UP 494

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Credit: 1 TO 6 hours.

Seminar on topics of current interest, as announced in the Schedule.

1 to 6 undergraduate hours. 1 to 6 graduate hours. May be repeated to a maximum of 16 hours.

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UP 494 class schedule data for spring 2016
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
63533	Lecture	AG	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	19 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall	Greenlee, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Shrinking Cities Section Info: This seminar examines urban shrinkage - a phenomenon typically associated with population loss, but also characterized by obsolescence, disinvestment, and abandonment. While some cities thrive and struggle to house the global urban majority, other cities face the stark reality of shrinkage, decline, and abandonment. What should planners be doing to envision and enact a viable future for our shrinking cities? This seminar will draw upon literature from Planning, Economics, Sociology, and other areas to discuss the meaning of urban decline as a social, economic, and psychological phenomenon. Throughout the semester, we will question how planners and plans have responded to urban decline, and we will critically assess the effectiveness of these responses. This advanced seminar is open to graduate students as well as upper-level undergraduates- while we will draw on urban planning concepts and theories, no prior coursework in planning is required for this seminar.
63654	Lecture	L1	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	223 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall	Sampaio, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Informal Settlements: Brazil Section Info: Subject: Informality in general, and urban informal development in particular, is a growing concern for policy concern for policy makers around the Globe. While in the Global North it is increasingly recognized as a tendency, in the Global South it is an undeniable reality of major proportions. Brazilian and Latin American scholarship are recognized for producing relevant knowledge about this problem, since it is the first region of the Global South to be urbanized. Taking advantage of that, this course will address the phenomenan of urban informality in Brazil from a planning perspective, It will present current theoretical discussions on planning scholarship, such as insurgent planning, right to the and spatial justice, using the empirical reality of Brazilian cities. It proposes a particular focus on informal settlements defined as "planned or incrementally formed subdivisions, whose residents have no legal claim on land, and/or whose urban pattern are not in compliance with planning regulations". Questions Addressed: How to understand the concept of informality? How much of the informal settlements development is due to the lack of options? What are the major problems of informality for the city in general? What Brazilian planners and policymakers do about urban informality?
53232	Lecture-Discussion	LIP	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	432 Armory	Salo, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Investigating Intl Sust Devt Section Info: This course will bring together faculty from Urban Planning, Anthropology, Engineering, and Community Health for an interdisciplinary examination of international sustainable development. The focus will be on a specific case: a proposed irrigation project in the highlands community of Lumbisi, Ecuador. Participants will have the opportunity to travel to Ecuador during Summer Term I. Please see the instructor for more information about the course and about possible (optional) summer research experiences connected with this course.
63535	Laboratory-Discussion	ME	1:30PM -2:50PM	MW	227 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall	Edwards, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Health - Place Workshop Section Info: This urban planning (UP) workshop will engage both undergraduate and graduate students in a community-driven health assessment planning process resulting in the development of a healthy cities plan. The focus will be to ensure that the health-related priorities of residents in the Peoria region are aligned with existing plans and to develop additional strategies and recommendations to ensure a healthier future for all residents. This is part of a larger project focused on the Peoria region and intended to bring researchers and students in design and planning in conversation with Illinois residents to produceapplicable proposals for the Peoria region's future and novel learning experiences for advanced students. Students will engage with residents and decision-makers in Peoria to develop plans and strategies to promote healthy neighborhoods. This course counts as a senior workshop requirement for Urban Planning majors.
56182	Lecture	N	1:00PM -1:50PM	W	ARR Temple Hoyne Buell Hall	Deal, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Neurus Research Seminar Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the Urban & Regional Planning department. Restricted to Urban Planning major(s). Not intended for students with Junior, Freshman, Sophomore, or Senior class standing.
63534	Lecture	RE	10:30AM -11:50AM	MW	223 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall	Allred, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Real Est Devel Fundamentals Section Info: This course will provide students an introduction to the fundamental concepts and techniques applied in the real estate development process, examining both the broader economic and social context in which real estate development is situated as well as how various professions interact within this context. Development creates the built environment, producing neighborhoods, and places of work and commerce, and shaping how we live. Choices we make about the locations and characteristics of development help determine the quality of life in and long-term viability of our cities. Tasked with helping communities and clients shape development outcomes to achieve their goals, planners need to understand the fundamentals of the development process and the motivations of various stakeholders involved in bringing a project to completion in order to make effective and feasible plans. Topics include development trends, stakeholder roles in the development process, the eight-stage model of real estate development, suitability analysis, mortgage basics and investment decision and valuation techniques like pro-formas, cash flow and time value of money calculations. Course assessments will include several case study assignments and a group project using an actual development site that will provide students with the chance to apply the concepts and techniques learned in the course.