Planning pedagogy and globalization

The syllabi on this webpage were solicited as part of a Global Planning Interest Group initiative to better understand how we, as educators, are going about the business of incorporating a global perspective into the courses we teach. A content analysis of this material will appear in an article titled, "Planning pedagogy and globalization," by Keith Pezzoli and Deborah Howe. The article is scheduled to published in JPER's Special Issue on Globalization and Planning (edited by Farokh Afshar and Keith Pezzoli), Vol 20, #3 (Spring 2001).

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There is a total of 69 syllab. Only a one-paragraph summary is provided for each course outline. Click on the author's name below to jump to their course. Otherwise scroll down to browse through all courses. If there is interest in expanding this site for purposes of knowledge networking, we can do that. To the authors of this material: if you would like me to post a link to your own website, or if you would like me to include your contact information, I will be happy to do so. Send links and/or current contact info to me, Keith Pezzoli, at kpezzoli@ucsd.edu. You can also reach me by phone at 858-534-3691.

#	Instructor	Course title	Institutional affiliation
1.	Afshar,  F.	International Rural Development Planning (IDRP): Principles and Practices	U. of Guelph
2.	Afshar, F.; Douglas, D.	The Rural Settlement: Planning, Resourcing, Management	U. of Guelph
3.	Amini, M.	Information Management for Economic Development Planning	Ball State
4.	Amirahmadi, H.	Global Restructuring, Planning and Economic Policy	Rutgers
5.	Amsden, A.	Industrialization, Development and Policy Analysis	MIT
6.	Arias , E.	Sustainable Growth?	U. of Colorado at Denver
7.	Assaad, R.	International Urbanization and Urban Planning	U. of Minnesota
8.	Assaad, R.	Development Planning and Policy Analysis	U. of Minnesota
9.	Audirac, I.	World Cities	Florida State
10.	Barndt, D.	Critical Education and Social Change	York
11.	Choguill, C.	Urban and Regional Planning/Third World Development	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12.	Clapp, J.	Global Environmental Politics	York
13.	Clark, K.	Planning Issues in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands	U. of Arizona
14.	Craig, J.	Co-operatives and Cooperation	York
15.	Dandekar, H.	Urban and Regional Theory	U. of Michigan
16.	Dandekar, H.	Urban and Regional Planning in Developing Countries	U. of Michigan
17.	Dandekar, H.	Cities and International Development	U. of Michigan
18.	Daniere, A.	Planning for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries	U. of Toronto.
19.	Deitrick, S.	Regional Development and the Global Economy	U. of Pittsburgh
20.	Desfor, G.	Urban Development Processes	York
21.	Desfor, G.	Theory of International Development	York
22.	Doan, P.	Project Planning in Developing Countries	Florida State
23.	Doan, P.	Strategies for Urban and Regional Development in Less Developed Areas	Florida State
24.	Doan, P.	Infrastructure and Housing Issues in Developing Countries	Florida State
25.	Douglass, M.	International Political Economy and Urban Policy on the Pacific Rim	U. of Hawaii at Manoa
26.	El-Shakhs, S.	International Comparative Planning	Rutgers
27.	Fainstein, S.; Amirahmadi, H.	Seminar on Global Cities	Rutgers
28.	Feldman, M.	Spatial and Fiscal Relationships of Communities	U. of Rhode Island
29.	Fischer, G.;  Arias, E.; Repenning, A.;  Ambach, J.;  Perrone, C.	Designing the Information Society of the Next Millennium	U. of Colorado at Denver
30.	Found, B.	Rural Planning	York
31.	Fuller, T.; Douglas, D.	Rural Planning and Development Theory	U. of Guelph
32.	Hibbard, M.	Communities and Regional Development	U. of Oregon
33.	Johnson, D.	Development Planning in the Third World	U. of Tennessee, Knoxville
34.	Kell, R.	Politics and Planning	York
35.	Kell, R.	Environmental Politics	York
36.	Kwok, R.Y.	Urban Design in Asia and the Pacific	U. of Hawaii at Manoa
37.	Kwok, R.Y.	Industrialization and Development Planning in Asia and the  Pacific: East Asian Economies	U. of Hawaii at Manoa
38.	Kwok, R.Y.;  Zhou, K.X.	Society and Politics in China	U. of Hawaii at Manoa
39.	Kwok, R.Y.;  Zhou, K.X.	Contemporary China: Industrialization and Reform	U. of Hawaii at Manoa
40.	Lacey, L.	International Development and Social Change	U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
41.	Leaf, M.	Theory and Practice of Project Planning in the Third World	U. of British Columbia
42.	Miles, R.	Gender and Development	Florida State
43.	Miles, R.	Population and Development Planning	Florida State
44.	Muskin, J.	Introduction to Development Planning	Florida State
45.	Nystuen, J.	Sustainable Environments: Local to Global Perspectives	U. of Michigan
46.	Penz, P.	Global Justice and the Environment	York
47.	Pezzoli, K.	Urban World System	U. of California, San Diego
48.	Polenske, K.	Property Rights Under Transition	MIT
49.	Pothukuchi, K.	Comparative Issues in Urban Planning	U. of Wisconsin-Madison
50.	Pothukuchi, K.	Seminar on Trends and Issues in Public Planning: Gender and the City	U. of Wisconsin-Madison,
51.	Pothukuchi, K.	Planning for Human Settlements in Developing Countries	U. of Wisconsin-Madison,
52.	Rahder, B. (w/ G. Allen)	Bioregional Planning Workshop	York
53.	Razzaz, O.; Norberg-Bohm, V.	Planning for Sustainable Development	MIT
54.	Rees, W.	The Ecological Context of Planning	U. of British Columbia
55.	Rees, W.	Seminar on Eco-Economic Systems (Ecological Economics)	U. of British Columbia
56.	Sanyal, B.; Moore, M.	Planning Institutions and Processes in Developing Countries	MIT
57.	Seabrook, J.; Khor, M.; Sachs, W.	Economics, Ecology and Globalization:  A  North-South Perspective	Schumacher College
58.	Siembieda, W.	Land and Housing in Latin America	U. of New Mexico
59.	Smith, M.	Community Field Research, Theory and Analysis	U. of California, Davis
60.	Smith, M.	The Political Economy of Urban and Regional Development	U. of California, Davis
61.	Storper, M.	Theories of Regional Economic Development	U. of California, Los Angeles
62.	Susskind, L.; Moomaw, W.	International Environmental Negotiation	MIT
63.	von Rabenau, B.	Urban sector and Project Planning for Developing Countries	Ohio State
64.	von Rabenau, B.	City Planning in the Contemporay World	Ohio State
65.	von Rabenau, B.	Developing Countries Studio	Ohio State
66.	Wekerle, G.	New Social Movements	York
67.	Wekerle, G.	Social Policy and Planning	York
68.	Wu, W.	International Planning	Virginia Commonwealth
69.	Yabes, R.	Global Dimensions of Urban and Regional Planning	Arizona State

1	Marcuse, P.	Globalization and Urban Policy	Columbia University

The 69 syllabi appearing on the above list were submitted over the course of a two-year period (January 1997 through January 1999). Pezzoli and Howe received a total of 75 syllabi, but we decided not to include six of these in the content analysis since they did not give even minimal attention (such as a lecture or a set of readings) to global mega-trends and/or attention to non-western planning issues. The remaining 69 syllabi represent contributions of 60 educators from 29 institutions. Certain institutions are over-represented. There are twelve syllabi from York University and seven from Florida State. Fourteen educators have contributed two to four syllabi for a total of 34 courses, half of the sample. Three fourths of the institutions have planning programs that are accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board, 40 percent of the universe of 69.

