CP 6006 – Visualization for Planners: Explores visual and representational techniques and methods for physical planning, introducing a common set of computer applications designed to enhance visual representation and communication.

CP 6031 – Economic Analysis–Planning: Applications of economic principles to planning, including market theory, public goods, externalities, cost-benefit analysis, and project economics.

CP 6037 – Planning Law, Regulations, and Implementation: Study of legal framework of planning focusing on managing development and increasing opportunity to achieve desired outcomes for the economy, society, and the environment.

CP 6053 – Urban Design Studio: Investigates urban physical settings. Emphasizes processes from visual representation and performance evaluations to design decision making of future sustainable urban systems.

CP 6105 – Land Conservation: Considers the distinctive American view of land and history of the conservation movement, then discusses the why and how of modern land conservation.

CP 6112 – Intro to Land Use: Introduces students to land use planning, covering rationale and policy forms in different states.

CP 6213 – Urban Environmental Planning & Design: Introduces the basic theoretical and analytical underpinnings of urban environmental planning and design.

CP 6217 – Climate Change & City: Explores land use and urban design strategies for adapting to climate change in cities and local hazard mitigation policy.

CP 6233 – Sustainable Urban Development: Introduces students to the theory and practice of sustainability as applied to the built environment at scales from the site to the mega-region.

CP 6331 – Land Use and Transportation: Overview of land use and transportation planning principles, how development impacts transportation, how transportation investments impact development patterns and air quality.

CP 6412 – Economic Development Planning: Policy Introduction to local economic development planning, examining theory, process and practice, international and regional factors, public and private roles.

CP 6514 – Introduction to GIS: Introduces students to spatial analysis using geographic information systems. Fundamentals of software design and geographic data are covered.

CP 6521 – Advanced GIS: Provides advanced spatial analysis techniques including network analysis, 3D surface modeling, and GIS application development.

CP 6531 – Intro to Remote Sensing: Introduces the collection and use of satellite imagery and other remote sensing data.

CP 6541 – Environmental GIS: Focuses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) to environmental problems and highlights types and sources of data appropriate to those applications.

CP 6543 – Public Health Analytics: Presents a comprehensive socioecological framework for conducting healthy places research and practice, and metrics and analytical methods to measure and model health determinants and outcomes.

CP 6552 – Design Smart Urban Systems: Integrates data analytics, systems science, and urban design. Covers theories, methods, modeling tools, and case studies in the context of smart cities.

CP 6570 – Socioeconomic GIS: Addresses the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of spatial social, economic, housing, and demographic information.

CP 6592 – GIS Capstone Project Preparation: Allows students to select a MSGIST capstone topic, conduct a literature review, and assemble required spatial datasets.

CP 6611 – Real Estate Finance & Development: Introduces principles of real estate finance, focusing on the role the public sector plays in making desirable development projects financially feasible.

CP 6612 – Community Development: This course will examine neighborhood-based efforts, public policy, trends and practices that have shaped community development in American inner city communities since 1950.

CP 6701 – Urban Transportation Planning: An overview course on the history, finance, operations, modeling, politics, environmental impacts, and planning of urban transportation systems in the United States.

CP 6815 – Cinema City: Explores people's response to cities, augmenting the empirical analysis that is urban studies domain with the subjective perspectives of cinematic artists.

CP 6960 – Urban Analytic Capstone: Students prepare to execute a major professional project using urban analytics methodologies and communicate the results in written, graphic, and presentation formats.

CP 8022 – PhD Seminar: Research and Pedagogy: Students conceptualize and share ongoing research, develop professional and pedagogical skills, and explore issues of student and career development.

CP 8505 – Advanced Quantitative Research Methods: This course addresses two complementary topics: the design of quantitative research related to planning, design, and policy; and advanced statistical techniques for accomplishing such research.

CP 8505 – PhD Sem Research and Pedagogy: Students conceptualize and share ongoing research with their peers, develop professional and pedagogical skills, and explore issues of student and career development.8505  

CP 8881 – Special Topics: Ending Homelessness, Innovation, and Collaboration: Explores the root causes and systemic challenges of homelessness. Through inquiry-based learning and exposure to innovative practices, students will engage with real-world solutions and meet leaders driving impactful change in the field.

CP 8999 – Doctoral Dissertation Preparation

CP 9000 – Doctoral Dissertation

CP 2030 – Atlanta Past, Present, and Future: This community-engaged course will cover 19th, 20th, and 21st century urban history and theory, seen through the lens of Atlanta’s unique history and character.

