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Fall 2019 | PA 5290 Section 001: Topics in Planning -- Planning & Design for the Urban Public Realm (33337)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1.5 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 30
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 30
- Enrollment Status:
Open (25 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics.
- Class Notes:
- Planning & Design for the Urban Public Realm. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?brow1804+PA5290+Fall2019
- Class Description:
- The flight to the City is on, and along with the new residents and workers has come heightened demand for reinvestment in the urban public realm. In order to enhance both productivity and quality of life, American cities are reinvesting in older parks, plazas and streets, and building new public spaces in developing areas that never had them - waterfronts, industrial sites, rail yards, and acres of surface parking. The work of improving the public realm requires commitment to multi-disciplinary collaboration and broad and genuine stakeholder engagement processes at an entirely new level. Facilitating these processes - and successfully building this new public realm - requires uniquely skilled and open-minded planners and designers who can help us envision a better way to live together in our cities.
This course will integrate theory and practice into a framework for understanding the implementation of urban public realm projects - from inception through design and construction, start-up, and ongoing operations. Students will learn how planning, design, finance, and politics must be integrated into a single overarching vision if an urban public realm project is to be successfully completed.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This class is open to graduate students from the Humphrey School, the College of Design, and others interested in City Building.
- Learning Objectives:
- 1. Passion: Develop a general interest in and understanding of the urban public realm, the role of planning and design in creating good public places, and the "who, what, where, why, when, and how" of how the public realm is produced.
2. Tools and Skills:
Learn how to evaluate the character and quality of public spaces and use analytical tools and skills to study how urban public realm projects are implemented - from inception and planning to stakeholder engagement, project management, and funding through design, construction, and ongoing operations once completed. Students will create summary budgets, timelines, flow diagrams, narratives, and organizational charts for use in studying actors and processes.
3. Generalization: Learn how to apply this framework for understanding implementation - the process of taking a project from vision to reality - across a broad range of urban development projects.
- Grading:
- Coursework will include three graded assignments that will build upon one another.
Assignment #1: Response Paper (Individual) - 20%
Assignment #2: Project Analysis (Group) - 40%
Assignment #3: Final Paper (Individual) - 40%
TOTAL: 100%
- Exam Format:
- There will be no exams, just the three assignments, the last of which will be due in the last class on December 7.
- Class Format:
- Work during class time will include facilitated discussions, individual student presentations of response papers and final papers, and team presentations of group work. The instructor will offer short tutorials and lectures on background topics such as project economics/finance, design and construction, stakeholder engagement, and politics, front-loaded towards the beginning of the course. There will be an optional field trip in the first two weeks of class (not during class time) and a panel discussion with local public realm experts towards the end of the semester.
- Workload:
- Students will be required to read 30-60 pages a week for the first four weeks of the semester and complete three assignments, each of which will build on previous work.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33337/1199
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/brow1804_PA5290_Fall2020.pdf (Fall 2020)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/brow1804_PA5290_Fall2018.docx (Fall 2018)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 30 July 2018
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2019 Public Affairs Classes Taught by Peter Brown