Electives
Each semester, the City and Regional Planning section offers seminars, option studios and other special offerings and elective courses which focus on topics that complement the core MCRP curriculum. These courses may also serve students from the other sections of the KSA or across the University. New topics are always in development in order to afford students the opportunity to pursue elective courses whose content is both timely and of particular interest to them.
May 2013
CRPLAN 5100: Basic Video Editing for Planners and Designers
As a tool to communicate ideas, planners and designer use a variety of tools for print and digital media. One medium that is over looked is the use of videos. To facilitate the use of video in advancing communication technique, Adobe Premiere Elements will be taught in a lab/lecture setting. For one week, the condensed course will work through the techniques and theory of how nonlinear video editing software can enhance the dissemination of information.
1 credit hour
CRPLAN 5100: Videography for Professional Use in the Built Environment
Video is permeating our society on every level--some create videos every day for fun and entertainment, while other use video to inform and educate about current events, new ideas and social issues to influence human progress. In all video communication, the style of communication is central to the audience receiving the message. By the end of this course, you be able to create a video communication plan for a set of ideas. During the first two weeks of the course, we will review videos on discussing the built environment, analyzing them for strengths and weaknesses to help develop new ideas for educating audiences about the built environment. The second two weeks of the term we will develop these ideas by creating storyboards and pre-production content. The final assignment in the course will be short video to pitch ideas for a longer video to be used in future courses.
2 credit hours
CRPLAN 5798: Planning Study Abroad
The Ghana Sustainable Change Program, in its 4th year, takes its 3rd trip to Ghana’s Offinso North District in the Ashanti Region for a field studio. Work with local civic leaders, citizens, and university students to address community challenges. Students must register for credit through buckeyelink as well as apply through the Office of International Affairs in order to participate.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 5890: TechniCity Workshop
We are part of the 'TechniCity'. The increasing availability of networks, sensors and mobile technologies allows for new approaches to address the challenges that our cities face. The way we understand cities is undergoing sweeping transformation, right along with the analytical tools we use to design our cities and the communication tools we use to engage people. Absorbing, studying and understanding the role of technology from a critical viewpoint allows us to generate creative ideas for improving our cities. This is a completely online course where you will be engaging from students from across the globe. See coursera.org/course/techcity for more details. You must enroll through OSU to receive course credit.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 8890: Applications of Spatial Econometrics in Planning
Introduces spatial statistical models of data analysis using several spatial statistical packages in R and MATLAB. Spatial statistics operationalize the first law of geography: “everything is related to everything else, and the near things are more related than distant things.” Within planning and other fields, spatial statistical models thus allow for the incorporation of the notion of neighborhood into inference.
After this course, you will be able to use R to define an appropriate neighborhood structure corresponding to your research interest, and then to know how to convert that structure into a spatial weight matrix to account for the spatial autocorrelation. Furthermore, you will learn how to use spatial autoregressive models (SAR), spatial error models (SEM), spatial autocorrelation models (SAC), spatial panel models and spatial probit models and know how to interpret the results.
3 credit hours
Summer 2013
CRPLAN 6890: Visualizing Planning Topics using Google Sketchup
This workshop is designed to introduce 3D modeling as a tool for communicating planning topics such as visualizing zoning, urban density, and future project conceptualization. Google Sketchup, a free 3D modeling program, will be used as an armature to create visualizations during the course.
1 credit hours
Autumn 2013
CRPLAN 5001: Introduction to GIS
Introduction to the basic principles of geographic information systems and their use in spatial analysis and information management.
4 credit hours
CRPLAN 5010: Historic Preservation Planning (Session 1)
Cities are rich in history. Policies, incentives and planning aid in preserving unique historic character and heritage of cities.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 5194: Separate and Unequal: The History of Race & Real Estate in Urban Ohio
Sponsored by the Kirwan Center.
- How did public and private entities structure investment and disinvestment in American cities?
- How were Ohio's urban communities shaped by those actions?
- What are the continuing impacts of historical planning and development decisions?
This course draws on literature from planning, geography, and sociology to investigate the variety of public and private tools that shaped urban development, demographics, and design. Redlining, zoning, restrictive covenants, highway construction and school desegregation will be covered.
Drawing on the OSU Geography Library's recently acquired and digitized "redline" maps of fourteen Ohio cities (Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Hamilton, Lima, Portsmouth, Springfield, Toledo, Warren, and Youngstown) from the National Archives, students will have the opportunity to do the first scholarly and analytic explorations of these discriminatory maps and the role they played in shaping Ohio's urban neighborhoods.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 5500: Energy Planning
Energy makes cities run, from renewable and non-renewable sources. Energy is a driving opportunity and constraint in urban development.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 5700: Urban Transportation Demand Forecasting
Introduction and applications for quantitative demand forecasting in urban transportation.
