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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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• 23 December 2006: School founded.
  

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Selected biography

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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Learning Plan

Courses

100 Level Courses URBN 100 Introduction to Urban Studies and Planning 200 Level Courses URBN 200 Introduction to GIS 300 Level Courses URBN 300 Urban Policy URBN 301 Urban Community URBN 302 Land Use and Development URBN 303 Environmental Policy URBN 304 Poverty and Urban Planning URBN 305 Los Angeles, New York, and Dubai URBN 306 Theories of Architecture in Urban Planning URBN 307 Urban and Regional Economies URBN 308 Urban Planning Research Methods URBN 309 Politics of Urbanization URBN 310 Natural Resources URBN 311 History of Urban Planning URBN 313 Landscape Planning and Design URBN 314 Urban Design URBN 316 Topic:Urban Housing\Urban Housing URBN 318 Environmental Management URBN 319 Transportation Planning URBN 320 Sustainable Development URBN 321 Environmental Politics URBN 322 Urban Planning and the Law URBN 324 Research Design and Methods for Social Policy URBN 325 Economic Development URBN 326 Communications in Urban Planning 400 Level Courses URBN 401 Spatial Statistics URBN 402 Applied Economics for Urban Planning URBN 403 Global Cities URBN 404 International Planning URBN 405 Advanced GIS URBN 406 Navigating Bureaucracy in Urban Planning URBN 407 Advanced Case Studies of Urban Interventions URBN 408 Theories of Urban Architectural Design URBN 409 Public and Private Development URBN 410 Utilizing Technology in Urban Planning URBN 411 Real Estate Finance URBN 412 Real Estate Development Processes URBN 413 Finance Administration URBN 414 Advanced Theory in Urban Planning

Associated Wikimedia of Urban Studies