Clearly, we did not capture the full range of innovative course materials. For this reason, I will be happy to add new courses to our list. Perhaps in a couple of years we can do another, more robust content analysis. In the meantime, we have the space for building the list. The box appearing (above) at the end of the original list of 69, is where I will add new material. We already have our first addition, Peter Marcuse's course on Globalization and Urban Policy.

1. International Rural Development Planning (IDRP): Principles and Practices

Prof. Farokh Afshar

University of Guelph

                Examines the scope and nature of international development planning focusing on rural development.  Takes a global perspective: emphasizing the South but including the North and the links between the two; emphasizing the local level while exploring the links between the local and the global.  Examines the rural context and rural development policies, programs, and projects.  Examines area-based, organizational and sectoral/targeted approaches to rural development.  Examines the rural development planning process at the national, regional and local levels.  Participants learn through readings, seminars, case studies, videos, invited speakers, sharing of experiences, possibly field visits, and through critiquing examples of rural development in presentation and in writing.  Group work is emphasized but with individual contributions identified and evaluated.

2. The Rural Settlement: Planning, Resourcing, Management

Prof. Farokh Afshar and David Douglas

University of Guelph

                Most people live and work in settlements.  Settlements bring people together to live, work, obtain services, enjoy life, exchange ideas, create, innovate, govern and nurture community.  As centres of such activities, rural settlements - municipalities, small cities, towns and villages - play a pivotal role in the development of rural areas and societies.  The extent to which rural settlements and people in them do well or badly depends much on how well such settlements bring together form and function- natural and built environment, economy, society, resources (financial and human), institutions and governance.  This in turn depends much on how well settlements are planned, resourced and managed. The objective is a sustainable, 'civil' settlement.  The course will examine what such a settlement is and how it is created, nurtured and sustained.  In particular it will examine how such settlements emerge from and can be practically guided through planning, design, resourcing and management, bringing together its multiple dimensions in one happy, healthy place.  Learning will be through readings, case studies, seminars, guest speakers, video, onsite visits and projects. Class assignment could be a paper or a project.  We will use the comparative method drawing on both the Canadian and the overseas, notably Third World, contexts.

 

3. Information Management for Economic Development Planning

Dr. Minoo S. Amini

Ball State University, Urban Planning

                The emphasis in this studio course is on the information management, tools and strategies for local economic development.  This relies upon the use of census and other published data sources as well as personal interviews and site visits.  The result is a document created with hands-on data collection, data generation, data manipulation, and data analysis all related to economic development policy recommendation.  This course also involves the identification of the problem and the process of dealing with it.  Often specific analytical, synthetical and evaluative techniques are explored.

Text:  Blakely Edward, Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice

4. Global Restructuring, Planning and Economic Policy

Prof. Hooshang Amirahmadi

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy

                The purpose of this seminar is to define the nature and causes of the present global political-economic and territorial restructuring and to indicate implications for world development, planning and public policy. Readings and research assignments focus on a number of important trends and institutions that have increasingly shaped the world system since the 1970s.  These include specific political economic systems at the national scale an d a new organization of space.  The concluding part of the course will examine the alternative development strategies, planning theories and economic policies that have been proposed to address the new world political and economic order.

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5. Industrialization, Development and Policy Analysis

Prof. Alice H. Amsden

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Urban Studies and Planning

                The focus of this course is on government policy in the transformation of post World War II "late industrialization" countries (which have had to develop without the competitive asset of proprietary pioneering technology).  Some comparisons with the First and Second Industrial Revolutions, and postwar Europe and the United States, are also examined.  The questions of analytical interest are:  why the role of government in industrial transformation has changed over the last two centuries; what theories, if any, explain such a change and intervention generally; why such intervention is politically and intellectually controversial; how specific policies have influenced industrial development; and why some governments have performed better than others in implementing policies. Reader

 

6. Sustainable Growth?

Prof. Ernesto Arias

University of Colorado, Planning and Design

                Sustainability as a concept affects a broad set of interests and views.  Its fundamental pursuit is the endurance of any human activity as related not only to contexts of renewable and non-renewable resources, but maybe more importantly to human motivation.  No matter the point of view of any of its definitions, the problem (state of Sustainability as well as the means to attain it) is by nature a "wicked" one, i.e., there are really no right or wrong solutions to all stakeholders (interest groups) affected, where a solution for one is a problem for another.  Given, the problem, the seminar has three content and learning purposes: (1) Explore the concept of Sustainability in the development of habitas at three different scales of buildings, cities and regions, (2) Explore learning as a self-enhancing and self-directed, yet collaborative activity and (3) Explore the integration of technological innovation.

 

7. International Urbanization and Urban Planning

Prof. Ragui Assaad

University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

                The main objective of this course is to assist you in writing a significant term paper on a topic relating to international urbanization, urban planning, and/or urban sustainability. Using case studies, we will consider specific planning problems in housing, transportation, employment, and urban service delivery.  We will also study phenomena such as squatter settlements and the informal economy which normally proceed unplanned and without formal control by government.

 

8. Development Planning and Policy Analysis

Prof. Ragui Assaad

University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

                This course examines the techniques and assumptions of development planning and policy analysis at the regional and project levels.  The course focuses on modeling techniques and planning applications rather than on theory.  The objectives of the course are to analyze the direct and indirect economic effects of government  interventions in the economy, with a stress on inter-sectoral linkages.  We will cover planning techniques such as macroeconomic modeling, input-output analysis, social accounting matrices and multipliers.  We will also examine techniques used in project appraisal and evaluation such as cost-benefit analysis.  While the focus will be on developing countries,many of the techniques covered will have applications in the U.S. context as well.

Text:  Chowdury and Kirkpatrick, Development Policy and Planning:  An Introduction to Models and Techniques.

 

9. World Cities

Prof. Ivonne Audirac

Florida State University, Urban and Regional Planning

                This course is designed to acquaint the undergraduate student with the study of cities in an international context.  The course seeks to develop a comprehensive sensitivity to urban environments from the region to the local community at four levels:  the historical, the environmental, the economical and the socio-cultural--with special emphasis on the problems and perspectives encountered in city and regional planning.  The course in divided into two modules.  The first is designed to introduce the student to different thematic approaches on the city:  the settlement pattern, the process of urbanization, urban landscapes, and city planning. The second module of the course explores cities in six regions of the world:  North America, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia and Oceanio.

