| 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 Medford's Riverfront | Teams present findings |
| Week 5: Visioning; The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues |
| 8 | Visioning | |
| 9 | The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues | |
| Week 6: Zoning Innovations and Incentives to Broaden Housing Affordability |
| 10 | Incentive - Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing Affordability | Preliminary plan findings will be presented by project teams to our client and the public the second week of October |
| Part II: Neighborhood Planning and Place-making: Trends, Methods and Approaches |
| Week 7: Neighborhood Planning: History and Future Directions |
| 11 | The Neighborhood Unit Historical Perspective | |
| 12 | Neighborhood Economic Development Planning: Tools and Prospects | |
| Week 8: Community Design, Placemaking, Form - Based Codes |
| 13 | Community Design, New Urbanism, and Alternative Regulatory Approaches. What's Applicable to the Medford Project? | |
| 14 | Project Workshop Day | |
| Part III: Planning and Designing Responsive Environments |
| Week 9: Landscape Planning, Riverfronts and Corridor Parks |
| 15 | Landscape Planning History and Current Approaches | |
| 16 | Ecological Considerations and Waterfronts | |
| Week 10: Sprawl, The Strip, and Smart Development |
| 17 | Thwarting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and the Evolution of Suburbia | |
| Week 11: Linking Land Use and Transportation |
| 18 | The Mobility Challenge for Planning, Transit-oriented and Infill Development | |
| 19 | Street Design and Traffic Calming | |
| Part IV: Integration and Implementation |
| Week 12: Plan Implementation |
| 20 | Project Workshop Day | |
| Week 13: Final Plan Recommendations and Implementation Strategies |
| 21 | Project Workshop Day | |
| 22 | Client Meeting with Project Teams | Final plan recommendations will be presented by student project teams to our client and the public the first week of December |
| Weeks 14 and 15: Final Project Preparation and Synthesis |
| 23 | Project Workshop Day | Instructors will meet with project teams to discuss project status and provide feedback |
| 24 | The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis | |
| 25 | Submission of Final Plan Reports | Written plans and reports due |