CP 2233 – Sustainable Urban Development: Introduces students to the theory and practice of sustainability as applied to the built environment at scales from the site to the mega-region.

CP 4020 – Intro to Urban and Regional Planning: Provides an overview of the planning of cities and metropolitan regions. The legal and historical context as well as substantive areas of urban planning are addressed. Cross listed with CP 2020.

CP 4030 – City and Technology: This course places urban infrastructure technology within the larger context of planning and development. The social and economic aspects of these systems are highlighted.

CP 4040 – City in Fiction and Film: Examines images and perceptions of the urban environment as portrayed in literature and cinema. Explores the social, economic, and cultural contexts that impact on conception of the city.

CP 4060 – Urban Data Science: This course explores the intersection of data analytics, big data, and artificial intelligence in the context of urban environments.

CP 4105 – Land Conservation: Considers the distinctive American view of land and history of the conservation movement, then discusses the why and how of modern land conservation.

CP 4510 – Intro to Geographic Information Systems: Provides a basic understanding of the tools for collecting, storing, and analyzing spatially distributed data. Basic issues of software design and application are covered.

CP 4541 – Environmental GIS: Focuses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) to environmental problems. Highlights types and sources of data appropriate to those applications.

CP 4811 – Confronting Homelessness Workshop with Protip Biswas from United Way: Explores the root causes and systemic challenges of homelessness. Through inquiry-based learning and exposure to innovative practices, students will engage with real-world solutions and meet leaders driving impactful change in the field.

CP 4813 – Sustainable Development Planning in Puerto Rico: Explores sustainable development resilience in Puerto Rico through classroom learning, fieldwork, and community projects with a study abroad during spring break.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Economic Development Planning: Policy introduction to local economic development planning, examining theory, process and practice, international and regional factors, public and private roles.  

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Design Smart Urban Systems: Integrates data analytics, systems science, and urban design. Covers theories, methods, modeling tools, and case studies in the context of smart cities.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Public Health Analytics: Presents a comprehensive sociological framework for conducting healthy places research and practice, and metrics and analytical methods to measure and model health determinants and outcomes.  

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Urban Transportation Planning: An overview course on the history, finance, operations, modeling, politics, environmental impacts, and planning of urban transportation systems in the United States.

CP 6025 – Advanced Planning Methods: Analytical methods in planning including inferential statistics, linear regression, and analysis of variance and how they are applied to planning problems.

CP 6035 – Theory & History of Planning: Examines theories of planning and the public interest, the intellectual and historical development of the planning profession, and the roles of planners within political systems.

CP 6036 – Community Dynamics & Engagement: Study of theories and dynamics of community-building, with a focus on working in communities, equity and inclusive community engagement.

CP 6055 – Planning Studio: Analysis and preparation of alternatives for an existing neighborhood, community, or region. Emphasis on application of planning skills in a real-world situation.

CP 6112 – Intro to Land Use: Introduces students to land use planning. The basic rationale for land use planning and its form in different states is covered.

CP 6190 – Intro to Climate Change Planning: This course equips students with the knowledge and methods necessary to develop the next generation of state, local, corporate, and enterprise climate action planning.

CP 6233 – Sustainable Urban Development: Introduces students to the theory and practice of sustainability as applied to the built environment at scales from the site to the mega-region.

CP 6514 – Introduction to GIS: Introduces students to spatial analysis using geographic information systems. Fundamentals of software design and geographic data are covered.

CP 6545 – Climate Change Analytics: Analytical methods in planning including inferential statistics, linear regression, and analysis of variance and how they are applied to planning problems.

CP 6581 – Programming for GIS: Teaches fundamental programming skills for geoprocessing and data presentation in a geographic information system environment. The primary languages used are Python and JavaScript.

CP 6591 – GIS Professional Seminar: Provides MSGIST students with a bridge from the academic world to the professional GIS world.

CP 6630 – Government and Housing Markets: Examination of the operation of local housing markets and national, state, regional, and local housing policies.

CP 6640 – Real Estate Development Methods: Application of the development process, market and financial feasibility analyses, and public policy to large development projects. Extensive use of case studies involving professional developers.

CP 6704 – Intro to Global Development: Introduces the goals, theories and key institutional actors involved in Global Development.

CP 6834 – Urban Design Policy: Urban design policy making and its implementation including an analysis of the behavioral basis for policies that promote quality in built form.

CP 6850 – Public Health and the Built Environment: Examines how cities and neighborhoods can have both positive and adverse effects on human health and produces recommendations to improve these outcomes.