Text:  Short, John, Human Settlement

      Rybczynski, Witold, City Life

      Wilheim, Jorge, FA: Messages from a Near Future

 

10. Critical Education for Social Change

Prof. Deborah Barndt

York University, Environmental Studies

                Examinations of individual and social learning from a critical perspective.  Based on a theoretical examination of knowledge production and power relations, several streams of critical education are explored: native education, labor education, critical pedagogy, feminist pedagogy, popular education, anti-racist education, and global/development education. Applied work will focus on the role of these approaches within schools, organizations, and movements for social change.

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11.  Urban and Regional Planning/ Third World Urban Development

Prof. Charles Choguill

University of Illinois, Urban and Regional Planning

                The purpose of this course is to introduce and develop the concepts and ideas associated with the process of urbanization in the developing world.  The theoretical approaches included in the courses will be supplemented by case studies and the lessons learned from real world experience.  Emphasis will be placed on cross-cultural studies although in-depth analysis of certain issues within a single national context will also be included.

Text:  Gilbert and Gugler, Cities, Poverty and Development:  Urbanization

in the Third           World

          HABITAT, An Urbanizing World:  Global Report on Human Settlements 1996

 

12. Global Environmental Politics

Prof. Jennifer Clapp

York University, Environmental Studies

                Advanced exploration of the linkages between the global political system and the world's natural environment.  In particular, the course addresses: history of conceptions of the environment as a political issue in the global arena; theories of international conflict and cooperation with respect to the natural environment; interactions between the current global political economy and the environment; and empirical investigation of key issue areas which illustrate the above concepts.

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13. Planning Issues in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Prof. Kenneth Clark

University of Arizona, Interdisciplinary Graduate Planning Program

Seminar on the key planning issues which affect the international border between Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora.  During the semester, areas along the 2,000 mile border will be examined.  Seminar topics will be enhanced by invited experts on key issues of migration, growth and change, social issues and political realities will be examined. Each student will select a related border region to study in parallel with the structure of the seminar.

Text:  Martinez, Border People:  Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico

Borderlands. Herzog, Where North Meets South

14. Co-operatives and Cooperation

Prof. J. Craig

York University, Environmental Studies

                A conceptual and empirical appreciation of the co-operative movement/system in Canada and selected parts of the world, with emphasis on the  historical and regional patterns of development.  Particular attention will be given to the issues and challenges facing the housing, credit unions, consumer and the agricultural sectors in terms of six dimensions: Principles and philosophy; history; management processes; organizational and interorganizational dynamics; volunteer roles and control structures; and development strategies.

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15. Urban and Regional Theory

Prof. Hemalat C. Dandekar

University of Michigan, Urban Planning

                This course will introduce students to a range of theoretical contributions from the social sciences and from the physical planning professions, which enhance understanding of the growth and the development of human communities.  Theories that help to conceptualize the activities of people and societies in the physical domain and assist in the prediction of the future trends in the built and the natural environment are emphasized.  Concepts of sustainability, and long term viability are featured.  Theories and ideas are drawn broadly from the disciplines of architecture, urban planning, geography, landscape architecture, sociology, economics and political science.  They will be described from the perspective of utility in application and action in the spatial realm. They will address a range of scales from the neighborhood and community levels, through urban, metropolitan, national/sub-national, and global, environmental/economic regions.

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16. Urban and Regional Planning in Developing Countries

Prof. Hemalata C. Dandekar

University of Michigan, Urban Planning

                The underlying goal of this course is to explore the concept of "development" and the idea of "development planning" and to provide students with the theoretical background to evaluate development policy. These are to be critically evaluated in the context of the current deregulation and liberalization of trade and exchange throughout the world. The course has three main objectives:  (1) to understand the history and theory underlying planning interventions aimed at bringing about development and change, (2) to look at specific socio-economic, cultural and spatial issues in the Third World contest and compare them, where possible, to the First World context, and to raise critical questions regarding the role of development planning as currently practiced in the Third World.

Text:  Hemalata C. Dandekar, Men to Bombay, Women at Home:  Urban Influence on Village Life in Deccan Maharashtra, India, 1942-82, CSSEAS

17. Cities and International Devlopment

Prof. Hemalata C. Dandekar

Univ. of Michigan, Department of Urban Planning

This course will provide students with a comparative and conceptual understanding of the physical and socio-economic-cultural structure of cities around the world. Cities such as Bombay, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Lagos, London, Cairo, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Beijing, Delhi, Tokoyo, singapore, Hong Kong, Detroit Johannesburg, Calcutta and Toronto, have important parallels as well as differences in their historical evolution and in their present and emerging roles in the global order. These will be explored. Understanding cities is a task that involves comprehending in three of four dimensions. To facilitate this visual and audio visual material will be used in class to communicate the sights, sounds and textures of city favrics and city life. The changing historical role of cities and their regions cross culturally and cross nationally will be examined with a view to assessing the implications of these changes for todays integrated world.

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18. Planning for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries

Prof. Amirita Daniere

University of Toronto, Geography

                This course covers public policies, programs and projects that target the urban poor in developing countries--particularly through attempts to improve their incomes through direct income-generating activities or employment and through the provision of basic services.  It treats the experience with (1) small enterprises and the informal sector (2) cooperative and other forms of collective action for income generation and (3) nongovernment organizations and their role as "third-party government."  In addition, the course examines planning for infrastructure services which are critical to the lives of the urban poor including transport, water supply, solid waste disposal and sewerage with an emphasis on the planning process and decision points that are important to planned objectives.

Text:  Chickering and Salahdine, The Silent Revolution

 

19. Regional Development and the Global Economy

Prof. Sabina Deitrick

University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

                This seminar focuses on two major themes in regional development: How the reorganization of industrial production affects regional development, and what policies are or can be developed to respond to these changes.  We try to capture many of the changes under the rubric globalization:  globalization of capital, labor, finance, production, communications, and so on.  While the term may be difficult to define, change and uncertainty underlie most interpretations of it.  Important for this course is the role of place --  where changes occurs and why.  These changes impose new constraints on the limits of regional planning, yet may offer new policy opportunities.  How these two phenomenon intersect -- globalization and the importance of place -- will be the major focus of the course.

Text:  Castells, The Informational City:  Information Technology, Economic Restructuring and the Urban-Regional Process

          Sayer and Walker, The New Social Economy:  Reworking the Division of Labor

 

20. Urban Development Processes

Prof. Gene Desfor

York University, Environmental Studies

                The course focuses on three approaches to urbanization.  Initially, the Urban Ecology approach is studied as the basis for an investigation of human behavior in industrialized cities in North America during the early decades of the twentieth century.  The Neo-classical Economic approach explicitly considers distance and space in its theory of growth, and the notion of land rent and the 'highest and best use' being central concepts. The Political-Economy approach uses a critical analysis and introduces notions of social justice and relationships between economic and political theory.  As part of this approach, literature of the French Regulation school is examined.