Prereq: Math 1118 or equiv, or Grad standing. Cross-listed in CivilEn.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 5900: Food System Planning and the Economy
The purpose of this course is to build knowledge of the food system from local planning and policy and applied economic perspectives. The food economy, planning and policy have traditionally been considered a national domain, and has dealt with issues such as public health, nutrition, anti-hunger, food safety, food labeling, international trade and food aid. In the past several years, however, food has been recognized as an issue for local governance, planning and economic development. Community food governance and planning (or lack thereof) affects the ways that people produce, obtain, consume and dispose of their food. Food decisions affect where and how food can be grown, where and how food can be accessed, and how food is integrated into broader community goals.
The intent of the course is to familiarize students with key players and issues related to the practice of food system planning (the process and practice of creating and implementing food policies) and how this practice interfaces with the economy - and to place these issues in a global context. Further, basic issues in our conventional food system (production, distribution, marketing, and disposal of food), particularly with regard to those elements that may be influenced by civic action and public regulation, will be addressed. Building on these basic issues, the course will provide the fodder to examine and critique alternatives to this system (e.g., urban farming, local foods, direct markets, civic agriculture). The class is structured to develop and challenge participants’ thinking through readings, lectures, interaction with participants in alternative food system, and structured discussion. At the end of the class, students should have an increased understanding of food systems as a planning and community development topic.
Cross-listed in AEDEcon and CRPlan.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 6010: Innovation in City and Regional Planning
Successful cities are innovative and forward-thinking. Challenges students to focus on generation of truly innovate ideas to improve cities and regions.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 6310: Law and Planning II: Environment and Society
The role of social and environmental justice and other societal considerations in the establishment of a legal framework in planning.
Instructor name coming soon. Prereq: 6300 (761), and Grad standing; or permission of instructor.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 6610: Grant Writing in the Public Sector
Instructor: Amy Wade
Public officials rely on grants to help fund their grand plans. Planners find grants, prepare proposals, and manage grants to effectively support public projects.
Cross-listed in PubAfrs 7501.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 6700: Advanced Graphics: Multipage Document Design (Session 1)
Advanced work in the creation of multipage documents. This 7-week course will be used to analyze, design and create multiage documents. Hands on practice in the creation of a document will be used as an armature for this learning process.
Basic knowledge of Adobe InDesign is required.
1 credit hour
CRPLAN 6700: Visualizing Planning Topics Using Trimble Sketchup (Session 2)
This workshop is designed to introduce 3D modeling as a tool for communicating planning topics such as visualizing zoning, urban density, and future project conceptualization. Trimble Sketchup, a free 3D modeling program, will be used as an armature to create visualizations during the course.
1 credit hour
CRPLAN 6890: Creative Placemaking I: Building Creative Communities, Economies, and Analyses
Instructor: Leo Vazquez
This course is the first of two on Creative Placemaking (the second will be offered in Spring 2014). Each course has three modules. Between each module is a week for written summative work. After all six modules, students can choose to add on a one-credit independent studio project to earn a Master Practitioner Certificate in Creative Placemaking.
The following modules are offered in this course: Module I: Building creative communities; Module II: Building creative economies; Module III: Analysis for creative placemaking.
For more information, click the course title above.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 6890: Planning Healthy Communities
This course is intended to promote an interdisciplinary learning environment to examine the relationship between the community planning and public health issues/outcomes, using the social ecological model as a framework. Despite the long history and daily interplay these areas have with one another, they are traditionally taught and practiced with little coordination. Issues related to transportation, land use, urban design, community development, environmental policy, health promotion and disease prevention are discussed, with examples covering how and why these elements should be considered part of the process and the outcome of public decision-making.
3 credit hours
CRPLAN 6910: Comprehensive Planning Studio
Application of knowledge and skills to a comprehensive planning process in consultation with professionals to produce a plan for use by a real world client.
More detailed topic information coming soon. Prereq: 6400 (745) and 6500 (762), or permission of instructor.
6 credit hours
CRPLAN 6960: Sustainability Studio
Planning for sustainability requires systems thinking, strategic solutions and collaborative goverance. Sustainability plans will be generated through active engagement with a client community.
More detailed topic information coming soon. Prereq: 6410 (724), and Grad standing, or permission of instructor.
6 credit hours
