University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Urban & Regional Planning PLAN 645: Land Use Planning Course Syllabus Fall 2011 Tuesdays, 1:30 4:15 p.m. Saunders 119 Peter Flachsbart, Ph.D., AICP Associate Professor Introduction This course focuses on issues and methods of urban land use planning as practiced in the United States. According to surveys of professional planners by the American Planning Association, the majority of all planners are involved in some way with issues related to urban land use planning. The course initially reviews the legacy of land use planning practice, lessons learned from past planning mistakes, and the ingredients of good plans. It then explains how to prepare land use designs based on planning information systems, population and economic projections, and land suitability analyses based on infrastructure, natural resource, and other environmental factors. To prepare good land use designs, the course covers the siting and sizing requirements of residential, commercial, institutional and industrial land uses and community facilities. It then reviews traditional techniques of land use guidance, and adaptive techniques used to modify land use plans and manage development. Prerequisites This course is designed for MURP degree and planning certificate students interested in urban land use planning as practiced in the United States. The course synthesizes topics from courses in planning methods and models, environmental planning, land use policies and programs, and urban transportation planning. Students will need a working knowledge of computer spreadsheets and geographic information systems to complete a major course assignment. Requirements and Grading Policy The course uses a lecture and class discussion format. Lectures are based on assigned readings listed in the attached class schedule. The final grade will be determined based on marks earned on the following requirements:
Points Percent Written assignments (3) 300 60 Oral presentation 25 5 Class participation 25 5 Final exam 150 30 500 100 Here are the minimum points needed to earn certain grades: Grade Minimum Points A+ 488 A 463 A- 450 B+ 438 B 413 B- 400 C+ 388 C 363 C- 350 D 300 The purpose of the three homework assignments is to further develop your knowledge and skills of urban land use planning. The first assignment will be an evaluation of an urban land use plan. The second and third assignments, which are based on the Hypothetical City Workbook III by Ann-Margaret Esnard et al. (2006), involve working in small teams of three or four students. These teams will be determined after the first assignment has been submitted, graded and returned. The deadline for each assignment is shown on the attached class schedule. The specific requirements of each assignment will be distributed and explained by the instructor later in the course. Besides satisfying the specific requirements of a given assignment, written work should be accurate, creative, logical, and persuasive. The appearance, format, and style of your work will also be evaluated, because they are important to professional planning practice. In general, assignments should be typed and double-spaced with a readable font (e.g., 12 point) on 8.5 x 11 inch, plain white paper with one-inch margins. Footnotes and references should be completely documented and should follow a consistent, conventional format. Each student will also give a 15- to 20-minute oral presentation of either the second or third assignment. Presentations will be graded on the quality of your communication and graphic skills. Please read the following articles in the Course Reader before submitting your paper and giving your oral presentation: Graivier, Pauline. 1992. How to speak so people will listen, Planning 58 (12): 15-18. Leach, John. 1993. Seven steps to better writing, Planning 59 (6): 26-27. 2
Please confer with the instructor if a written assignment must be submitted late due to illness or comparable reasons. Without permission, late assignments will be penalized 20 percent of the maximum value of the assignment for each working day that the assignment is late. This policy is fair to students who submitted their assignments on time. Because the class size is small, students are expected to participate in class discussions and to stay current in the readings. Besides attending class and listening to the discussion, students will be expected to voice their opinions and answer questions. Students who participate regularly in class discussions are more likely to receive a better grade for the course. If you need to miss a class, please ask a classmate to pick up handouts distributed in class. If that is not possible, you can pick them up from the instructor in his office. The final examination is comprehensive. It covers the entire course. The examination will consist of multiple-choice and short-essay questions. There will be no mid-term examination. Incomplete grades will be given only to students who have compelling reasons, such as extended illness or comparable excuses. Insufficient time to complete work is not an adequate reason, since time management is an important academic and job skill. Please notify the instructor whenever you must be absent from classes for an extended period due to illness or travel. Office Hours My regular office hours are 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. (after class) on Tuesdays and from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in Saunders 107A. If these hours are inconvenient, please make an appointment. You can reach me by telephone (808-956-8684), facsimile (808-956-6870), or e- mail (flachsba@hawaii.edu). Please do not submit written assignments as attachments to an e- mail message. Readings Readings include two textbooks and various reserve readings as listed below. Textbooks The primary readings are two required textbooks available from the University Bookstore in the Student Campus Center. These books are: Philip R. Berke, David R. Godschalk, Edward J. Kaiser, and Daniel A. Rodriguez. 2006. Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois. Ann-Margaret Esnard, Philip R. Berke, David R. Godschalk, and Edward J. Kaiser. 2006. Hypothetical City Workbook III: Exercises and GIS Data to Accompany Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois. 3