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21. Theory of International Development

Prof. Gene Desfor

York University, Environmental Studies

                Studies of theories of development, underdevelopment and mal development in Third World Countries, with stress on the social, economic, political, ideological and ecological bases for development approaches.  The seminar course aims to provide a historical overview of development theory including thinking on environment and development and on global development.  It should enable students to understand major concepts in the literature, the continuing debates, some Third World perspectives on development, and provide some tools of critical evaluation.

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22. Project Planning in Developing Countries

Prof. Petra Doan

Florida State University, Urban and Regional Planning

                This course will focus on the provision of "development assistance" with a major focus on the uses and abuses of development projects. Development projects have been the traditional "cutting edge" of development assistance, however some practitioners have questioned their effectiveness in stimulating development.  Although many national and international donors still use the traditional project-oriented approach to development, other agencies have moved towards a broader focus on policy changes intended to improve the "climate" for development activities as well as private sector development.  The primary object of this course is to enable students to work within these systems as well as critique the flaws and inadequacies of this form of development assistance.  This course will use the project cycle as a reference point, including:  problem identification and basic needs assessments, design of alternative strategies, feasibility studies, selection of the most appropriate activities, implementation, and evaluation of results.  The course will explore blueprint versus process-oriented approaches to project design and implementation with specific reference to participation of beneficiaries in various stages.  This course will also examine the role of development projects in different donor assistance strategies including:  U.S.A.I.D., the World Bank, United Nations agencies, and a variety of private voluntary (PVO) and non-governmental (NGO) organizations.  Reader

23. Strategies for Urban and Regional Development in Less Developed Areas

Prof. Petra Doan

Florida State University, Urban and Regional Planning

                This course provides an overview of development policies concerned with the spatial location of people and economic activities.  Most development efforts focus on questions of how to distribute which resources, without considering the essential question of where to make the investments and to whom to distribute them.  The course will focus explicitly on the spatial dimensions of development strategies and will explore the dynamic relationship between urbanization, spatial structure, and regional development.  This course is designed to encourage students to develop an ability to analyze existing spatial policy, critique the social and economic implications of those policies, and develop alternative strategies for attaining development strategies. Reader

 

24. Infrastructure and Housing Issues in Developing Countries

Prof. Petra Doan

Florida State University, Urban and Regional Planning

                This course will explore a variety of issues related to the management of urban areas in the Third World.  The rapid growth of cities and towns in developing nations has created a spiraling demand for shelter which has strained the current capacity of local and municipal governments to meet the basic human needs of their residents.  The course will examine issues related to the provision of adequate shelter, which is defined as the package of housing, infrastructure, and services needed for production and reproduction in an urban area.  Existing facilities are over-burdened and must be upgraded or replaced, but budgetary constraints severely limit the range of alternatives.  The course will emphasize unique problems of housing and shelter provisions in LDCs including:  the growth of unplanned areas (squatter areas), sites and services, and self-help housing strategies.  In addition the course will examine several infrastructure sectors including:  water, sanitation, and solid waste.

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25. International Political Economy and Urban Policy on the Pacific Rim

(PLAN 633) Mike Douglass

University of Hawai at Manoa Department of Urban & Regional Planning

            The course begins by reviewing theories on contemporary processes of international economic integration and sub-national change and spatial restructuring.  Attention is given to three major dimensions of this relationship: (1) new forms of industrial organization and recent changes in the industrial location strategies of transnational enterprises; (2) new patterns of urban and regional development; and (30 the role of the (local) state and social forces in maintaining and contesting the economic and social parameters of local developmemnt. The reaminder of the course assessses emerging patterns of urbanization and local economic and social essues in the U.S., Japan, East and Southeast Asia. The course concludes by summarizing the ramifications of the internationalization of local development for urban and regional planning in the coming years.

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27. International Comparative Planning

Prof. Salah El-Shakhs

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy

                New Cairo is a project for a parallel cit as major expansion of the Greater Cairo urban area.  Like New Bombay, it provides a good context for a realistic discussion of the typical problems, issues, policy choices, and planning processes in developing countries.  The seminar will start with a discussion of planning types and a survey of population (issues, growth, policy and development); comparative urbanization and counter-urbanization processes: in developed and less developed countries; and the nature of migration processes and their impacts on urban systems and urban centers.  The dicussion then moves into the nature and structure of the resulting settlement systems and mega cities in different world regions including the Middle East, and in the Greater Cairo region in particular.

Text:  Unchs, An Urbanizing World

           R. Fuchs et al., Mega-City Growth and the Future

 

27. Seminar on Global Cities

Prof. Susan Fainstein & Prof. Hooshang Amirahmadi

Rutgers State University, Urban Planning and Policy Development

                "Think globally, act locally" has been a slogan of progressive politics for decades.  In this course we seek to identify the elements of the global city and the global forces that act upon the urban areas.  We examine the range of local responses, the extent of local autonomy, and the social impacts of globalization.  Finally we analyze the role of public policy in confronting global forces.  Although we particularly focus on global cities, we consider the effects on all cities of forming part of a global network.

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28. Spatial and Fiscal Relationships of Communities

Dr. Marshall Feldman

University of Rhode Island, Community Planning and Area Development               This seminar introduces you to urbanization as an historical social process intimately related to broad social structures and relations.  It covers both classical and contemporary urban theory dealing with how the urban process pressures, constraints, and enables planning and with planning's role in the urban process.  The goal then is for you to develop an introductory, yet fairly comprehensive, understanding of the social science literature on urbanization.  This background will enable you to (1) evaluate policies designed to influence urbanization, (2) to understand better the contest in which contemporary planning takes place, and (3) to learn more about and to deal with problems of urbanization on your own.

Text:  Knox, Urbanization

          Knox and Agnew, The Geography of the World Economy

 

29. Designing the Information Society of the Next Millennium

Prof. Gerard Fischer  et al.

University of Colorado, Computer Science

                What will the information society of the next millennium be like, and how will individuals and organizations behave?  While it is clear that the future will be different from the past, at the preset there is really no consensus as to how technological innovation in information and communications will affect the shape of our society in the next millennium. The pursuit ofthese concerns is the object of the course.  Focusing on the concepts of learning and design and their integration with technological innovations, the course will frame and seek resolution to questions such as:  What will the physical and information spaces defining communities be like?  Can we design them?  What role can education play in their design? How should we view learning and its role in the design and evolution of both technological change and societal outcomes?  The course will investigate themes such as:  design in physical spaces (e.g., cities) and in informational spaces (software) and the relationship between them: (virtual) communities of practice; and it will explore fundamental concepts such as: evolution, design and sustainability, descriptive and prescriptive elements in design, and the role of breakdowns and symmetry of ignorance.

