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Fall 2017 | PA 5290 Section 001: Topics in Planning -- American Cities on Rails (34422)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 15
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?yingling+PA5290+Fall2017 http://classinfo.umn.edu/?guth0064+PA5290+Fall2017
- Class Description:
- There is momentum for developing rail transit corridors across U.S. metropolitan regions, but little data on how these corridor projects succeed despite long-standing fiscal, political, and sociocultural barriers for transit development in the car-centric U.S. As part of her ongoing book project on rail transit revival in the U.S., Professor Yingling Fan has traveled to major cities and met with rail transit development leaders throughout the country. This course will share lessons learned from her field trips and expert interviews. Course lectures will tell the story of how rail infrastructure projects have been built in contemporary U.S. cities and how the existing and proposed corridors have shaped the physical landscape and social fabric of neighborhoods, cities, and regions.
Students will be introduced to unique case studies of rail transit development. They will learn about the large unmet demand for cross-town transit in the San Francisco Bay Area and how transit fragmentation in the region hurts ridership. They will learn how Dallas pioneered the use of abandoned railways for transit development and urban regeneration. And they will learn how Detroit and New York City initiated rail transit corridor projects largely on land development promises and without transit agencies playing a primary role - in essence, "development-oriented transit."
Throughout the course,students will be challenged to think critically about the opportunities and challenges associated with rail transit development in U.S. cities. Students will be asked to identify practical solutions on how to capitalize on emerging rail transit investments and maximize the positive impacts of the investments - i.e.,get more bang for the buck.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34422/1179
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/yingling_PA5290_Fall2017.pdf
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/yingling_PA5290_Spring2018.pdf (Spring 2018)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 April 2017
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2017 Public Affairs Classes Taught by Yingling Fan