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165.
Community and Regional Planning, Introduction. (3)
This course is a survey introduction to the planning process at the community
and regional scale. The course provides a basic understanding of the spatial,
economic, political and physical factors that shape urban and regional
life. The course emphasizes the varieties of planning practices and how
each operates within urban and rural communities.
Students completing this course will have an understanding of the interrelated
forces and values that shape our communities and regions, and be prepared
for continued advanced study in community and regional planning and environmental
design studies. The course meets core requirements in the Bachelor of
Arts in Environmental Design program. Course work will involve informed
class discussion, attendance and reporting on public meetings in planning,
and completion of a mid-term and a final examination.
181. Introduction
to Environmental Problems. (3)
A lecture/discussion format will introduce the physical, biological and
social principles of resource use: water, air, soil, forests, rangelands,
energy and wildlife. Issues of ecology, population, pollution, economics
and sustainable development will be addressed and solutions suggested.
Three short essays and a final longer paper on a significant environmental
issue in each student's home community will consequences of environmental
problems, including interrelated physical and social dimensions.
203. Society
and the Environment. (3)
(Also offered as Econ 203.) Introduction to environmental and natural
resource issues of both global and local scale. Investigates basic causes
and consequences of environmental problems, including interrelated physical
and social dimensions.
265. Community
Planning: Concepts and Methods. (3)
This course is designed to teach basic concepts, processes, and techniques
of planning. Students learn to identify planning issues or problems; ascertain
the planning questions within these issues; and pursue various methods
to help gather information to answer these questions. After learning to
organize and analyze information, participants learn to use the information
to develop policy recommendations. Through this course, students develop
analytical skills through discussion, reading, research and critical thinking;
develop and sharpen skills of problem articulation, measurement, information
gathering, analysis, and data presentation; and begin an understanding
of how information can be translated into policy recommendations to address
the problems being assessed.
338. The City
in History. (3)
For 5,000 years people have been drawn to urban life. Cities have been
places of commerce, beauty, poverty, creativity, and pathology. In them
people have learned lessons about economic vitality, transportation, pollution,
justice, education, and social psychology. "The City in History"
will investigate how and why cities have grown around the world. Special
emphases will include 1) New Mexico's unique urban history (including
its pueblos and plazas) and 2) rapidly changing urban form over the last
50 years, featuring urban flight, shopping malls and suburban development,
and higher individual and social mobility. The class will include local
field trips to look at urban development in the context of student work.
376. Human
Settlements. (3)
This course addresses the social and built forms of human settlements
in an historical context. It will explore the cultural assumptions embedded
in a selected survey of historical developments, designs, and cities,
to understand how these were made manifest in regional and urban form.
The course will analyze broad historical epochs from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica
to the present to display and seek an understanding of a variety of human
settlement
patterns. The course objective is to provide an understanding of how human
societies pattern their settlements to reflect their philosophies, cultural
values, specific natural and social systems and individual/collective
actions. Additionally, the course is designed to help the student develop
a critical ability to distinguish and discuss diverse human settlement
forms.
408. Design and Planning Assistance Center. (3-6) [4-6]
Architectural and planning services to organizations and groups throughout
the state who cannot afford traditional professional services. May repeat
to a total of 12 hours. Advance approval required. Prerequisite for undergraduates:
permission of instructor/ Prerequisite for graduates: one upper-level
studio or permission of instructor.
413. Qualitative Research Methods
This course will introduce students to the methods and techniques of qualitative
inquiry. The course is geared to students who, (a) intend to conduct qualitative
scholarly research; and (b) students who wish to build their skills in
community based planning practice, using qualitative and facilitative
techniques. Though the class will address the varieties of paradigms and
epistemologies of qualitative research, the class will focus primarily
on preparing the students to conduct rigorous qualitative research, community
based planning, and analysis. Four additional classes will be arranged
for learning qualitative software.
423. Advanced Site & Environment. (3-4)
This seminar asks students to investigate "alternative" or "appropriate"
technologies, and then develop guidelines using one selected technology.