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30. Rural Planning

Prof. Bill Found

York University, Environmental Studies

                This  course concerns a broad range of approaches to rural land-use planning, but concentrates on Integrated Rural Development, Participatory Rural Appraisal, and Environmental Management.  Differences in rural planning in Industrialized countries and the Developing World will be emphasized.  Although a relevant introductory background will be useful, the course will review the whole field of rural planning, using case studies from a number of countries.

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31. Rural Planning and Development Theory

Prof. Tony Fuller and Prof. David Douglas

University of Guelph, University School of Rural Planning and Development

                The course examines basic concepts, theories, and perspectives in rural planning and development. The basic concepts of "rural", "planning", and "development" are examined.  Theories of what constitutes development and theories of how to plan for change and intervention are examined.  Each of the theories selected are examined in terms of their basic argument and assumptions, and their validity and implications for rural planning and development.  Linkages between planning and development theories are examined and the implications for professional practice explored.  To assist in linking theory to practice, specific cases of planning and development, both Canadian and international, are examined to identify their theoretical basis and to critique them from alternative theoretical perspectives. 

 

32. Communities and Regional Development

Prof. Michael Hibbard

University of Oregon, Planning, Public Policy and Management

                This course examines the economic, social-cultural, and political forces that shape the internal structure of regions:  core cities, suburbs, and rural hinterlands.  We will be especially concerned with the range of forces--from the global to the local scale--that affect the sustainable development of regions and their communities.  Taking small towns and rural communities as our primary focus, and assuming that the geographic community (urban neighborhood, small town, etc.) is a basic unit of social organization, we will review a variety of approaches to regional planning--from national regional planning to river basins and watersheds. The emphasis will be on the U.S. but we will also look at examples from several other countries around the Pacific.

Text:  Hibbard, Frameworks for Sustainable Forests and Communities

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33. Development Planning in the Third World

Dr. David A. Johnson

University of Tennessee, School of Planning

 

34. Politics and Planning

Prof Roger Keil

York University, Environmental Studies

                The course consists of two aspects.  One aspect is a systematic review of relevant theoretical approaches to local politics and urban planning.  While Canadian urban planning and politics will be an important focus, the course will introduce major theoretical concepts of planning and politics developed in Europe and North America.  Their significance in the Canadian context will be discussed.  The second aspect of the course in the practical aspect of planning and politics.  Using the Toronto region as the case, the role of politics in the definition and resolution of major planning-related issues is examined.  The aim is to identify the assumptions, the methods, the organizational forms, the behaviors of parties involved, and the processes that determined the public outcome of these issues.  When possible and appropriate, politicians, planners, journalists and community activists will be brought in to discuss pertinent issues with the class.

 

35. Environmental Politics

Prof. Roger Keil

York University, Environmental Studies

                A comprehensive understanding of politics and its relationship to environmental sustainability in both micro settings and the macro setting of Ontario.  This course will discuss theoretical, ideological and political perspectives and their implications for environmental politics and policy making.  The main interest of the course will be to develop a framework for understanding the historical significance of environmental politics in modernization processes and the implications of ecological-social thought for political theory and practice in an era of global restructuring.  Particular attention will be given to environmental issues pertinent to spatial (community, urban, regional, global) restructuring.  Although the course has a global approach, study of the Canadian dimension of the environmental problematic will be encouraged. Reader

 

36. Urban Design in Asia and the Pacific

Prof. Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Urban and Regional Planning

                This course discusses urban and architectural design for individual, societal and state functions, social behavior in urban space, concepts in the European/American and the variant Pacific Asian traditions. Urban design is the interface between urban planning and architecture. Generally, planners regard it as urban physical planning, whereas architects consider it as large-scale architecture.  The essence of urban design is threefold: (a) human behavior in and interaction with space, (b) spatial design for collective/social activities, and (c) space as a symbolic entity and artistic production.  This course addresses these specific aspects of urban spatial organization theoretically and empirically. Reader

 

37. Industrialization and Development Planning in Asia and the Pacific:  East Asian Economies

Prof. Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Urban and Regional Planning

                This course examines the developmental theories and issues which guide investigation in developing economies, especially those of East Asia. In Asian Newly Industrializing Economies (Asian NIEs)- Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, economic growth is essential for the improvement in the standard of living and structural transformation.  Industrialization and post-industrialization (informationization) are the mechanisms to attain economic and social development.  The historical economic and institutional conditions prescribe the specific mode of industrialization o be adopted, and in turn, industrialization produces particular economic and social phenomena.  Although the diverse cultural contexts and various industrialization modes cause different responses, there are two common phenomena:  urbanization, the transformation of a rural society into an industrialized society, and internationalization through export/import, trade and exchanges.  Development, urbanization and internalization are therefore interdependent and linked in a cause-effect relationship in the Asian NIEs growth process.

Text:

Berger, Peter L. and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (eds) (1993) In Search of an East Asian Development Model. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Chan, Steven (1990) East Asian Dynamism. Boulder: Westview Press.

Meire, Gerald M. (ed) (1989) Leading Issuse in Economic Development (5th ed) New York: Oxford University Press.

 

38. Society and Politics in China

Prof. Reginald Yin-Wan Kwok

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Political Science

                This is an interdisciplinary review and analysis of the social and political issues in contemporary China, the interchange between state and society in national policies, the relationship between cultural tradition and technological modernization in the socialist transformation process. This course examines the main social and political questions in contemporary China, as it has been undergoing drastic structural changes -- from state socialism to market socialism.  The topics discusses in reference to China's specific socialist development and market reform, in the socialist transformation processes.  The context of the focused examination of these themes is China's economic and institutional setting, its population movement and change, its effort to modernize and restructure the agricultural and industrial sector, and its international relations. Text:  Brugger and Reglar, Politics, Economy and Society in Contemporary China; Dreyer, China's Political System:  Modernization and Tradition

 

39. Contemporary China: Industrialization and Reform

Prof. Reginald Yin-Wan Kwok & K. Zhou

University of Hawaii at Monoa, Political Science

                This course is a multi-disciplinary review of industrialization process in contemporary China, the context and issues related to industrialization, the policy objectives and effectiveness in recent Economic Reform.  The course surveys and reviews various topics of Chinese industrialization in relationship to the relevant development theories. This course explores policy and planning issues in the historical, cultural and institutional setting as a case study of East Asian modernization. This course reviews the dynamics and evolution of agriculture-industry transfer - the rural urban transition, and the interaction between state planning and market regulation.

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40. International Development and Social Change

Prof. Linda Lacey

University of North Carolina, City and Regional Planning

                The goal of this seminar is to investigate the relationship between international development and social change.  The first section of the course explores the meaning of development from the perspective of economists, sociologists, political scientists and environmentalists.  It also examines the role that population distribution plays in the development process.  The next two sections explore the relationship between development and social change.  We focus on two key aspects of social change--empowerment and social power.  We examine these concepts through the eyes of planners, psychologists, political scientists, sociologists, environmentalists and social change agents.

