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.
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Instructor |
Course title |
Institutional affiliation |
| 1. |
International Rural Development
Planning (IDRP): Principles and Practices |
U. of Guelph |
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| 2. |
Afshar, F.; Douglas, D. |
The Rural Settlement:
Planning, Resourcing, Management |
U. of Guelph |
| 3. |
Information Management
for Economic Development Planning |
Ball State |
|
| 4. |
Global Restructuring,
Planning and Economic Policy |
Rutgers |
|
| 5. |
Industrialization, Development
and Policy Analysis |
MIT |
|
| 6. |
Sustainable Growth? |
U. of Colorado at Denver |
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| 7. |
International Urbanization
and Urban Planning |
U. of Minnesota |
|
| 8. |
Assaad, R. |
Development Planning
and Policy Analysis |
U. of Minnesota |
| 9. |
World Cities |
Florida State |
|
| 10. |
Critical Education and
Social Change |
York |
|
| 11. |
Urban and Regional Planning/Third
World Development |
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| 12. |
Global Environmental
Politics |
York |
|
| 13. |
Planning Issues in the
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands |
U. of Arizona |
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| 14. |
Co-operatives and Cooperation |
York |
|
| 15. |
Urban and Regional Theory |
U. of Michigan |
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| 16. |
Dandekar, H. |
Urban and Regional Planning
in Developing Countries |
U. of Michigan |
| 17. |
Dandekar, H. |
Cities and International
Development |
U. of Michigan |
| 18. |
Planning for the Urban
Poor in Developing Countries |
U. of Toronto. |
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| 19. |
Regional Development
and the Global Economy |
U. of Pittsburgh |
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| 20. |
Urban Development Processes |
York |
|
| 21. |
Desfor, G. |
Theory of International
Development |
York |
| 22. |
Project Planning in Developing
Countries |
Florida State |
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| 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. |
International Political
Economy and Urban Policy on the Pacific Rim |
U. of Hawaii at Manoa |
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| 26. |
International Comparative
Planning |
Rutgers |
|
| 27. |
Seminar on Global Cities |
Rutgers |
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| 28. |
Spatial and Fiscal Relationships
of Communities |
U. of Rhode Island |
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| 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. |
Rural Planning |
York |
|
| 31. |
Rural Planning and Development
Theory |
U. of Guelph |
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| 32. |
Communities and Regional
Development |
U. of Oregon |
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| 33. |
Development Planning
in the Third World |
U. of Tennessee, Knoxville |
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| 34. |
Politics and Planning |
York |
|
| 35. |
Kell, R. |
Environmental Politics |
York |
| 36. |
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. |
Contemporary China: Industrialization
and Reform |
U. of Hawaii at Manoa |
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| 40. |
International Development
and Social Change |
U. of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill |
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| 41. |
Theory and Practice of
Project Planning in the Third World |
U. of British Columbia |
|
| 42. |
Gender and Development |
Florida State |
|
| 43. |
Miles, R. |
Population and Development
Planning |
Florida State |
| 44. |
Introduction to Development
Planning |
Florida State |
|
| 45. |
Sustainable Environments:
Local to Global Perspectives |
U. of Michigan |
|
| 46. |
Global Justice and the
Environment |
York |
|
| 47. |
Urban World System |
U. of California, San
Diego |
|
| 48. |
Property Rights Under
Transition |
MIT |
|
| 49. |
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. |
Bioregional Planning
Workshop |
York |
|
| 53. |
Planning for Sustainable
Development |
MIT |
|
| 54. |
The Ecological Context
of Planning |
U. of British Columbia |
|
| 55. |
Rees, W. |
Seminar on Eco-Economic
Systems (Ecological Economics) |
U. of British Columbia
|
| 56. |
Planning Institutions
and Processes in Developing Countries |
MIT |
|
| 57. |
Economics, Ecology and
Globalization: A North-South Perspective |
Schumacher College |
|
| 58. |
Land and Housing in Latin
America |
U. of New Mexico |
|
| 59. |
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. |
Theories of Regional
Economic Development |
U. of California, Los
Angeles |
|
| 62. |
International Environmental
Negotiation |
MIT |
|
| 63. |
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. |
New Social Movements |
York |
|
| 67. |
Wekerle, G. |
Social Policy and Planning |
York |
| 68. |
International Planning |
Virginia Commonwealth
|
|
| 69. |
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
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
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
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.
Reader
5. Industrialization,
Development and Policy Analysis
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?
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
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
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
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.
Reader
11. Urban and Regional Planning/ Third World
Urban Development
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
12. Global Environmental
Politics
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.
Reader
13. Planning Issues in the
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
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.
14. Co-operatives and
Cooperation
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 a