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URBDP 200 Introduction to Urbanization: Planning and Designing Alternative Urban Futures (5) SSc
Introduces how cities work and explores alternative ways of planning and designing urban futures. Explores the economic, cultural, political, and social aspects of cities and how we might change them for the better. Also examines numerous case studies from the Global North and South.

URBDP 300 Introduction to Urban Planning (5) SSc
Principles and theories of urban structure and institutions. Concepts and logic of planning as a community process and a professional activity. Evolution of planning ideas in response to changing social, economic, and environmental conditions within the American political framework. Complementary nature of public and private responsibilities. Major procedures used by planners.

URBDP 370 Reading the City (5) A&H/SSc
Comprehending cities as reflection of individual reader and social/cultural context. Skills for analyzing everyday, visible evidence of the city. Topics include self-identity with place, city, image and perception, visual design analysis; and place as representation of culture. Extensive writing, multiple texts, collaborative work in groups and fieldwork.

URBDP 404 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (3)
Provides students with introductory practical knowledge of Geographical Information Systems and Science for current and future coursework in urban planning.

URBDP 405 The Urban Form (3) A&H
Elements, patterns, and evolution of urban form. The forces that shaped cities in history. Contemporary trends. Methods of urban morphological analysis as related to urban design and planning practices. Required for MUP graduate students.

URBDP 422 Urban and Regional Geospatial Analysis (5)
Principles of GIS applied to problems in urban design and planning, landscape architecture, and environmental and resource studies. Practical problem-solving approaches using contemporary desktop mapping packages and vector and raster GIS systems. Siting, environmental evaluation and inventories, and modeling. Prerequisite: either GEOG 317, GEOG 360, GEOG 461, GEOG 462, GEOG 465, FISH 452, or OCEAN 452. Offered: W.

URBDP 423 Introduction to Urban Design (3) SSc/A&H
Definitions and examples of urban design; heritage of urban design; theories of city building; the role of urban design in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. Offered: Sp.

URBDP 424 Site Planning: Issues and Techniques (3)
Introduction to site planning; how it is regulated; why it is important to know; and how to carry out its key tasks, including residential subdivision and mixed-use development layout; basic topographical and hydrological analysis and manipulation; roadways, parking and hierarchies of circulation, and site design detail. Offered: Sp.

URBDP 446 Practical Experience (4, max. 8)
Off-campus internship under academic supervision in situations useful to the education of planners, such as public/private planning and design offices, projects related to the environment, cross-cultural matters, and decision making. Assistance in identifying appropriate projects.

URBDP 450 Introduction to Land Use, Growth Management, and Environmental Planning (3)
Provides an understanding of contemporary land use issues (including sprawl, smart growth, new urbanism, transit-oriented development, and SA国际传媒's Growth Management Act) and examines their environmental impact and social welfare implications. Analyzes best-practice techniques of growth management.

URBDP 466 Infrastructure and Community Facilities (4)
Issues and methods associated with planning for parks, schools, drainage, sewerage, utilities, libraries, solid waste, and transportation. Covers their relationship to comprehensive plans, project permitting, and impact assessment. Financing, regulating, and relationships to social, environmental, and economic goals are discussed.

URBDP 467 Urban Planning Uses of Remote Sensing (3)
Using aerial photographs and satellite image data in urban planning. Urban change analysis, land-use and land cover classification, and environmental planning applications. Scale and resolution considerations. Development of proficiency through laboratory exercises and use of image-processing software.

URBDP 480 Planning as a Profession (1)
Provides students interested in the planning profession an opportunity to understand the different pathways and career choices within the profession. Introduces students to guest professionals in various planning careers and highlight key issues, skills used, and tips to entering the field. Focuses on professional practice rather than analytical methods or theory. Credit/no-credit only.

URBDP 498 Special Topics (1-9, max. 15)
Systematic study of specialized subject matter. Topics for each quarter vary, depending upon current interest and needs, and are announced in the preceding quarter.