Students must apply their own guidelines to a real site and/or building
design.
424. Environmental
Planning Methods. (2)
This course focuses on methods that environmental planners use to gather
data and make judgments about projects. This course will present an overview
of current practices in environmental planning with an emphasis on environmental
documents. Specifically, we shall discuss the details of the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and its applicability to the natural and
urban environment in New Mexico. This NEPA overview will include discussions
concerning threatened and endangered species, wetlands determination/delineation,
archaeological clearances, air quality and noise impacts, public participation,
conflict resolution, environmental justice, and socioeconomic analyses.
This course will also involve the review of the environmental-site assessment
process, as well as current hazardous-waste-related legislation.
426. Water
Resources Studio. (3)
This class will focus on water resources and sustainable development in
New Mexico's Rio Grande basin. The class will address three contemporary
issues within the basin: 1) the conflict between the City of Albuquerque
and Isleta Pueblo over water quality standards for arsenic; 2) the impacts
on water quality and availability to traditional Hispanic and Pueblo Indian
communities if the ponderosa pine forest in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
is restored; and 3) the economic and environmental impacts of preserving
the silvery minnow, an endangered species living in the Rio Grande.
427. Watershed
Management. (3)
This course will examine watersheds as integrated planning units, land
use impacts on water quality, hydrology and water budget concepts, biodiversity,
experimental watershed research, grazing impacts, economic appraisal of
watershed conservation, riparian impact evaluation, and stakeholder involvement.
Student participation will be emphasized in a presentation/discussion
format. Through readings, research and class discussion, students will
formulate a management plan for a watershed of their choice.
428. Women
and Economic Development. (3)
This course examines women's economic and social roles in economic development,
especially in Third World societies; prepares students to assess gender
implications of development plans and projects; and provides analytical
skills in gendered development planning.
429. Problems.
(1-3 hrs. to a maximum of 6)
Problems are individualized topics conducted on a one-to-one student-faculty
arrangement. Allows for exploration of various subjects of interest to
students and faculty members.
431. Foundations
of Community Development. (3)
In this course on the foundations of community development, we explore
what community development means. What is community and what is the process(es)
by which we develop it? What are some of the necessities for a community
(eg. Infrastructure, economic activity etc.)? What are the structural
factors in the community development process with which a planner must
contend? What are the obstacles? What are the tools and potential resources?
What are the issues to consider? And perhaps most importantly, what are
the ways in which any community development process is truly reflective
of the desires of the people in that community? What is the role of the
"planner" in developing community?
433. Foundations of Physical Planning. (3)
This is a new seminar in planning methods for graduate students in
the Planning, Landscape and Architecture degree programs. Lectures, exercises
and cross-disciplinary projects will explore the wide range of physical
planning practice from regional plans to physical details of the built
environment. It is designed to provide experience and practice in physical
aspects of planning along with graphic methods of analysis and communication
suitable for use in advanced studios and in professional practice.
462. The Housing
Process. (3)
A broad based introduction of the housing system, housing policies, finance
and funding mechanisms, and development dynamics.
465. Land
Development Economics. (3)
The objectives of this course are to (1) introduce the fundamental tools
used in land economics, development financing, and local economic analysis;
(2) identify the major public issues related to land development in the
national, the regional southwest and the local context; (3) develop a
working understanding of the linkages between urbanization and land development,
and how these linkages are seen from differing perspectives (capitalist,
socialist, naturalist); and (4) provide the student with the skills to
quantitatively and nonquantitatively evaluate a land development project
and land use plans from an area-wide perspective.
466. Public
Sector Project Analysis. (3)
(Also offered as Econ 466.) Project evaluation, cost-benefit analysis,
capital budgeting, financing, federal-state relationships, environmental
and public welfare impacts of projects, and other related issues. Prerequisites:
Econ 300, 350.
470. Seminar.
(1-3 hrs., To a maximum of 6)
Various topics related to planning in the southwest.
