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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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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 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 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 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 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 List of resources, projects, and courses offered

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