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** URBN 310 [[Topic:Urban_planning_of_natural_resources|Natural Resources]] | ** URBN 310 [[Topic:Urban_planning_of_natural_resources|Natural Resources]] | ||
** URBN 311 [[Topic:History_of_urban_planning|History of Urban Planning]] | ** URBN 311 [[Topic:History_of_urban_planning|History of Urban Planning]] | ||
** URBN 313 Planning and Design of Landscapes | ** URBN 313 Planning and Design of Landscapes | ||
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** URBN 324 Research Design and Methods for Social Policy | ** URBN 324 Research Design and Methods for Social Policy | ||
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Urban Studies and Planning
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.
News
- Looking for contributors.
- 23 December 2006: School founded.
Current Learning Projects
The development of large scale projects for group learning and future pedagogical use is one of the goals of this school. Some of the ongoing learning projects are:
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Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better; for large schools it is not needed).
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Selected biography
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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