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Part I: Fundamentals: Land Use Planning, Regulation, and Growth Management
Week 1: Introduction
1Course Introduction
Week 2: Project Introduction and Start-up
2Community Planning Project Introduced
3Discussion of Client ProjectProject teams formed
Week 3: Planning for Growth and Zoning Controls
4Land Use Planning and Regulation - An Overview
5Zoning Controls - The Basics
Week 4: Making a Plan: Where to Begin?
6Plan-making at the Community Level
7Imaging Medford's RiverfrontTeams present findings
Week 5: Visioning; The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues
8Visioning
9The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues
Week 6: Zoning Innovations and Incentives to Broaden Housing Affordability
10Incentive - Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing AffordabilityPreliminary plan findings will be presented by project teams to our client and the public the second week of October
Part II: Neighborhood Planning and Place-making: Trends, Methods and Approaches
Week 7: Neighborhood Planning: History and Future Directions
11The Neighborhood Unit Historical Perspective
12Neighborhood Economic Development Planning: Tools and Prospects
Week 8: Community Design, Placemaking, Form - Based Codes
13Community Design, New Urbanism, and Alternative Regulatory Approaches. What's Applicable to the Medford Project?
14Project Workshop Day
Part III: Planning and Designing Responsive Environments
Week 9: Landscape Planning, Riverfronts and Corridor Parks
15Landscape Planning History and Current Approaches
16Ecological Considerations and Waterfronts
Week 10: Sprawl, The Strip, and Smart Development
17Thwarting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and the Evolution of Suburbia
Week 11: Linking Land Use and Transportation
18The Mobility Challenge for Planning, Transit-oriented and Infill Development
19Street Design and Traffic Calming
Part IV: Integration and Implementation
Week 12: Plan Implementation
20Project Workshop Day
Week 13: Final Plan Recommendations and Implementation Strategies
21Project Workshop Day
22Client Meeting with Project TeamsFinal plan recommendations will be presented by student project teams to our client and the public the first week of December
Weeks 14 and 15: Final Project Preparation and Synthesis
23Project Workshop DayInstructors will meet with project teams to discuss project status and provide feedback
24The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis
25Submission of Final Plan ReportsWritten plans and reports due

 








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