Course Reader Listed below are articles in the Course Reader (CR). It provides recent literature on land use planning that is not in the textbooks. Articles in the Course Reader appear in alphabetical order according to the lead author s last name. You can purchase the Course Reader from Professional Image at 2633 South King St. near University Avenue during the second week of the semester. If you wish to purchase a copy of the reader, please phone Professional Image at 973-6599 to order a copy. Aalto, Anthony and Robert D. Harris. 2010. Leave Koa Ridge farmland intact, The Honolulu Advertiser, March 19, p. A18. Baer, William C. 1997. General plan evaluation criteria: An approach to making better plans, Journal of the American Planning Association 63 (3): 329-344. Berke, Philip R. and Maria Manta Conroy. 2000. Are we planning for sustainable development? An evaluation of 30 comprehensive Plans, Journal of the American Planning Association 66 (1): 21-33. Downs, Anthony. 2001. What does smart growth really mean? Planning (April): 20-25. Duany, Andres and Emily Talen. 2002. Transect planning Journal of the American Planning Association 68 (3): 245-266. Fidell, Jay. 2011. Labyrinthine land-use laws suffocating the economy, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, March 1, p. B6. Gomes, Andrew. 2010. State gives final OK to Koa Ridge project, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. October 17, p. D2. Gomes, Andrew. 2011. Koa Ridge project turned back again, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. July 20, pp. A1, A9. Graivier, Pauline. 1992. How to speak so people will listen, Planning 58 (12): 15-18. Hinshaw, Mark. 2008. Great neighborhoods: Places that stand out for their character, livability, and positive community feeling, Planning 74 (1): 6-11. Jun, Myung-Jin. 2008. Are Portland s smart growth policies related to reduce automobile dependence? Journal of Planning Education and Research 28 (1): 100-107. Kaiser, Edward J. and David R. Godschalk. 1995. Twentieth century land use planning, Journal of the American Planning Association 61 (3): 365-385. Leach, John. 1993. Seven steps to better writing, Planning 59 (6): 26-27. 4
Lewis, Paul G. and Mark Baldassare. 2010. The complexity of public attitudes toward compact development, Journal of the American Planning Association 76 (2): 219-237. Lum, Curtis. 2010. Koa Ridge project s fate nears resolution, Pacific Business News, July 23, 48 (21): 1, 44. Martin, Sandra Olivetti. 2010. Maryland s second generation of smart growth, Planning 76 (3): 20-24. Saunders, Harry A. 2010. Koa Ridge aims for village feel The Honolulu Advertiser, March 14, pp. B1, B4. Segedy, Jim and Tom Daniels. 2007. Small town design: getting it right, Planning 73 (6): 36-39. Talen, Emily. 2009. Design by the rules, Journal of the American Planning Association 75 (2): 144-160. Talen, Emily and Cliff Ellis. 2002. Beyond relativism: Reclaiming the search for good city form, Journal of Planning Education and Research 22 (1): 36-49. References Listed below in alphabetical order are additional readings and references on urban land use planning. Those readings not on the reserve shelf may be in the open stacks of Hamilton Library. American Planning Association. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey. Badcock, Blair. 2002. Making Sense of Cities: A Geographical Survey. Oxford University Press, New York. Bogart, William T. 2006. Don t Call it Sprawl: Metropolitan Structure in the Twenty- First Century. Cambridge University Press, New York, New York. Burchell, Robert W. Anthony Downs, Barbara McCann, and Sahan Mukherji. 2005. Sprawl Costs: Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development, Island Press, Washington, D.C. 5
Daniels, Thomas L., John W. Keller, Mark B. Lapping, Katherine Daniels, and James Segedy. 2007. The Small Town Planning Handbook, Third Edition. APA Planners Press, Chicago, Illinois. De Chiara, Joseph and Lee Koppelman. 1982. Urban Planning and Design Criteria, Third Edition. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. DeGrove, John M. 2005. Planning Policy and Politics; Smart Growth and the States. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Duany Andres and Jeff Speck with Mike Lydon. 2010. The Smart Growth Manual. McGraw Hill, New York. Frumkin, Howard, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson. 2004. Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for healthy Communities. Island Press, Washington, D.C. Garvin, Alexander. 1996. The American City: What Works, What Doesn't. McGraw- Hill, New York. Hopkins, Lewis D. 2001. Urban Development: The Logic of Making Plans. Island Press, Washington, D.C. Ingram, Gregory K., Armando Carbonell, Yu-Hung Hong, and Anthony Flint. 2009. Smart Growth Policies: An Evaluation of Programs and Outcomes. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kwartler, Michael and Gianni Longo. 2008. Visioning and Visualization: People, Pixels, and Plans. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Langdon, Philip. 1994. A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb. The University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Massachusetts. Levy, John M. 2003. Contemporary Urban Planning, Sixth Edition. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Miller, Jonathan D. 2010. Emerging Trends in Real Estate. ULI-the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Washington, D.C. Nelson, Arthur C. 2004. Planner s Estimating Guide: Projecting Land-Use and Facility Needs, APA Planners Press, Chicago, Illinois. Platt, Rutherford H. 1996. Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 6
Schmitz, Adrienne. 2004. Residential Development Handbook, Urban Land Institute, Washington, D.C. Villani, John. 1998. The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America: Discover Creative Communities, Fresh Air, and Affordable Living. John Muir Publications, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Wolf, Peter. 1999. Hot Towns: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 7