URBDP 499 Special Projects (1-12, max. 12)
Independent/tutorial study for undergraduates. Individual reading, research, fieldwork, or other special project, outlined in advance, approved by, and under the direction of, the faculty adviser most appropriate for the project proposed.

URBDP 500 Survey of Urban Planning (4)
Concepts and logic of planning as a professional activity. Evolution of guiding ideas in relation to changing social, economic, and environmental conditions within the American political framework. Major procedures used by planners. Critical appraisal. Open to graduate students in urban design and planning and to graduate students in architecture seeking the urban design certificate.

URBDP 501 Comprehensive Planning and Implementation (4)
Reviews the comprehensive planning process as a part of managing metropolitan growth. Examines federal/state statutes affecting local government comprehensive plans. Includes local government land use regulations and reviews development process. Concentrates on tools to shape land use and development patterns and their effectiveness in creating outcomes specified in comprehensive plans. Offered: W.

URBDP 502 Tools for Sustainable Cities (4)
Examines specific tools used for planning sustainable cities, including hands-on learning, speakers, case studies, and site tours to enrich students' knowledge and experience. Prerequisite: CEP 200 or URBDP 300. Offered: W.

URBDP 504 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (3)
Provides students with introductory practical knowledge of Geographical Information Systems and Science for current and future coursework in urban planning. Course overlaps with: SEFS 520.

URBDP 505 The Urban Form (3)
Elements, patterns, and evolution of urban form. The forces that shaped cities in history. Contemporary trends. Methods of urban morphological analysis as related to urban design and planning practices. Required for MUP graduate students.

URBDP 506 Planning Studio Prep (3)
Introduces plan-making process, provides time for background research, issue identification, public involvement, and preliminary analysis.

URBDP 507 General Urban Planning Laboratory (5)
Studio/field project in applied professional planning of a comprehensive nature, utilizing a local study area to examine the realities of problem solving in situations of functional and normative conflict. Integration of analysis, programming, implementation, and presentation phases of the planning process.

URBDP 508 Specialized Planning Laboratory (5, max. 10)
Studio/field project on a specialized planning problem. Several options are offered each year, such as regional-environmental planning, housing, metropolitan planning, and urban design. Prerequisite: ARCH 500 and ARCH 507. Additional prerequisite for some sections: urban planning seminar or lecture courses.

URBDP 512 Research Seminar (3)
Planning, designing, and undertaking applied research in an urban setting. Framing, critically assessing, managing, and presenting research used in urban planning and design. Conceptual modeling of causal relationships, choice among experimental and quasi-experimental designs, and ethical and political implications of research undertakings. Exercises leading to a complete research design.

URBDP 513 Real Estate Development Studio ([2-5]-, max. 5)
The Real Estate Development studio is a required for the MSRE option in RE Development. The focus of the course has been traditionally on competitions. The course will continue to focus in commercial real estate competitions (NAIOP) and projects in the autumn quarter, however a focus on affordable housing will be the emphasis while pursuing the Bank of America's affordable Housing Challenge in the winter and spring quarter. Offered: jointly with R E 551; AWSp.

URBDP 514 Race and Social Justice Seminar (1, max. 3)
Explores concepts of race, racism, class, and social justice, and makes explicit their connections between design and planning. Builds student understanding about how, and the degree to which, these disciplines have SA国际传媒ally addressed these topics, and where they stand currently. Includes progress made, challenges, and overt actions that have and may continue to work in racist and unjust ways. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: AWSp.

URBDP 516 Real Estate Economics and Market Analysis (4)
Introduces students to real estate market studies for different uses. Covers five areas: basic economic concepts critical in the understanding of real estate markets; urban economy; land rent theory; locational analysis and decision making; and market analysis. Offered: jointly with R E 516.

URBDP 518 Qualitative Methods for Urban Design and Planning (3)
Surveys use of qualitative methods in urban design and planning practice and research, especially in relationship to places and people. Students develop methodological and analytical skills useful in research and in professional practice.

