Part I: Fundamentals: Land Use Planning, Regulation, and Growth Management
Week 1: Introduction | 1 | Course Introduction | Week 2: Project Introduction and Start-Up | 2 | Community Planning Project Introduced | 3 | Discussion of Client Project - Project Teams Formed | Week 3: Planning for Growth and Zoning Controls | 4 | Land Use Planning and Regulation - An Overview | 5 | Zoning Controls - The Basics | Week 4: Making a Plan: Where to Begin? | 6 | Plan-Making at the Community Level | 7 | Imaging Needham Center and its Streets | Week 5: Growth Management and Growth Rate Controls | 8 | State and Regional Planning Mandates versus Home Rule | 9 | The Growth Management System and Growth Rate Controls: Local and Regional Issues | Week 6: Visioning, Zoning Innovations | 10 | Visioning | 11 | Zoning Innovations |
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Part II: Emerging Issues, Trends, Methods and Approaches
Week 7: New Urbanism and Transit-Oriented Development | 12 | Neotraditional Planning, New Urbanism | 13 | Transit-Oriented Development | Week 8: Community Design, Placemaking | 14 | Community Design and Alternative Regulatory Approaches What's Applicable to the Needham Project? | 15 | Project Workshop Day | Week 9: Sprawl and Smart Growth | 16 | Sprawl and the Evolution of Suburbia | 17 | Smart Growth |
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Part III: Other Topics and Techniques
Week 10: Traffic Calming, Linking Land Use and Transportation | 18 | Traffic Calming | 19 | The Mobility Challenge for Planning: Linking Land Use and Transportation | Week 11: Edge Cities | 20 | Edge Cities |
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Part IV: Integration and Implementation
Week 12: Using Incentives for Plan Implementation | 21 | Project Workshop Day | 22 | More on Incentive-Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing Affordability | Week 13: Managing Community Character: Emerging Issues and Strategies | 23 | Project Workshop Day | Weeks 14 & 15: Final Project Preparation and Synthesis | 24 | Project Workshop Day | 25 | Project Team Discussions and Final Document Planning | 26 | The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis | 27 | No Class: Submission of Final Plan Reports |
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