CP 6962 – Urban Analytics Capstone: Students plan and execute a major professional project using urban analytics methodologies and communicate the project results in written, graphic, and public presentation formats.

CP 8012 – PhD Foundations Seminar: Incoming doctoral students reflect upon research, assess opportunities afforded by doctoral education, and develop a plan of study for the program.

CP 8022 – PhD Seminar in Research and Pedagogy: Students conceptualize and share ongoing research with their peers, develop professional and pedagogical skills, and explore issues of student and career development.

CP 8400 – Research Design and Qualitative Methods: Examines issues associated with the design and methodological implementation of planning and applied social research, with a focus on techniques for qualitative inquiry.

CP 8853 – Special Topics in GIS: Interactive Maps and Geovisualization: Evaluating geovisualization and geovisual analytics software for usability, functionality, and utility.  

CP 8873 – Special Topics: Urban DesignSmart City Workshop: Integrates data analytics, systems science, and urban design. Covers theories, methods, modeling tools, and case studies in the context of smart cities.

CP 8883 – Special Topics in City and Regional Planning: Intro to Urban Analytics: By the end of the course, students will have a practical understanding of how data and advanced analytical techniques can be used to enhance city planning and management

CP 8990 – Applied Research Paper: Requires students to demonstrate their ability to organize and execute professional-level work in consultation with a faculty member.

CP 8999 – Doctoral Dissertation Preparation

CP 9000 – Doctoral Dissertation

CP 2040 – Cities of Tomorrow: This course explores how the forces shaping 21st-century cities compare to the dynamics that shaped cities of the past and present.

CP 2233 – Sustainable Urban Development: Introduces students to the theory and practice of sustainability as applied to the built environment at scales from the site to the mega-region.

CP 2235 – World Cities: This class explores the past evolution of world cities, the enormous challenges they face in the present, and the opportunities for innovative, sustainable urban solutions.

CP 4010 – Foundations of Urban and Regional Development: The course describes the economic function of cities and the significant factors that shape their growth and development.

CP 4020 – Introduction to Urban Regional Planning: Provides an overview of the planning of cities and metropolitan regions. The legal and historical context as well as substantive areas of urban planning are addressed. Cross listed with CP 2020.

CP 4052 – Sustainable Cities Studio: Provides students with a faculty-supervised community engagement experience in developing a sustainability-related project for a non-profit, business, or government agency.

CP 4190 – Intro to Climate Change Planning: This course equips students with the knowledge and methods necessary to undertake the next generation of state, local, corporate, and enterprise climate action planning.

CP 4310 – Urban Transportation and Planning: Designed to introduce the fundamentals of urban transportation planning and policy and is applicable to students in a variety of concentrations of study. The purpose of the course will be to acquaint students with transportation planning as a profession and the types of projects that transportation planners are required to conduct.

CP 4510 – Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Provides a basic understanding of the tools for collecting, storing, and analyzing spatially distributed data. Basic issues of software design and application are covered.

CP 4545 – Climate Change Analytics: Analytical methods in planning including inferential statistics, linear regression, and analysis of variance and how they are applied to planning problems.

CP 4610 – Introduction to Real Estate Investment: Subjects include attributes of real property, value determinations, appraisal, investment analysis, market analysis, asset management, and public aspects.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Public Health and the Built Environment: Examines how cities and neighborhoods can have both positive and adverse effects on human health and produces recommendations to improve these outcomes.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Government and Housing Markets: Examination of the operation of local housing markets and national, state, regional, and local housing policies.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Geographic Information System and Computing: This course focuses on the technical elements of geographic information systems (GIS) and it uses the open-source software QuantumGIS (QGIS). Topics/skills: spatial data formats, projections, mapmaking, combining datasets, spatial operations, and processing rasters.   

CP 6514 – Introduction to GIS: Introduces students to spatial analysis using geographic information systems. Fundamentals of software design and geographic data are covered.

CP 6595 – GIS Systems Design and Management: Equips students to address issues related to GIS data acquisition, database design, system configuration, and project management.

CP 6596 – GIS Capstone Project: Students plan and execute a major professional project using standard GIS methodologies and communicate the results in written, graphic, and presentation formats.

CP 6962 – Urban Analytics Capstone Project: Students plan and execute a major professional project using urban analytics methodologies and communicate the results in written, graphic, and public presentation formats. 

CP 2233 – Sustainable Urban Development: Introduces students to the theory and practice of sustainability as applied to the built environment at scales from the site to the mega-region.