473. Planning
Process and Issues of Native American Reservations. (3)
This course examines tribal identity issues central to Native American
community development in the United States.
474. Cultural
Aspects of Community Development. (3)
This course provides an understanding of how different cultural values,
behavior and decision structures affect community development strategies.
Its intention is to introduce planners, social scientists, development
practitioners and researchers to community analysis and to cross-cultural
aspects of planning. Four multicultural areas serve as cases for comparative
analysis of community development.
480. Community Growth and Land Use Planning. (3)
This course looks at the consequences of unplanned growth on New Mexico's
communities and new ways to plan and manage land use. Fiscal, social,
economic, spatial and cultural impacts of unplanned growth are analyzed.
How communities in New Mexico and others around the nation have responded
to the challenges of growth are thoroughly discussed. A student may take
this course or Land Use Controls to satisfy core requirements. Registration
by permission of the instructor is encouraged for undergraduate and non-CRP
graduate students.
481. Computer
Applications for Planning and Administration. (3)
This course will introduce students to computer applications necessary
for the communication of planning information. The purpose of the course
is to prepare students for using basic computer tools necessary in the
preparation, analysis and formatting of data and graphic presentations
for planning. Software learned in this course includes those that are
supported in other CRP courses (with the exception of GIS which is taught
elsewhere). Applications chosen are cross-platform (Mac or PC) and model
the mixed hardware environments of professional planning offices. Students
will learn how to be intelligent consumers of computer technology!
482. Introduction
to Graphics. (3)
This course builds the capacity of planners with little graphic experience
to produce and interpret graphically presented visual analysis and physical
plans. The intent of this course is to train planners in spatial analysis
and visual thinking.
483. Introduction
Information Systems. (3)
Overview of GIS capabilities in the context of municipal government and
other planning applications. Includes lectures, demonstrations and discussion
of urban GIs applications.
484. Neighborhood Planning. (2)
This course examines the scale of the neighborhood and its relation to
the larger community. The neighborhood planning process is a discourse
between the personally valued neighborhood and the often agenda-driven
government agencies. We will consider the neighborhood as home, a pattern
of land uses, and a politically recognized entity. Class lectures and
assignments will focus on planning processes, resident involvement in
neighborhood activities, the impacts and implementation of neighborhood-based
plans, and the differences between designing new neighborhoods and working
with existing neighborhoods.
485. Practice
of Negotiation and Public Dispute Resolution. (3)
(Also offered as Pub Ad 588.) This course helps students develop effective
ways to negotiate and apply strategic tactics in the context of professional
practice. The course uses dynamic simulations of development and planning
projects of interest to Planners, Engineers, and Public Administrators.
Introduces students to new ways to negotiate and resolve disputes in the
context of professional practice throughout collaborative decision making
and problem solving. REQUIRED FOR THE DUAL MPA/MCRP DEGREE.
486. Planning
Issues in Chicano Communities. (3)
This course is designed to apply planning concepts and techniques to issues
facing Chicanos universally and Chicanos in the region, with reference
to planning experiences in Chicano/a communities elsewhere. The course
should address community development strategies, particularly those that
are community driven, including community development corporations, issues
of housing, economic self determination, and human services.
487. Political
Economy of Urban Development. (3)
This course provides an opportunity to analyze the political and economic
factors shaping urban development with particular emphasis on the impacts
of economic restructuring, the rise of "globalization," and
the new urban forms and relations. We begin by assessing underlying assumptions
about history and society and the difference they make in how urban growth
is explained and what planning policies are recommended. We examine specific
recent trends in urban change including post World War II developments
as seen in the fiscal crisis of the 70s, restructuring of the 80s, and
the increasing internationalization of the economy and the rise of global
cities. Finally, we explore new social formations and challenges. Students
interested in rural issues may also want to be aware of the dynamics of
urban development - since so much of rural issues involves protection
from urbanization. As planners, we will be concerned about how these changes
affect the process of planning and policy.
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