Text:  Friedmann, John, Empowerment:  The Politics of Alternative Development

 

41. Theory and Practice of Project Planning in the Third World

Prof. Michael Leaf

University of British Columbia, School of Community and Regional Planning

                This course is intended to introduce students to issues - theoretical and practical - which have direct impacts upon project planning and program design in the Third World.  Recognizing that there is a broad array of forms of political and social organization throughout the developing countries of the world, students will be encouraged to challenge the assumptions which in so many instances have come to be accepted as generalized truths regarding Third World cities and societies.  Topics to be covered in readings and discussion will draw upon a wide rage of subjects and materials, in order to provide a basis for analyzing the "actors and factors" which influence planning in developing countries.  These include the following: theories of development and their implication at urban and neighborhood levels; the role of the state and the function of bureaucracies in project planning; how local political and social contexts affect planning practice and project design; the role of the planner in different social and political contexts; the influence of foreign agencies, foreign planning models and foreign consultants on policy and planning in the Third World; innovative strategies in project planning: the role of non-governmental and community based organizations; and anticipating and evaluating social and environmental impacts of urban projects.

 

42. Gender and Development

Dr. Rebecca Miles-Doan

Florida State University, Urban and Regional Planning

                This seminar is intended to give students an understanding of the differential effects of planned and unplanned development on women and men under differing gender systems, the strategies that have been pursued to address short-term and long-term gender needs, and ways to create gender-responsive institutions, policies, and programs. This course introduces students to theories and methods of gender analysis and planning, and applied them through case studies, homework assignments and class exercises.  It covers such topics as the gender implication of changing definitions of development and the globalization of the economy; gender and structural adjustment; gender and population, housing and employment, and the environment.

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43. Population and Development Planning

Dr. Rebecca Miles-Doan

Florida State University, Urban and Regional Planning

                The seminar begins with a review of the "population problem" and the various development paradigms that have helped shape responses to it. It then focuses in on three major substantive areas:  population, reproductive rights and gender equity, each organized around a set of questions.  What are the major theories defining the problem area and its solutions?  What are their main assumptions?  What evidence do they cite in support of their claims?  Who have been the main actors and what have been the main implementation strategies in this problem area?  What gaps in knowledge and/or practice still remain?

Text:  Arizpe, L, Stone, P and Major, D, Population and the Environment: Rethinking the debate

          Cassen, Robert, Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions

          Hartmann, Betsy, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs:  The Global Politics of Population Control

 

44. Introduction to Development Planning

Prof.  Joshua Muskin

Florida State University, Urban and Regional Planning

“Introduction to Development Planning” is designed to provide students interested in the problems, goals and strategies associated with improving social and economic welfare worldwide, from the local to the global level, with a firm foundation in the theory, experience and related tools of development. The different definitions of “development” will constitute a major target of inquiry and critique, as well as the different strategies by which governments and international donors have attempted over the past several decades to “raise” the level of the so-called “Third World” to that of the modernized, industrialized countries. Of particular concern will be the question, “How do you do development?”  (It is, after all, a planning course)...

TEXT:

Black, Jan Knippers (1991) Development in theory and practice: bridging the gap  Boulder, Colo. Westview Press.

Koberg, Don and Jim Bagnall (1991) The all new universal traveler: a soft-systems guide to creativity, problem-solving, and the process of reaching goals. Menlo Park, Calif.: Crisp Publications, Inc.

Sachs, Wolfgang (ed.) (1992)  The Development dictionary : a guide to knowledge as power.

Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books.

Schumacher, E.F. (1973) Small is Beautiful. NY: Harper and Row Publishers.

UNDP (1995) Human Development Report--1995.  NY: Oxford University Press.

 

45. Sustainable Environments: Local to Global Perspectives

J. Nystuen

University of Michigan, Urban Planning

Course organized under the headings: Biosphere, Food Needs and Shortages, Sustainable Agriculture, Environmental Values, Environmental Justice, and Managing Sustainable Environments

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46. Global Justice and the Environment

Prof. Peter Penz

York University, Environmental Studies

                Introduction to socio-environmental ethics in general and, in particular, to social justice, as applied to issues of global development, the global environment, and international relations; theoretical schools of thought and particular public controversies are covered.

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47. Urban World System

Keith Pezzoli

University of California, San Diego,  Urban Studies and Planning Program

USP2 examines processes of urban and regional development in a global context.  Lectures, films and readings draw attention to biophysical as well as socio-political and economic concerns.  The course focuses on a set of interrelated themes that will help students gain insight into: (1) the new global economy and questions concerning urban-ecological sustainability, (2) the contemporary division of labor among cities--including the rise of the global assembly line and world cities, (3) third world industrialization and patterns of human settlements development, and (4) the new regionalism and the contemporary transformation of cities in the U.S. and abroad.  Overall, USP2 is about developing a solid theoretical and holistic perspective of urbanization--a perspective that emphasizes how the world's economy and the earth's ecology are increasingly interdependent.  The course aims to shed light on the meaning--and contradictions--of the phrase "think globally, act locally."

Text:

Keith Pezzoli (1998) Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City. Cambridge: MIT Press.

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48. Property Rights Under Transition

Prof. Karen Polenske

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Urban Studies and Planning

                Policy makers are now facing unprecedented challenges to understand the relationship between political and economic reform and rapidly changing property relations.  One of these challenges is to disperse state-owned properties to private individuals through the establishment of private property rights.  A strategy frequently resorted to is "privatization," which is supposed to improve the efficiency of public services and enterprises that were previously operated by the public sector.  To facilitate our understanding of the various types o transformations occurring, we reexamine how property rights can be delineated, assigned, administered, and enforced.  The purpose of the seminar is to discuss these issues from the economic, institutional, and legal perspectives.  Among the aspects we will emphasize are: (1) institutional and governance structures, (2) power and control mechanisms, (3) distributive consequences of certain property-rights arrangements, and (4) problems of incomplete contracts as presented in theory and practice.  We will illustrate these concepts, focusing mainly on property-rights issues related to land and natural resources.

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49. Comparative Issues in Urban Planning

Dr. Kami Pothukuchi

University of Wisconsin, Urban and Regional Planning

                This course is designed to facilitate: (1) a basic understanding of the theory underlying planning interventions to bring about development and change, (2) an exploration of current issues and debates on urbanization and the development of a new form of cities--world cities, and their special contributions and problems, (3) an understanding of urban contexts, management, and planning in a comparative perspective in the context of worldwide economic and political change, (4) a brief examination of the effects of the global economy on the cities of rich and poor countries alike and urban and national responses, (5) a broader understanding of particular urban issues such as shelter and human settlements; environment, technology, and environment; and the potential for and reality of grassroots mobilization given sweeping changes, (6) a look at multinational and international organizations and their roles and (7) an exploration of the future of the city and alternative models of development.