CP 2235 – World Cities: This class explores the past evolution of world cities, the enormous challenges they face in the present, and the opportunities for innovative, sustainable urban solutions.

CP 4010 – Foundations of Urban and Regional Development: The course describes the economic function of cities and the significant factors that shape their growth and development.

CP 4020 – Introduction to Urban Regional Planning: Provides an overview of the planning of cities and metropolitan regions. The legal and historical context as well as substantive areas of urban planning are addressed.

CP 4030 – City and Technology: This course places urban infrastructure technology within the larger context of planning and development. The social and economic aspects of these systems are highlighted.

CP 4310 – Urban Transportation and Planning: Designed to introduce the fundamentals of urban transportation planning and policy and is applicable to students in a variety of concentrations of study. The purpose of the course will be to acquaint students with transportation planning as a profession and the types of projects that transportation planners are required to conduct.

CP 4510 – Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Provides a basic understanding of the tools for collecting, storing, and analyzing spatially distributed data. Basic issues of software design and application are covered. 

CP 6006 – Visualization for Planners: Explores visual and representational techniques and methods for physical planning, introducing a common set of computer applications designed to enhance visual representation and communication.

CP 6031 – Economic Analysis–Planning: Applications of economic principles to planning, including market theory, public goods, externalities, cost-benefit analysis, and project economics.

CP 6037 – Planning Law, Regulations, and Implementation: Study of legal framework of planning focusing on managing development and increasing opportunity to achieve desired outcomes for the economy, society, and the environment.

CP 6053 – Urban Design Studio: Investigates urban physical settings. Emphasizes processes from visual representation and performance evaluations to design decision making for sustainable urban systems.

CP 6105 – Land Conservation: Considers the distinctive American view of land and history of the conservation movement, then discusses the why and how of modern land conservation.

CP 6112 – Intro to Land Use: Introduces students to land use planning, covering rationale and policy forms in different states.

CP 6213 – Urban Environmental Planning & Design: Introduces the basic theoretical and analytical underpinnings of urban environmental planning and design.

CP 6217 – Climate Change & City: Explores land use and urban design strategies for adapting to climate change in cities and local hazard mitigation policy.

CP 6233 – Sustainable Urban Development: Introduces students to the theory and practice of sustainability as applied to the built environment at scales from the site to the mega-region.

CP 6412 – Economic Development Planning: Policy Introduction to local economic development planning, examining theory, process and practice, international and regional factors, public and private roles.

CP 6514 – Introduction to GIS: Introduces students to spatial analysis using geographic information systems. Fundamentals of software design and geographic data are covered.

CP 6521 – Advanced GIS: Provides advanced spatial analysis techniques including network analysis, 3D surface modeling, and GIS application development.

CP 6531 – Intro to Remote Sensing: Introduces the collection and use of satellite imagery and other remote sensing data.

CP 6541 – Environmental GIS: Focuses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) to environmental problems.

CP 6543 – Public Health Analytics: Presents a comprehensive socioecological framework for conducting healthy places research and practice, and metrics and analytical methods to measure and model health determinants and outcomes.

CP 6552 – Design Smart Urban Systems: Integrates data analytics, systems science, and urban design. Covers theories, methods, modeling tools, and case studies in the context of smart cities.

CP 6570 – Socioeconomic GIS: Addresses collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of spatial social, economic, housing, and demographic data.

CP 6592 – GIS Capstone Project Preparation: Allows students to select a MSGIST capstone topic, conduct a literature review, and assemble required spatial datasets.

CP 6611 – Real Estate Finance & Development: Introduces principles of real estate finance, focusing on the role the public sector plays in making desirable development projects financially feasible.

CP 6760 – Negotiation & Conflict Management: Provides instruction on techniques of negotiation and consensus building using exercises and case studies. Emphasizes environmental, policy, planning, and development disputes.

CP 6815 – Cinema City: Explores people's response to cities, augmenting the empirical analysis that is urban studies domain with the subjective perspectives of cinematic artists.

CP 6960 – Urban Analytic Capstone: Students prepare to execute a major professional project using urban analytics methodologies and communicate the results in written, graphic, and public formats.

CP 8022 – PhD Seminar: Research and Pedagogy: Students conceptualize and share ongoing research, develop professional and pedagogical skills, and explore issues of student and career development.

CP 8300 – Advanced Urban and Regional Theory: Examines principal urban-regional economic, and spatial theories for explaining economic, social and physical forces influencing locations, growth and decline of cities and regions.

