Summer 2024 - PLAN 406 B100
Community Planning and Development (4)
Class Number: 1928
Delivery Method: Blended
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
May 6 – Jun 17, 2024: Fri, 9:30 a.m.–1:20 p.m.
Vancouver
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Instructor:
Meg Holden
meg_holden@sfu.ca
1 778 782-7888
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Prerequisites:
PLAN 100 or PLAN 200; and 60 units.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Examines the processes and practices of considering land in municipal and regional planning settings. Topics may include the historical development of land use and spatial planning at the local level in Canada, the evolving principles and practices of land development, valuation, sustainability, resilience, and climate planning. Through alternative approaches to land via economic, policy, legal, socio-cultural and socio-environmental lenses, the course equips students to become municipal land use planners.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course is designed as an intensive seminar and field experience course experience for upper-division undergraduate students interested in experience and tools for land use planning. The course will bring together contemporary municipal practices in land use and development planning, key theories of land and land use, and aspirational understandings of changing land use plans, practices, and guiding visions in order to contribute to climate action, decolonization and justice. Students are expected to participate actively in class and will complete both independent and group assignments in person and in the online component of the course. Students will undertake a group-based field research project in inclusionary, ecological, climate-friendly land use planning in a real-time municipal planning process. The class will include a number of local site visits to enhance students’ experiential learning.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
Understand the fundamentals of land use planning practice and theory in the Canadian municipal context;
Know how to read a municipal land use bylaw and related plans and policies, and to map out a development planning process;
Explore different theories and concepts of land and emergent strategies for the evolution of land use planning to serve different societal goals;
Become conversant in key climate, environmental and land use planning and development policies and regulations in BC;
Apply leading ideas about changing the dominant approach to land use planning in a local municipal climate-friendly planning context;
Experience land use planning policy visioning and outcomes through local site visits and exploration;
Gain seminar and field based participation experience, including in-depth substantive discussion, critical dialogue with planning professionals, ideation and revision based on feedback;
Complete a group-based project that contributes to a real-time leading edge municipal land use planning process.
Grading
- Active Participation 20%
- Short Assignments and Quizzes 30%
- Major Project 50%
REQUIREMENTS:
Outdoor activities, accessible by Skytrain; Group work
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
As noted in the week-to-week course calendar on Canvas, from SFU library and open access web sources.
RECOMMENDED READING:
As noted in the week-to-week course calendar on Canvas, from SFU library and open access web sources.
Registrar Notes:
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