Fall 2020 | PA 5290 Section 001: Topics in Planning -- Planning & Design for the Urban Public Realm (33061)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1.5 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/25/2020 - 11/13/2020Fri 09:00AM - 11:45AMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (11 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics.
- Class Notes:
- Fall 2020's PA 5290-1 will be offered REMOTELY and will meet synchronously-online on Fridays, 9:00 - 11:45 a.m. Class will also involve a couple in-person sessions held outside (to be arranged with students) and online asynchronous recordings. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?brow1804+PA5290+Fall2020
- Class Description:
- NEW FOR 2020: Our view of what the urban public realm is and how we use it has changed this year, first with the impacts of Covid and then the murder of George Floyd and the protests that followed. In the past, this class has focused on both urban design theory and implementation - the planning and design of projects for public places. This year, however, we will also spend time on our more recent and unexpected experiences of the spaces that make up the urban public realm: as places for protest, as adaptable places (e.g., increased use during covid) and as temporary places (homeless campsites). We will, however, also take a longer view to the work of planning and building our public places (previous years, below) as well as on their maintenance, which is likely to suffer in coming years as a result of a slower economy and diminished tax revenues and resources for upkeep in cities throughout the US and around the world.PREVIOUS YEARS: 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.
- 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:
The course integrates theory and practice into a framework for understanding the experience of public places and the role of planning and design in the implementation of urban public realm projects - from inception through construction, start-up, and ongoing operations. Students will pursue the following three objectives:
Passion: Develop a general interest in and an understanding of the urban public realm and learn how to evaluate the character and quality of different types of public spaces.
Tools and Skills: Analyze how urban public realm projects are created by collecting and summarizing information such as objectives, budgets, timelines, narratives, and organizational charts that, together, explain the "who, what, where, why, when, and how" of public realm production, maintenance, and use.
Generalization: Develop your own theory of the public realm while learning about project 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 #2: Project Analysis - 30%
Assignment #3 Final Paper - 30%
Participation: 10%
TOTAL: 100%
- Exam Format:
- There will be no exams, just three individual writing assignments, the last of which will be due in class on the last day of class.
- Class Format:
Class Time: Class will meet on Zoom during the scheduled class time. Class is scheduled once a week for two hours and forty-five minutes, but that is a long time to be on zoom so some of that time will be replaced with asynchronous content (below). Generally, I plan to have much of the class be "flipped," with our live time together dedicated to student discussion and screen sharing, individual guests, and panel discussions. I will ask you all to help me manage the class, for example, monitoring the chat. I plan to invite a lot of people to visit us on zoom for individual talks as well as panel discussions and that will bring new perspectives and be fun and interesting, too.
Walks Together: I hope to hold several of our class sessions outdoors, in public places, during class time on Friday mornings. We may, for example, take several walking tours of public places, stopping along the way for discussion of readings and student papers. I will send a survey to all students in advance of our first meeting, seeking information about your ability and willingness to attend these in person meetings, for example, physical mobility, access to automobile/bike, if you are local, etc. More to follow. We will all have to be flexible and adaptable but I think if the weather cooperates we will have the opportunity to have some great in-person classes outdoors this fall.
Asynchronous Content: I also plan to post some pre-recorded video lectures/slide shows and videos of seminars for you to watch before class. My lectures will be relatively short and succinct, for example 15-20 minutes and 15-20 slides, each focused on a single topic, maybe one or two per week. There will also be several longer videos of seminars.
- Workload:
- Students will be required to read 60-80 pages a week and complete three individual writing assignments.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33061/1209
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/brow1804_PA5290_Fall2020.pdf
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/brow1804_PA5290_Fall2018.docx (Fall 2018)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 July 2020
Fall 2020 | PA 5290 Section 003: Topics in Planning -- City of White Supremacy (34142)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Meets With:
- PA 8290 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Fri 09:00AM - 11:45AMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (21 of 24 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics.
- Class Notes:
- Fall 2020's PA 5290/8290: City of White Supremacy will be offered REMOTELY and will meet synchronously-online on Fridays, 9:00 - 11:45 a.m. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?egoetz+PA5290+Fall2020 http://classinfo.umn.edu/?will5638+PA5290+Fall2020
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34142/1209
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