Community health planning is that activity within urban planning in which planners work with architects, public health professionals, and others to create a healthier, safer, more connected city. Concepts that are central to planning – design, resource environments, land use, mobility, environmental hazards and sustainability – are also central to community health planning. While planners … Read More
This experimental course has two interwoven objectives. First, Price students will learn to research and present on a significant policy/planning issue using a range of increasingly sophisticated techniques. Second, Price students will aid students from the USC School of Dramatic Arts (SDA) in integrating the material research into a play to be presented at the … Read More
Suddenly in the 1990s, the trend number of pedestrian deaths in the United States reversed, with a 60% increase in such deaths since. This course examines why this trend is occurring, the consequences of these deaths for family, friends, and communities, and how we can use policy and planning approaches to once again reverse the … Read More
Description We live in an urban world. The number of urban residents worldwide is already more than half, and it is constantly growing. The lives and activities of public policy analysts, planners, government officials, real estate developers, community organizers, and business leaders are shaped by this metropolitan world. This course examines the twentieth and twenty-first [...]
Description Community health planning is a rapidly growing area of expertise in which professionals work with neighborhood residents, community institutions, and government agencies to identify obstacles to improving health and opportunities for overcoming those obstacles. The course will teach students specific skills in community assessment and analysis, and introduce them to people and organizations actively [...]
Description While humans have been planning cities since the beginning of the urban era, only recently has a distinct profession of (city and) urban planning emerged and a fuller understanding of the role of real estate development become apparent. This course provides an overview of urban history, focusing on the interaction of urban planning and [...]
Description This course is required of all Ph.D. students in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development and is open to students who have completed the Ph.D. prerequisites, core courses and screening. My intention is that you will have fun and learn about teaching. That will only be possible if we all commit the same [...]
Description Far too often planning is defined in terms of physical structures and abstract economics. Planning's central concern is people, and the society that they create. This course examines the social context of planning, especially the ways in which race and ethnicity, gender, and class shape people's experience within the city, and how social attitudes [...]
Description While humans have been planning cities since the beginning of the urban era, only recently has a distinct profession of (city and) urban planning emerged. Understanding the history of a profession is an important component of any professional education. This course provides an overview of planning history, focusing on the twentieth-century and the United [...]
Description We live in an urban world. The number of urban residents worldwide is already more than half, and it is constantly growing. The lives and activities of public policy analysts, planners, government officials, real estate developers, community organizers, and business leaders are shaped by this metropolitan world. This course examines the twentieth and twenty-first [...]