CP 8881 – Special Topics: Ending Homelessness, Innovation, and Collaboration: Explores the root causes and systemic challenges of homelessness. Through inquiry-based learning and exposure to innovative practices, students will engage with real-world solutions and meet leaders driving impactful change in the field. 

CP 8999 – Doctoral Dissertation Preparation

CP 9000 – Doctoral Dissertation

CP 2233 – Sustainable Urban Development: Introduces students to the theory and practice of sustainability as applied to the built environment at scales from the site to the mega-region.

CP 4020 – Intro to Urban and Regional Planning: Provides an overview of the planning of cities and metropolitan regions. The legal and historical context as well as substantive areas of urban planning are addressed.

CP 4030 – City and Technology: This course places urban infrastructure technology within the larger context of planning and development. The social and economic aspects of these systems are highlighted.

CP 4040 – City in Fiction and Film: Examines images and perceptions of the urban environment as portrayed in literature and cinema. Explores the social, economic, and cultural contexts that impact on conception of the city.

CP 4105 – Land Conservation: Considers the distinctive American view of land and history of the conservation movement, then discusses the why and how of modern land conservation.

CP 4510 – Intro to Geographic Information Systems: Provides a basic understanding of the tools for collecting, storing, and analyzing spatially distributed data. Basic issues of software design and application are covered.

CP 4541 – Environmental GIS: Focuses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) to environmental problems and highlights the types and sources of data appropriate to those applications.

CP 4811 – Ending Homelessness: Innovation and Collaboration: Explores the root causes and systemic challenges of homelessness. Through inquiry-based learning and exposure to innovative practices, students will engage with real-world solutions and meet leaders driving impactful change in the field.

CP 4813 – Sustainable Development Planning in Puerto Rico: Explores sustainable development resilience in Puerto Rico through classroom learning, fieldwork, and community projects with a study abroad during spring break.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Geographic Information Systems and Computing: This course focuses on the technical elements of geographic information systems (GIS) and it uses the open-source software QuantumGIS (QGIS). Topics/skills: spatial data formats, projections, mapmaking, combining datasets, spatial operations, and processing rasters.  

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Cities of Tomorrow: This course explores how the forces shaping 21st-century cities compare to the dynamics that shaped cities of the past and present.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Economic Development Planning: Policy introduction to local economic development planning, examining theory, process and practice, international and regional factors, public and private roles.  

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Design Smart Urban Systems: Integrates data analytics, systems science, and urban design. Covers theories, methods, modeling tools, and case studies in the context of smart cities.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Urban Data Science: Explores the intersection of data analytics, big data, and artificial intelligence in the context of urban environments. 

CP 6025 – Advanced Planning Methods: Analytical methods in planning including inferential statistics, linear regression, and analysis of variance and how they are applied to planning problems.

CP 6035 – Theory & History of Planning: Examines theories of planning and the public interest, the intellectual and historical development of the planning profession, and the roles of planners within political systems.

CP 6036 – Community Dynamics & Engagement: Study of theories and dynamics of community-building, with a focus on working in communities, equity, and inclusive community engagement.

CP 6055 – Planning Studio: Analysis and preparation of alternatives for an existing neighborhood, community, or region. Emphasis on application of planning skills in a real-world situation.

CP 6190 – Intro to Climate Change Planning: This course equips students with the knowledge and methods necessary to develop the next generation fo state, local, corporate, and enterprise climate action planning.

CP 6233 – Sustainable Urban Development: Introduces students to the theory and practice of sustainability as applied to the built environment at scales from the site to the mega-region.

CP 6514 – Introduction to GIS: Introduces students to spatial analysis using geographic information systems. Fundamentals of software design and geographic data are covered.

CP 6542 – Transport and GIS: Transportation data models, data processing, modeling, and service delivery in geographical information systems.

CP 6545 – Climate Change Analytics: Analytical methods in planning including inferential statistics, linear regression, and analysis of variance and how they are applied to planning problems.

CP 6581 – Programming for GIS: Teaches fundamental programming skills for geoprocessing and data presentation in a geographic information system environment. The primary languages used are Python and Javascript.

CP 6591 – GIS Professional Seminar: Provides MSGIST students with a bridge from the academic world to the professional GIS world.

CP 6612 – Community Development: This course will examine neighborhood-based efforts, public policy, trends and practices that have shaped community development in American inner city communities since 1950.

CP 6630 – Government and Housing Markets: Examination of the operation of local housing markets and national, state, regional, and local housing policies.

