Urban Design and Development

New Course 2023-2024!

In this studio-based course, students will design future cities and land development plans.   Discovery will be focused on the structure of urban planning and how policy, sustainability, economics, humanities, technology and social relationships come together in urban design.  Together, we will also investigate, through hands-on projects, how existing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas have changed over time and ways communities are being revitalized or totally reimagined from the ground up in emerging parts of the country.  Using understanding and synthesize, students will ideate and prototype new urban concepts, developments and/or planned communities.  Designs will be communicated through CAD programs, design proposals and physical modeling and prototyping.  This course fulfills the graduation requirement for fine and/or practical arts.