Part I: Fundamentals: Land Use Planning, Regulation, and Growth Management
| Week 1: Introduction |
| 1 |
Course Introduction |
| Week 2: Project Introduction and Start-Up |
| 2 |
Community Planning Project Introduced |
| 3 |
Discussion of Client Project - Project Teams Formed |
| Week 3: Planning for Growth and Zoning Controls |
| 4 |
Land Use Planning and Regulation - An Overview |
| 5 |
Zoning Controls - The Basics |
| Week 4: Making a Plan: Where to Begin? |
| 6 |
Plan-Making at the Community Level |
| 7 |
Imaging Needham Center and its Streets |
| Week 5: Growth Management and Growth Rate Controls |
| 8 |
State and Regional Planning Mandates versus Home Rule |
| 9 |
The Growth Management System and Growth Rate Controls: Local and Regional Issues |
| Week 6: Visioning, Zoning Innovations |
| 10 |
Visioning |
| 11 |
Zoning Innovations |
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Part II: Emerging Issues, Trends, Methods and Approaches
| Week 7: New Urbanism and Transit-Oriented Development |
| 12 |
Neotraditional Planning, New Urbanism |
| 13 |
Transit-Oriented Development |
| Week 8: Community Design, Placemaking |
| 14 |
Community Design and Alternative Regulatory Approaches What's Applicable to the Needham Project? |
| 15 |
Project Workshop Day |
| Week 9: Sprawl and Smart Growth |
| 16 |
Sprawl and the Evolution of Suburbia |
| 17 |
Smart Growth |
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Part III: Other Topics and Techniques
| Week 10: Traffic Calming, Linking Land Use and Transportation |
| 18 |
Traffic Calming |
| 19 |
The Mobility Challenge for Planning: Linking Land Use
and Transportation |
| Week 11: Edge Cities |
| 20 |
Edge Cities |
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Part IV: Integration and Implementation
| Week 12: Using Incentives for Plan Implementation |
| 21 |
Project Workshop Day |
| 22 |
More on Incentive-Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing Affordability |
| Week 13: Managing Community Character: Emerging Issues and Strategies |
| 23 |
Project Workshop Day |
| Weeks 14 & 15: Final Project Preparation and Synthesis |
| 24 |
Project Workshop Day |
| 25 |
Project Team Discussions and Final Document Planning |
| 26 |
The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis |
| 27 |
No Class: Submission of Final Plan Reports |
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