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50. Seminar on Trends and Issues in Public Planning

Dr. Kami Pothukuchi

University of Wisconsin, Urban and Regional Planning

                This course is designed to: (1) provide a feminist perspective on the planning process and on specific issues related to planning and urban development policy, (2) explore the links between gender inequality and other social dimensions such as class, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, and national origin, and the political implications of these links--including the resources they provide, (3) discuss women's specific needs related to urban planning and policy, (4) discuss the strengths and limitations of various strategies to achieve gender-sensitive planning and policy and (5) review and evaluate feminist research on issues related to urban planning and policy in the US and around the world.

Text:  Little, J. Gender, Planning and the Policy Process

 

51. Planning for Human Settlements in Developing Countries

Dr. Kami Pothukuchi

University of Wisconsin, Urban and Regional Planning

                This course will explore human settlement planning in the context of rapid urbanization I Third World countries.  It will examine settlement planning experiences in the historical context of urbanization and development policies in the Third World.  Through comparative examples, this course will study the roles of governments at different levels, the private sector, international and multilateral organizations, and local communities and non-governmental organizations in various issues relevant to human settlement planning.  Special emphasis will be given to planning for traditionally marginalized low-income and ethnic-minority groups and women.

Text:  Akhtar A Badshah, Our Urban Future

 

52. Bioregional Planning Workshop

Profs. Barbara Rahder and Greg Allen

York University, Environmental Studies

                The objective of this workshop is to discover practical, ecologically viable, and socially equitable ways of planning for a diversity of communities within the bioregion of the Greater Toronto Area. Some key themes of this course are: the appropriate role of 'nature' in planning and decision-making; the fragmentation of political and planning jurisdiction into regional and local municipalities; the influence of Provincial government policies on planning and development within the bioregion, including the potential influence of the revised Ontario Planning Act; the role of the real estate and development industries in shaping development patterns and forms; and the potential for local communities to influence the purpose, scope and process of planning within the Greater Toronto Area.

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53. Planning for Sustainable Development

Prof. Omar Razzazz & Prof. Vicki Norberg-Bohm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Urban Studies and Planning

                "Sustainability" is by now a buzzword used by scientists, social scientists, community activists and politicians.  Is there agreement on what it means?  Do we know how to achieve it?  Do we know how to "measure" successes and failures towards achieving it?  These questions have generated considerable intellectual contributions and policy innovations, but sustainable development remains an elusive goal to work towards rather than an objective stage to reach.  Our goal in this class is to provide tools and ideas that will be useful for people who want to help lead the journey toward sustainable development.

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54. The Ecological Context of Planning

Prof. William E. Rees

University of British Columbia, School of Community and Regional Planning

                This course is designed to provide planning students with a sustainability-oriented bioecological perspective on humankind and modern society.  The overall objectives are to: (1) familiarize planners with humankind's role in, and impact on, the natural "environment" as our species becomes an increasingly dominant component of all global ecosystems; (2) develop a general framework for the application of ecosystems theory and principles to ecological planning and management for sustainable development at all spatial scales.  Both the potential of ecosystems as resource systems and their behavior in response to exploitation are examined.  The course creates an explicitly global perspective for consideration of regional growth and development issues.

 

55. Seminar on Eco-Economic Systems

Prof. William E. Rees

University of British Columbia, School of Community and Regional Planning

                This course is intended to provide a systematic exploration of the physical relationship between the global economy and the biosphere as reflected by the emerging discipline of ecological economics.  The fundamental premise is that the economy is a sub-system of the ecosphere and dependent on the rest of the ecosphere for both material and process resources, including waste assimilation.  In this light, students will examine the assumptions and determinants of economic growth and how well dominant models for environmental planning and international development reflect our current understanding of ecosystem properties and behavior.  We then consider the socioeconomic policy implications of biophysical limits as expressed through such ecological economic concepts as the constant capital stocks condition for sustainability (weak and strong versions), "Hicksian" income, inter-and intra-generational equity, ecological footprint analysis, regional and global ecological deficits, and the "facto-10" economy.

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56. Planning Institutions and Processes in Developing Countries

Prof. Bish Sanyal and M. Moore

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Urban Studies and Planning

                We will focus the seminar discussion of various institutional context within which Development Planners operate, and discuss the nature of institutional processes in which they participate to plan, implement and evaluate policies, programs and projects.  The focus on the institutional context is deliberate because it leads well to the discussion of various planning roles, ranging from that of national planners confronted with the problems of squatter housing and lack of municipal revenues at the local level.  Also, an emphasis on institutions brings to the fore the issue of institutional change which is, increasingly, acknowledged to be a critical factor--perhaps more important than either capital, or technology--for economic growth and social development.  And finally, institutional analysis is conducive to intellectual inquiry into broader theoretical questions regarding the appropriate role of the state in socio-economic development.  Why should the state be involved in planning?  What form of state involvement is important for development?  What are the limits of state action?  What guides Planners' role in this process?

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57. Economics, Ecology and Globalization:  A  North-South Perspective

Prof. Jeremy Seabrook, Martin Khor and Wolfgang Sachs

Schumacher College

                The objectives of this course is to: (1) understand how the crisis of nature exacerbates the crisis of justice and vice versa, (2) trace the history, impulses and effects of globalization from colonialism to Uraguay Round and after, (3)  examine the role of institutions such as transnational corporations, the World Bank, World Trade Organizations and United Nations in the globalization process, (4) give examples and explanations of environmental problems and people's movements in ecology and development in the South, (5) examine the clash of interests and attitudes at the core of the conceptual confusion engendered by the term "sustainable development" and (6) survey the political conflicts which emerge after the global impasse of development.

 

58. Land & Housing in Latin America

Prof. William Siembieda

University of New Mexico, Community & Regional Planning

                Latin America is highly urbanized and expected to become more so over the next twenty years.  Land for urbanization and housing to settle the growing population are policy issues facing all Latin American countries.  This course is a survey and analysis of state supported housing and land use systems in Latin America.  The course includes analysis of various schemes for housing the working class, the middle class, and the poor attempted since WWII.  Examples from Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Chile, Central America and Cuba.

Text:  Jones and Ward, Methodology for Land and Housing Market Analysis

 

59. Community Field Research, Theory and Analysis

Prof.  Michael P. Smith

University of California, Davis, Human and Community Development

                This course focuses on the conduct of research at the community level.  We will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of alternative theories of community change as guides for understanding the growth and decline of communities and regions in contemporary California.  We will gain exposure to various methods for conducting research at the community level including:  Structural analysis, elite interviewing, ethnographic research, and comparative community studies.  We will consider the special problem of drawing appropriate boundaries for local community studies in the contemporary context of globalizing trends in economy, politics, and culture.

