method to secure both a network, and information transfer across the network. Topics: Categories: Networking, Security Computer Animation Prereqs: Graphics Goal: To teach the principle of computer based animation system Topics: history of animation, animation principle, motion control strategy Categories: Graphics, Animation Image Processing Prereqs: Graphics, Linear Algebra Goal: To teach the principle of how to do manipulation on Image Topics: Image Representation, point-based operation, line-based operation, region/area-based operation Categories: Graphics, Image Processing Workflow Prereqs: None Goal: To teach the principle of business process automatation Topics: Business Process definition, Workflow System, Workflow Management systems Categories: process, task management

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