SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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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 | |
Week 3: Planning for Growth and Zoning Controls | ||
4 | Land Use Planning and Regulation - An Overview | Kaiser, Edward J., and David R. Godschalk. "Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree." Journal of the American Planning Association 61, no. 3 (1995): 365-384. Godschalk, David. "Land Use Planning Challenges: Coping with Conflicts in Visions of Sustainable Development and Livable Communities." Journal of the American Planning Association 70, no. 1 (2004): 5-13. Jacobs, Harvey M. "Fighting over Land: America's Legacy… America's Future?" Journal of the American Planning Association 65, no. 2 (1999): 41-149.
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5 | Zoning Controls - The Basics |
Hutton, David H. "Zoning a la Carte." Planning 72, no. 1 (2006): 30-31.
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Week 4: Making a Plan: Where to Begin? | ||
6 | Plan-making at the Community Level | Neuman, Michael. "Does Planning Need the Plan?" Journal of the American Planning Association 64, no. 2 (1998): 208-220. Baer, William C. "General Plan Evaluation Criteria: An Approach to Making Better Plans." Journal of the American Planning Association 63, no. 3 (1997): 329-344. |
7 | Imaging Medford's Riverfront |
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Week 5: Visioning; The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues | ||
8 | Visioning |
Naylor, Amy R. "Citizen Participation in Brunswick, Maine." American Planning Association, Planners' Casebook (Spring 1994): 1-8. Synder, Ken. "Putting Democracy Front and Center." Planning 72, no. 7 (2006): 24-29. Shipley, Robert, and Ross Newkirk. "Visioning: Did Anybody See Where it Came from?" Journal of Planning Literature 12, no. 4 (1998): 407-414. Tauxe, Caroline S. "Marginalizing Public Participation in Local Planning: An Ethnographic Account." Journal of the American Planning Association 61, no. 4 (1995): 471-481. |
9 | The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues | Chinitz, Benjamin. "Good for the Town, Bad for the Nation?" Journal of the American Planning Association 56, no. 1 (1990): 3-8. Fischel, William A. "Growth Management Reconsidered: Good for the Town, Bad for the Nation?" Journal of the American Planning Association 57, no. 3 (1991): 341-344.
Flint, Anthony. "Bourne Panel at Odds on Project." The Boston Globe, July 22, 2001. Salkin, Patricia E. "Barriers to Affordable Housing: Are Land Use Controls the Scapegoat?" Land Use Law and Zoning Digest 45, no. 4 (1993): 3-7.
Alexander, Frank S. "Inherent Tensions between Home Rule and Regional Planning." Wake Forest Law Review 539 (2000): 539-561. Wheeler, Stephen M. "The New Regionalism: Characteristics of an Emerging Movement." Journal of the American Planning Association 68, no. 3 (2002): 267-278. |
Week 6: Zoning Innovations and Incentives to Broaden Housing Affordability | ||
10 | Incentive - Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing Affordability | Porter, Douglas R. "Inclusionary Zoning." Urban Land 63, no. 1 (2004): 27-31. Downs, Anthony. "Break Down Those Barriers." Planning 71, no. 9 (2005): 20-23.
Jaffe, Martin. "Performance Zoning: A Reassessment." Land Use Law 45, no. 3 (1993): 3-9.
Langdon, Philip. "The Not-So-Secret Code." Planning 72, no. 1 (2006): 24-29. Baker, Brian. "Affordable Housing Conundrum." Urban Land 65, no. 5 (2006): 54-58. McCarron, John. "Preserving Affordable Housing." Urban Land 65, no. 1 (2006): 96-99. Staley, Samuel, and Eric R. Claeys. "Is the Future of Development Regulation Based in the Past? Toward a Market-Oriented, Innovation Friendly Framework." Journal of Urban Planning and Development 131, no. 4 (2005): 202-213.
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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 | Thomas, June. "Neighborhood Planning: Uses of Oral History." Journal of Planning History 2, no. 1 (2004): 50-70. Knack, Ruth Eckdish. "Dense, Denser, Denser Still." Planning 68, no. 8 (2002): 4-9. Pawlukiewicz, Michael. "Embracing Density." Urban Land 61, no. 7 (2002): 18-20.
Salvesen, David. "The Making of Place." Urban Land 61, no. 7 (2002): 36-41. |
12 | Neighborhood Economic Development Planning: Tools and Prospects |
Bergsman, Steve. "Community Renewal: Activating Chicago's Washington Park." Urban Land 63, no. 10 (2004): 104-107. Seidman, Karl F. Revitalizing Commerce for American Cities: A Practitioner's Guide to Urban Main Street Programs. The Fannie Mae Foundation, September 2004. (PDF - 1.8 MB)# NBDM Overview: What Is the Neighborhood Business Development Methodology. Neighborhood Connections. |
Week 8: Community Design, Placemaking, Form-Based Codes | ||
13 | Community Design, New Urbanism, and Alternative Regulatory Approaches. What's Applicable to the Medford Project? | Williams, Brian. "Designing a Downtown." Planning 70, no. 11 (2004): 20 -23. Ellis, Cliff. "The New Urbanism: Critiques and Rebuttals." Journal of Urban Design 7, no. 3 (2002): 261-291. Nasar, Jack L. "Does Neotraditional Development Build Community?" Journal of Planning Education and Research 23, no. 1 (2003): 58-68. Mandel, Charles. "It Fakes a Village." THIS Magazine (May/June 1997): 13-16. Schmitz, Adrienne. "The New Suburbia." Urban Land 63, no. 5 (2004): 52-57.