CP 6640 – Real Estate Development Methods: Application of the development process, market and financial feasibility analyses, and public policy to large development projects. Extensive use of case studies involving professional developers.

CP 6701 – Urban Transportation Planning: Examination of the operation of local housing markets and national, state, regional, and local housing policies.

CP 6704 – Intro to Global Development: Introduces the goals, theories and key institutional actors involved in Global Development.

CP 6834 – Urban Design Policy: Urban design policymaking and its implementation including an analysis of the behavioral basis for policies that promote quality in built form.

CP 6850 – Public Health and the Built Environment: Examines how cities and neighborhoods can have both positive and adverse effects on human health and produces recommendations to improve these outcomes.

CP 6960 – Urban Analytics Capstone Prep: Students prepare to execute a major professional project using urban analytics methodologies and communicate the project results in written, graphic, and public presentation formats.

CP 6962 – Urban Analytics Capstone: Students plan and execute a major professional project using urban analytics methodologies and communicate the project results in written, graphic, and public presentation formats.

CP 7000 – Master’s Thesis: Provides students with an opportunity to pursue advanced research under the guidance of a faculty committee.

CP 8012 – PhD Foundations Seminar: Incoming doctoral students reflect upon research, assess opportunities afforded by doctoral education, and develop a plan of study for the program.

CP 8022 – PhD Seminar in Research and Pedagogy: Students conceptualize and share ongoing research, develop professional and pedagogical skills, and explore issues of student and career development.

CP 8200 – Advanced Planning Theory: Seminar on planning theory, including philosophy of science, political philosophy, and ethical theory. The course explores the theoretical basis for planning as a social activity.

CP 8853 – Special Topics in GIS: Geovisual Analytics: Topics of current interest in geographic information systems: Geovisual Analytics.

CP 8873 – Special Topics: Urban Design: Smart City Workshop: Integrates data analytics, systems science, and urban design. It covers theories, methods, modeling tools, and case studies in the context of smart cities.  

CP 8883 – Special Topics: Intro to Urban Analytics: By the end of the course, students will have a practical understanding of how data and advanced analytical techniques can be used to enhance city planning and management.

CP 8883 (CP 6322) – Special Topics: Transportation Decisions: Review of methods employed by transportation planners to estimate and predict travel flows, design transport systems, and inform local, regional and national investment decisions.

CP 8990 – Applied Research Paper: Requires students to demonstrate their ability to organize and execute professional-level work in consultation with a faculty member. 

CP 8999 – Doctoral Dissertation Preparation

CP 9000 – Doctoral Dissertation

CP 2233 – Sustainable Urban Development: This course introduces students to the theory and practice of sustainability as applied to the built environment at scales from the site to the megaregion.

CP 4010 – Foundations of Urban and Regional Development: The course describes the economic function of cities and the significant factors that shape their growth and development.

CP 4020 – Intro to Urban and Regional Planning: Provides an overview of the planning of cities and metropolitan regions. The legal and historical context as well as substantive areas of urban planning are addressed.

CP 4190 – Intro to Climate Change Planning: This course equips students with the knowledge and methods necessary to undertake the next generation of state, local, corporate, and enterprise climate action planning.

CP 4310 – Urban Transportation: Designed to introduce the fundamentals of urban transportation planning and policy and is applicable to students in a variety of concentrations of study. The purpose of the course will be to acquaint students with transportation planning as a profession and the types of projects that transportation planners are required to conduct.

CP 4510 – Intro to Geographic Information Systems: Provides a basic understanding of the tools for collecting, storing, and analyzing spatially distributed data. Basic issues of software design and application are covered.

CP 4545 – Climate Change Analytics: Analytical methods in planning including inferential statistics, linear regression, and analysis of variance and how they are applied to planning problems.

CP 4610 – Intro to Real Estate Investment: Subjects include attributes of real property, value determinations, appraisal, investment analysis, market analysis, asset management, and public aspects.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Public Health and Built Environment: Examines how cities and neighborhoods can have both positive and adverse effects on human health and produces recommendations to improve these outcomes.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Government and Housing Markets: Examination of the operation of local housing markets and national, state, regional, and local housing policies.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Transportation Decisions: Review of methods employed by transportation planners to estimate and predict travel flows, design transport systems, and inform local, regional and national investment decisions.

CP 4813 – Special Topics: World Cities: World Cities planning, policy and technology to address climate change, growth, etc...  

CP 4813 – Special Topics: Transport and GIS: Transportation data models, data processing, modeling, and service delivery in geographical information systems.