Text:  Smith and Feagin, The Bubbling Cauldron:  Ethnicity and the Urban Crisis

          Smith, Michael Peter, Marginal Spaces

          Andranovich and Riposa, Doing Urban Research

 

60. The Political Economy of Urban and Regional Development

Prof. Michael P. Smith

University of California, Davis, Human and Community Development

                Both the ongoing restructuring of the global political economy and

the rapidly changing contours of policy-making by all levels of the state have had significant impacts on the character and quality of everyday life at the level of local communities.  Local actions, in turn, are constitutive elements in processes of urban transformation that shape as well as reflect the global flows of capital and labor and the character of state policies.  This seminar focuses on selected dimensions of this global and local interplay in urban restructuring.  Topics selected for critical discussion include: (a) the differential mediation of global political and economic restructuring and state policy making by local political coalitions contesting the discourse of "growth," (b) the conditions under which grassroots forms of local political mobilization can form political blocks capable of the social production of new urban policies and practices rather than merely defending existing cultural or economic uses of social space; (c) the emergence of new forms of grassroots agency made possible by the cultural transformation of cities resulting from transitional migration and the globalization of political-economic and cultural flows; and (d) the possibilities for embedding these political-economic and socio-cultural questions in a comparative historical analysis of urban and regional

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61. Theories of Regional Economic Development

Prof. Michael Storper

University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Policy and Social Research

                The class will give students the basic toolkit needed to think about such issues as:  why industries locate where they do; why there are tendencies toward geographical concentration and dispersion of economic activity; the reasons why economic activity concentrates in cities and metropolitan areas; why it leaves those areas; how existing trends toward globalization are affecting these processes; whether regions "win" or "lose" when they come into contact with other regions or nations; whether regions tend to become more similar or remain different in the process of economic development.  Students will learn the basic models for explaining these processes.  This course is thus the first step in being able to think about urban and regional economic development coherently, and will enable students to go on to more specialized courses.

Text:  Storper and Walker, The Capitalist Imperative:  Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth.

 

62. International Environmental Negotiation

Prof. Lawrence Susskind & Prof. William Moomaw

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Urban Studies and Planning

                This course will discuss the International Environmental Treaty-making System and critique the currently used U.N.-sponsored Convention-Protocol Approach to Treaty-making.  Some key themes that will be brought up are: Population and Poverty; Sustainable Development, Technology Assessment and Transfer; and the Role of International Business

Interests.

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63. Urban Sector and Project Planning for Developing Countries

Prof. Burkhard von Rabenau

Ohio State University, City and Regional Planning

                The purpose of the course is (1) to provide students with a working knowledge of the issues and methods involved in urban sector planning in developing countries, and (2) to acquaint students with methods of project planning, particularly as they relate to linking sector goals to project objectives.  The lectures describe urban housing and service problems with a focus on low income households; they trace the sources of the problems as related to income, population growth, lack of finance, and the cost of land and infrastructure; they analyze typical but often futile government policies designed to solve the housing problem through rent control, public housing provision, regulation, and price controls; and they examine technological and design solutions including Western style prefabrication, industrialized building and alternative technologies adapted to local

resources and needs.

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64. City Planning in the Contemporary World

Prof. Burkhard von Rabenau

Ohio State University, City and Regional Planning

                The course looks at these urban problems with focus on housing.  It is based on the premise that all cities must deliver a common set of services to satisfy their citizens' basic needs; many of them encounter similar problems and issues in attempting to deliver these services; and despite all their differences, there by and large is a common set of instruments by which cities can address their planning problems.  In particular, this course will: (1) introduce students to the urban system as related to the delivery of basic housing needs, (2) describe, compare and classify the main problems encountered in the delivery of shelter and services and (3) acquaint students with the main instruments by which governments and their planners can hope to improve basic need delivery.

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65. Developing Countries Studio

Prof. Burkhard von Rabenau

Ohio State University, City and Regional Planning

                The purpose of this course is to expose students to the full analytical and design demands of an actual, 'real world' planning problem. The problem will be sufficiently complex to require students to work in groups and to be involved in all steps of the planning process, including the definition of the problem, data collection, choice of analytical method, development of design alternatives, design decisions, and design of an implementation process.  The term 'design' is used here in its generic form.  While it may refer to physical design it more often refers to other aspects of project design such as project finance, administration, cost recovery, or implementation.

 

66. New Social Movements

Prof G. Wekerle

York University, Environmental Studies

                This course examines new social movements that have arisen in

response to the crisis of industrial culture, economic restructuring, shifting political formations, and ecological disasters.  The course focuses on models of social transformation, collective action and, politics and the ways in which new social movements shape consciousness and open new areas of political discourse.  Attention will be directed to problems of movement mobilization, organization and issue formation.  The course focuses on current theories of social movements, contested issues, and case studies of social movements in action.  These will be drawn from a cross-section of social movement organizations.

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67. Social Policy and Planning

Prof. Gerda R. Wekerie

York University, Environmental Studies

                This course explores contemporary shifts and challenges in social policy with particular attention to the restructuring of the Canadian welfare state and implication for social planning.  Attention is directed to the development of critical frameworks through the examination of theories of the welfare state and current debates.  There is a focus on the importance of discourse in defining problems and shaping solutions. Changing views of social citizenship and civil society will also be addressed.  As social planning involves the translation of social objectives into practices and programs, attention will be direct to different types of social planning and to selected case studies of social planning practice.  These include integrated planning and the relation of social development and land use planning; neotraditional planning, and sustainable communities.  The role of localized citizen activism in the local state will also be examined.

Text:  Pulkingham and Ternowetsky, Remaking Canadian Social policy:  Social Security in the Late 1990s

 

68. International Planning

Dr. Weiping Wu

Virginia Commonwealth University, Urban Studies and Planning

                Building on the central themes of globalization and learning from best practices, this course will offer a comparative analysis of planning practices around the world.  It will cover such topics as national urban development policies, regional development planning, urban economic development, metropolitan land planning, sustainable urban development, urban transportation, and urban infrastructure and shelter delivery.

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69. Global Dimensions of Urban and Regional Planning

Prof. Ruth Ammerman Yabes

Arizona State University, Planning and Landscape Architecture

                This course will introduce students to the global dimensions of the theory and practice of urban and regional planning from several theoretical and analytical perspectives (conservative, liberal, radical).  The course has been divided into five parts.  The first section examines the interface between development, urbanization and the globalization of the world economy.  The second section of the course considers specific strategies and policies of urban and regional development including housing, urban services and transport, environment, and employment.  The third section focuses on theoretical issues of regions and regionalism.  The fourth section of the course looks at the particular case of U.S.-Mexico border towns through the cases of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora, and the role of maquiladoras in the two cities.  The last section examines political responses and planning policies, to synthesize and critically analyze the broad range of perspectives and experience in the "third world" urban and regional development.

Text:  Isbister,  Promises not Kept:  The Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World

          Kasarda and Parnell, Third World Cities:  Problems, Policies and Prospects