URBDP 519 Qualitative Research Methods (3)
Qualitative research methods covering both the theoretical foundations and practical methodologies of traditional and innovative approaches, including cognitive mapping, open-ended interviews, ethnographic observation, hermeneutics, phenomenology, critical theory, communicative action, grass-roots empowerment, post-structuralism, and self organization. Offered: jointly with ARCH 567.

URBDP 520 Quantitative Methods in Urban Design and Planning (5)
Methods of statistical and mathematical analysis in design and planning. Emphasizes the use of computer packages for analyzing urban data. Regression, matrix methods, cohort-survival populations models with examples solved on microcomputers. Prerequisite: coursework in arithmetic and basic algebra.

URBDP 522 Urban and Regional Geospatial Analysis (5)
Provides theoretical and practical skills for analyzing spatial patterns and phenomena in metropolitan areas. Students explore the functionality of GIS as an effective tool for analyzing and modeling complex spatial relationships within urban environments. Emphasis is given to data integration and modeling through both raster and vector systems.

URBDP 523 Introduction to Urban Design (3)
Definitions and examples of urban design; heritage of urban design; theories of city building; the role of urban design in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.

URBDP 524 Site Planning: Issues and Techniques (3)
Introduction to site planning; how it is regulated; why it is important to know; and how to carry out its key tasks, including residential subdivision and mixed-use development layout; basic topographical and hydrological analysis and manipulation; roadways, parking and hierarchies of circulation, and site design detail. Offered: W.

URBDP 526 Floodplain Management and Planning for Coastal and River Communities (3)
Focuses on ways to live with and cope with flooding.Examines coastal and riverine floodplain services, values and assets within the context of ecosystem services; determine risks and opportunities associated with flooding and floodplains; advance identified strategies and explore benefits and adverse impacts resulting from these strategies; and gain a better appreciation for coastal and riverine floodplains. Offered: A.

URBDP 527 Urban History, Ethics, Form, and Theory I (3)
Introduces how urban form is shaped by economic, political, social, and technological forces. Focuses on different SA国际传媒al periods, starting with the native city/pre-colonial city. Students learn about formation and transformation of urban environments, and theoretical underpinnings and ethics related to those transformations. Includes experiences of non-elite groups. Offered: A.

URBDP 528 Urban History, Ethics, Form, and Theory II (3)
Introduces how cities are shaped by economic, political, social and technological forces. Focuses on SA国际传媒al periods, including the colonial, industrial, and post-industrial and global cities. Students learn about formation and transformation of urban environments, and theoretical underpinnings and ethics related to those transformations. Includes experiences of non-elite groups. Offered: W.

URBDP 532 Current Topics in Transportation Planning and Policy (4)
Provides an opportunity to advance the student's knowledge by examining selected topics in depth and gaining critical insights about the interconnectivity of various planning and policy approaches. Gives a broad exposure to urban transportation problems and introduces different ideas and practices aimed at addressing these problems, along with important concepts and analytical frameworks. Offered: W.

URBDP 533 Sustainable Transportation and the Environment (3)
Investigates impacts of transportation on the natural and the built environment. Topics may include analysis of bicyclists' and pedestrians' exposure to air/noise pollution and mitigation options, policy incentives to accelerate vehicle electrification to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and successful model cases. Offered: W.

URBDP 534 Environmental Planning (3)
Places cities and urban regions in the context of Earth's eco-evolutionary dynamics. Focuses on the integration of principles of ecosystem dynamics and resilience into planning and decision-making. Uses complex systems theory and explores its application to human-ecological systems through theory, methods, modeling scenarios, and management strategies. Recommended: coursework in introductory environmental systems. Offered: Sp.

URBDP 536 Health Impact Assessment (2)
Examines the use of Health Impact Assessment as a public health tool for informing decision-makers about the potential health impacts of proposed projects and policies. Students learn the steps for conducting HIAs, review case studies, and conduct an HIA of a current local proposed project. Offered: jointly with ENV H 536.