Lopez, Guillermo. "Public Space Design." Urban Land 65, no. 3 (2006): 60-64. Berkowitz, Ellen. "Toward a New Discourse on Mixed-Use Development." Urban Land 65, no. 1 (2006): 99-101. Search this site to evaluate design review and design standards from other cities and towns. |
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 | Center for Watershed Protection. "Smart Site Practices for Redevelopment and Infill Projects Redevelopment." Ellicott City, MD: Center for Watershed Protection, October 2001. (PDF)# Rishbeth, Clare. "Ethnic Minority Groups and the Design of Public Open Space: An Inclusive Landscape." Landscape Research 26, no. 4 (2001): 351-366. Fleming, Nancy L. "Urban Rivers Reborn." Urban Land 64, no. 5 (2005): 111-116. Tarnay, Stella, and Ed McMahon. "Toward Green Urbanism." Urban Land 64, no. 6 (2005): 54-59. Enlow, Clair. "Planning-Rethinking Streets as Parks-Seattle's Open Space Strategy Shifts its Emphasis Away from Traditional Parks to an Evolving "Urban Ecosystem" that Focuses on City Streets." Landscape Architecture 92 (2002): 52-58. |
16 | Ecological Considerations and Waterfronts | Dinola, Ralph, and Katrina Shum-Miller. "Getting behind the Wheel." Urban Land 65, no. 6 (2006): 70-75. Kreisler, Barbara. "Moving beyond Green." Urban Land 65, no. 6 (2006): 76-81. Durrant, Steve, and Joe Biernat. "A River Blueprint." Urban Land 60, no. 11/12 (2001): 70-75. Calkins, Meg. "Return of the River" Landscape Architecture (July 2001): 74-83. Dramov, Boris. "Successful Waterfront Design Principles." Urban Land (June 1997): 35. Martin, Frank Edgerton. "Making the River Connection Back to the Water's Edge." Landscape Architecture (February 2001): 62-67 and 88-91. |
Week 10: Sprawl, The Strip, and Smart Development | ||
17 | Thwarting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and the Evolution of Suburbia | Scan through sprawl and smart growth web sites and links, such as: Katz, Bruce. "The Permanent Campaign." Urban Land 62, no. 5 (2003): 44-52. Downs, Anthony. "Smart Growth: Why We Discuss It More than We Do It." Journal of the American Planning Association 71, no. 4 (2005): 367-378.
Miara, Jim. "Fueling Sprawl." Urban Land 59, no. 5 (2000): 78-79 and 109. Conte, Christopher R. "The Boys of Sprawl." Governing (May 2000): 28-33. Blaesser, Brian W. "Growth Management: A Developer's Perspective." Development Magazine 29, no. 3 (1998): 6 and 76. |
Week 11: Linking Land use and Transportation | ||
18 | The Mobility Challenge for Planning, Transit-Oriented and Infill Development |
Frank, Lawrence D., and Robert T. Dunphy. "Smart Growth and Transportation." Urban Land 57, no. 5 (1998): 58-63 and 76-77.
Tumlin, Jeffery, and Adam Millard-Ball. "How to Make Transit-Oriented Development Work." Planning 69, no. 5 (2003): 14-19. Strauss, Mark E., and Lawrence M. Rosenbloom. "Making TOD Real." Urban Land 63, no. 5 (2004): 14 and 17. Flint, Anthony. "Frustrating Development." The Boston Globe, June 7, 2003. McCann, Barbara. "Complete the Streets!" Planning 71, no. 5 (2005): 18-23. State of North Carolina. Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) Guidelines. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, August 2000. |
19 | Street Design and Traffic Calming | Knack, Ruth Eckdish. "Drive Nicely." Planning 64, no. 12 (1998): 12-15. Knapp, Keith K. "Traffic-Calming Basics." Civil Engineering 70, no. 1 (2000): 46-49. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) inaugurated a new website dedicated to all the known and/or electronically publicized transportation programs and studies that pertain to traffic calming. Also see ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) Web site. |
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 | |
Weeks 14 and 15: Final Project Preparation and Synthesis | ||
23 | Project Workshop Day | |
24 | The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis |
Ben-Joseph, Eran. "The Future of Standards and Rules in Shaping Place: Re-engineering the Urban Genetic Code." ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development 130, no. 2 (2004): 67-74.
Bartholomew, Keith. "The Evolution of Non-Governmental Land Use Planning Organizations." Journal of the American Planning Association 65, no. 4 (1999): 357-363. Birch, Eugenie Ladner. "Practitioners and the Art of Planning." Journal of Planning Education and Research 20, no. 4 (2001): 407-422. |
25 | Submission of Final Plan Reports |