URBDP 538 Public Health and the Built Environment (2)
Examines how the design of communities and land use and transportation decision have positive and adverse effects on health. Considers built environment impacts on physical activity, obesity, air quality, injuries, mental health, social capital, and environmental justice; and explores interventions to promote healthy community design. Offered: jointly with ENV H 538.

URBDP 539 Introduction to Indigenous Planning (3)
Introduces key concepts within Indigenous Planning, and the logistical challenges in conducting planning activities by both tribal and non-tribal governments in the U.S. Examines case studies to understand how planning projects and policies impact housing, tribal economics, and the environment. Offered: W.

URBDP 544 Capstone Studio I (5)
Students work collectively with instructor and peers on a topic to meet the capstone requirement for the Master of Urban Planning program. Project determined by the instructor. Students work on project at an advanced level, culminating in rigorous output and deliverables. Supports the capstone process by providing a structured framework for regular meetings, studio reviews, peer/committee/guest critiques, and process reflections. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: W.

URBDP 545 Capstone Studio II (5)
Students work collectively with instructor and peers on a topic to meet the capstone requirement for the Master of Urban Planning program. Project determined by the instructor. Students work on project at an advanced level, culminating in rigorous output and deliverables. Supports the capstone process by providing a structured framework for regular meetings, studio reviews, peer/committee/guest critiques, and process reflections. Prerequisite: URBDP 544. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: Sp.

URBDP 547 Professional Project (1-9, max. 9)
Credit/no-credit only.

URBDP 549 Hazard Mitigation Planning (3)
A survey of the field of planning for managing risks of natural hazards-earthquakes, floods, coastal/meteorological hazards, and human-caused technological hazards/terrorism. Covers pre-event mitigation through building and land-use controls; disaster preparedness; post-even response, recovery, and mitigation of future hazards. Emphasizes hazard mitigation as a long-term strategy for achieving sustainability of communities.

URBDP 550 Land Use, Growth Management and Environmental Planning (3)
Provides an understanding of contemporary land use issues (including sprawl, smart growth, new urbanism, transit-oriented development, and SA国际传媒's Growth Management Act) and examines their environmental and social welfare implications. Analyzes best practice techniques of growth management. Offered: A.

URBDP 551 Real Estate Asset Management (3)
Focuses on the fundamentals and structure of asset management from a value improvement perspective. Students are educated on the proactive manner asset managers need to respond to changing tenant needs and competitive market condition, while focusing on the asset appreciation throughout the ownership cycle (acquisition, leasing and disposition). Offered: jointly with R E 517; Sp.

URBDP 552 Introduction to Real Estate (3)
Provides a basic overview of the participants, processes, workings of different components of the real estate industry (including a variety of uses spanning from residential, office, retail and industrial to specialized) as well as the quantitative components of the real estate decision-making. Additionally, students are introduced to an overview of construction management, sustainability, corporate services, property law and ethics. Offered: jointly with R E 510; AW.

URBDP 553 Urban Land Economics (4)
Introduces urban economics, land markets, and locational decision making; and examines urban spatial structure and the economic, political, social, technological, and SA国际传媒al forces that shape land values and uses. Uses applied spatial analytical tools including geographic information systems and geogemographic software. Offered: jointly with R E 553; A.

URBDP 554 Real Estate Finance and Investment (4)
Introduces students to basic real estate finance and institutional analysis allowing them to quantify the financial implications of real estate decisions. Topics include: basic time value of money, financial leverage, discounted cash flow analysis (properties and institutional portfolios), assessment of various real estate investment classes and distribution of proceeds to investors. Prerequisite: R E 552/URBDP 552. Offered: jointly with R E 513; A.

URBDP 555 Real Estate Valuation and Appraisal (3)
Every property is unique, therefore the appraisal of real estate presents many challenges and has a strong influence on the financial viability of both existing buildings and the development process. General models for valuing commercial property, industrial property, and land will be introduced. The role of appraisals and different concepts of value will be examined. Offered: jointly with R E 511; A.

URBDP 556 Real Estate Investment (4)
Focuses on direct real estate investment based on the productive capacity of the total property, debt, and equity components and their impact on the cash returns in the form of positive returns to the property, tax savings potential, alternative leverage effects, and the gains at sale. Offered: jointly with R E 556; W.

URBDP 560 Inequality, Governance, and Policy in the Metropolitan Region (3/4)
Explores national/local urban policy concerning the major problems confronting cities and metropolitan regions today. Economic globalization, income inequality, and metropolitan decentralization shape the urban agenda, the context for urban policy, and the analytic focus of the course. A project allows the exploration of strategies for intervention. Offered: jointly with PUBPOL 560.

URBDP 561 Urban Economics and Public Policy (4)
Examines the rationale for and consequences of public intervention in urban land, housing, and transportation markets through land use regulations such as zoning and growth management, infrastructure investments, and fiscal policies to manage urban development and traffic. Prerequisite: successful completion of an introductory microeconomics course or permission of the instructor. Offered: jointly with PUBPOL 561.

URBDP 562 Introduction to Neighborhood Planning and Community Development (3)
Provides introduction to basic practices in neighborhood planning and community development, including theoretical/SA国际传媒al bases; developing neighborhood plans/projects; indicators and evaluation of neighborhood quality; community participation; institutional framework, ethical dilemmas, and professional roles. Addresses current issues, including Seattle's experience, NIMBYism, security, neighborhood character, housing segregation, etc.

URBDP 563 Climate Change and Infrastructure (3)
Takes an in-depth look at climate change and examines each of the six major infrastructure systems in relationship to climate change phenomena. Includes climate change causes and effects; global, national, state, and local mitigation and adaptation strategies; and mitigation and adaptation strategies for infrastructure systems. Offered: jointly with IPM 505; Sp.

URBDP 565 American Urban History (3)
Intensive lecture/seminar designed to provide students the opportunity for immersion in SA国际传媒al scholarship that addresses social, economic, political, technological, and cultural forces that have shaped the development of American cities.

URBDP 566 Infrastructure and Community Facilities (4)
Issues and methods associated with planning for parks, schools, drainage, sewerage, utilities, libraries, solid waste, and transportation. Covers their relationship to comprehensive plans, project permitting, and impact assessment. Financing, regulating, and relationships to social, environmental, and economic goals are discussed.

URBDP 567 Democracy, Citizenship, and Participation in the City (3)
Graduate seminar on democracy in cities. Focuses on contemporary ideas, debates, and initiatives.

URBDP 568 Real Estate Feasibility (4)
Applies critical thinking needed to understand the drivers of value of the major property types which covers the "user in search of a site" and "investor in search of involvement' feasibility questions. Applies a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis to target markets. Offered: jointly with R E 560; Sp.

URBDP 569 Public Health Systems (3)
Survey of issues surrounding private and public healthcare systems in relation to emergency healthcare services. Includes healthcare cultures, critical communication, government funding, emergency preparedness, and psychological recovery from major traumatic events. Offered: jointly with IPM 512.

URBDP 573 Digital Design (4)
Uses digital technologies for mapping, drafting, modeling, and communication. Includes real-world case study projects that focus on urban design and planning issues.

URBDP 576 Pedestrian Travel, Land Use, and Urban Form (3)
Seminar concentrating on walking as a mode of transportation in cities and city-regions, including social, cognitive, and perceptual dimensions of pedestrian movement and behavior theory. Offered: jointly with CET 586.

URBDP 577 Real Estate Project Finance (3)
Introduces financing real property projects developed by public, community, and private entities with a primary emphasis on interim (acquisition/development/construction) and take-out lending for new real estate projects. Offered: jointly with R E 570; Sp.

URBDP 578 Real Estate Development (4)
Introduction and survey of processes and people involved in developing real estate, including issues of site control, public/private approvals, feasibility analysis, project financing, design/construction, marketing, and asset management. Prerequisite: R E 552/URBDP 552. Offered: jointly with R E 550.

URBDP 580 Legal and Administrative Framework for Planning (3)
Political, legal, and administrative institutions closely related to the planning process. Issues of devolution of authority and public representation and participation. Legal basis for planning and associated regulation.

URBDP 581 Introduction to Infrastructure Systems (3)
Introduces infrastructures; systems thinking; the history, basic concepts, legal frameworks, politics, processes, and techniques used in infrastructure systems courses; and climate change as emerging yet lasting phenomenon. Includes overview of IPM online learning environment. Offered: jointly with IPM 502.

URBDP 582 Energy Systems (3)
Explores energy systems as infrastructure critical to the national and global economies; provides an overview of energy resources, production, and delivery. Examines elements of energy infrastructure, how energy systems function, global energy consumption and environmental considerations, and the history and influence of energy sector regulation and adaptation to changing markets. Offered: jointly with IPM 506; A.

URBDP 583 Risk Assessment and Business Continuity (3)
Provides an introduction into how organizations ensure they will survive disasters. Covers the concepts and tools organizations use to survive, and applies them to government and private systems, including energy, water, food, transportation, public health, and communications. Offered: jointly with IPM 508; A.

URBDP 584 Water Systems (3)
Water and water supply as a system element. Water and especially freshwater, as an essential and limited resource. Looks at aging water infrastructure; user conflicts; changes in water distribution tied to climate changes; intergovernmental policy, programs, and relationship; management strategies and tools; and their effect on water and water supply. Offered: jointly with IPM 510; AW.

URBDP 585 Introduction to Historic Preservation Planning (3)
Theories, methods, and practices associated with SA国际传媒 preservation planning. Overview of preservation planning programs at federal, state, and local levels. Introduction to tools and methods needed to identify, document, evaluate, and plan for protection of SA国际传媒 properties. Provides opportunity to learn fundamentals of preservation planning through practical experience.

URBDP 586 Implementation in Preservation Planning (4)
Practical experience in identifying, documenting, evaluating and developing strategies for protection of SA国际传媒 resources, building on introductory theories, methods, and practices. Develops skills critical to preservation planning via research, fieldwork, and writing. Prerequisite: introductory course in preservation.

URBDP 587 Preservation and the Vernacular Environment (3)
Exploration of theoretical, methodological, and practical issues related to the preservation of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes in the United States.

URBDP 590 Real Estate Forum I (1)
Provides an opportunity for students to learn about the interdisciplinary nature of real estate from industry leaders. Discusses current issues and opportunities in the industry as well as what it takes to develop a sustainable career path. Offered: jointly with R E 590; A.

URBDP 591 Doctoral Seminar I (4-)
Researchable issues and research methodology. Discussion and critique of selected pieces of recent research work. Presentation and critique of research proposed by members of the seminar. Prerequisite: master's degree or equivalent in a planning discipline.

URBDP 592 Doctoral Seminar II (-4-)
Researchable issues and research methodology. Discussion and critique of selected pieces of recent research work. Presentation and critique of research proposed by members of the seminar. Prerequisite: master's degree or equivalent in a planning discipline.

URBDP 593 Doctoral Seminar III (-4)
Researchable issues and research methodology. Discussion and critique of selected pieces of recent research work. Presentation and critique of research proposed by members of the seminar. Prerequisite: master's degree or equivalent in a planning discipline.

URBDP 596 Community Resilience (3)
Introduction to resilience thinking. Students apply resilience concepts to real world communities and infrastructures impacted by real events, and gain practice in supporting policies, programs, and projects that enhance overall resilience. Offered: Sp.

URBDP 598 Special Topics (1-6, max. 15)
Systematic study of specialized subject matter. Topics vary for each quarter, depending upon current interest and needs, and are announced in the preceding quarter. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

URBDP 600 Independent Study or Research (*-)

URBDP 700 Master's Thesis (*-)

URBDP 800 Doctoral Dissertation (*-)