DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING, POLICY, AND DESIGN
202 Social Ecology
I: (949) 824-3480
World Wide Web: http://www.seweb.uci.edu/ppd
Kenneth S.
Chew, Interim Department Chair
Faculty
M. Victoria Basolo: Housing and community development policy within the context of governmental relations
Victoria A. Beard: Planning in developing countries, community-based planning, poverty reduction, planning theory and population studies
Marlon G. Boarnet: Urban economics, urban planning, urban economic development
Scott A. Bollens: Ethnicity and urban planning, urban growth policy, metropolitan governance, intergovernmental approaches to planning
Kenneth S. Chew: Social demography, epidemiology and public health
Ross F. Conner: Evaluation research and social psychology, health promotion
Kristen Day: Urban issues in environment-behavior studies
Joseph F. DiMento: Planning, land use and environmental law, use of social science in policy making, legal control of corporate behavior
Martha Feldman: Organization theory and behavior, stability and change in organizations, decision making and information processing
Ajay Garde: Urban design, urban form, sustainable growth
Helen Ingram: Public policy, U.S.-Mexico relations, environmental resource management
Mireille Jacobson: Labor economics, health economics, economics of crime and drug policy
Raul Perez Lejano: Collaborative planning, environmental decision making, planning theories
Richard Matthew: International relations, environmental policy, ethics
Sanjoy Mazumdar: Environmental studies and design, organizational analysis, management and planning, and social and behavioral aspects of architecture
Daniel Stokols: Health impacts of environmental stressors, environmental design and social behavior
Luis Suarez-Villa: Innovation and technology, economic and social development, regional analysis
Rudolpho D. Torres: Urban political economy, Latino politics
Affiliated Faculty
Hoda Anton-Culver: Genetic epidemiology
Jan K. Brueckner: Economics
Thomas C. Buchmueller: Health policy and promotion
Paul J. Feldstein: Economics of health care
David Igler: History
Richard McCleary: Criminal justice, research methodology, statistics
Michael G. McNally: Travel behavior, transportation systems analysis
David S. Meyer: Sociology
Mark P. Petracca: Political science
Jean-Daniel M. Saphores: Environmental and natural resource economics and policy, transportation economics, planning and policy, quantitative methods
David A. Smith: Urbanization, comparative historical sociology, political sociology, world-system analysis
Kerry D. Vandell: Real estate
Elaine Vaughan: Environmental assessment, risk perceptions, research methodology, social psychology
The Department of Planning, Policy, and Design utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of urban and regional planning, public policy issues, and the built environment. The Department faculty devote their scholarly and teaching efforts to theory-driven and empirically oriented urban research and their interests include urban and community development, environmental policy, health promotion and policy, and urban design and behavior. The faculty focuses on education in urban, social, public policy, and environmental problems.
The Department offers the Ph.D. degree in Planning, Policy, and Design; the Master of Urban and Regional Planning professional degree (fully accredited by the national Planning Accreditation Board); and undergraduate minors in Urban and Regional Planning and in Environmental Design. The Department's graduate degree programs feature innovative teaching often involving students in community projects, and a significant degree of accessibility by students to faculty members.
The 16 full-time faculty members in the Department are productive and influential scholars. The Department's teaching, research, and graduate training utilize UCI's proximity to both urban centers and planned communities, as well as the University's location within the dynamic and multicultural Southern California and Pacific Rim regions. Collaborative academic and research ties are maintained with UCI's Institute of Transportation Studies, Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, Newkirk Center for Science and Society, Focused Research Group on International Environmental Policy, Center for Community Health, Community Outreach Partnership Center, Center for Unconventional Security Affairs, Center for Organizational Research, and the Urban Water Research Center.
The common mission linking the Department's undergraduate, master's, and doctorate-level instruction and faculty research efforts is to bring applied research to the cause of bettering individuals, neighborhoods, communities, and regions. Southern California has grown dramatically over the past four decades and will soon become the nation's largest urban corridor. The challenges to maintain the quality of life, provide employment opportunities, and reduce the deep socioeconomic disparities of this bi-national and multicultural metropolitan region are enormous. Extremely diverse, multiethnic communities face the necessity of solving their problems in ways that are acceptable to their populations. Older central city areas that are vital to the region face issues of social and economic sustainability. The need to create employment opportunities, through the application of new technologies in industries and services, will be a constant feature of an urban region undergoing such population increases. At the same time, urban growth and transportation will have to meet increasingly stringent environmental regulations that can safeguard the population's health and quality of the diverse natural environments. The urban design and landscape of most communities stand to be reshaped as never before, as the building stock ages and the need to redevelop intensifies.
The Department is grouped into four major clusters, each addressing sets of important issues to contemporary society. Faculty members and students who study urban and community development examine contemporary planning approaches to managing local, community, and regional development and explore the spatial dynamics of urbanization in diverse settings and how public policy can guide urban and regional growth to balance environmental and economic concerns. Faculty members and students engaged in design-behavior research investigate the interrelationships of people and their socio-physical environments at all scales, from micro to macro, with emphasis on urban design and community-scale issues. Faculty members and students who examine environmental policy focus on the environment and natural resources as important policy and
planning issues and provide a clear understanding about how politics, economics, ethics, and institutions affect planning and policy choices. Finally, faculty members and students who study health promotion and policy investigate issues at the interface between (1) urban planning and health policy and (2) community and individual health. They examine the public welfare, psychological, and health implications of social and physical planning, and the techniques and goals of public health policy making.
Information on the graduate program begins on page 432.
Urban and Regional Planning Minor Requirements
Nine courses (36 units): Planning, Policy, and Design 4 or Environmental Analysis and Design E8; Planning, Policy, and Design 107; and seven additional upper-division courses selected from Planning, Policy, and Design 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 112, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 166, 168, 169, 170, 172.
NOTE: A maximum of three courses may be counted toward both the minor in Urban and Regional Planning and the majors in Environmental Analysis and Design or Social Ecology.
Environmental Design Minor Requirements
Eight courses (32 units): Planning, Policy, and Design 151, 152, 153, and five additional courses selected from Planning, Policy, and Design 104, 133, 136, 154, 155, 156, Art History 145A, 145B, 145C.
NOTE: A maximum of three courses may be counted toward both the minor in Environmental Design and the majors in Environmental Analysis and Design or Social Ecology.
Courses in Planning, Policy, and Design
LOWER-DIVISION
4 Introduction to Urban Studies (4). Lecture, three hours. Introduces the substantive areas, concepts, and tools in the field of urban studies. Acquaints students with physical, environmental, social, economic, and political dimensions of cities. Examines the challenges facing cities, including poverty, sustainability, development, globalization, and others.
45 AIDS Fundamentals (4). Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Considers the biological and sociological bases of the AIDS epidemic. Topics include the history of AIDS, current medical knowledge, transmission, risk reduction, and how the community can respond. Same as Biological Sciences 45 and Public Health 80. (II)
UPPER-DIVISION
100 Special Topics in Urban Studies (4). Lecture, three hours. Special topics courses are offered from time to time. Course content varies with interest of the instructor. Prerequisite: in some cases, consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E100U.
URBAN AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
101 Urbanization and Social Change (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines interactions between social structure and physical space: (1) the contemporary evolution of cities and their hinterlands in the U.S.; (2) patterns of urbanization in the Third World; and, as background for understanding these developments, (3) the re-emergence of cities in Medieval Europe. Prerequisite: Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E144U.
102 Urban Inequality (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines structural inequality and the influence that urbanization has in affecting race, ethnic, and class relations. Explores how race/ethnicity, class, urban space, housing, economic development, public education and land policy intersect in cities, both historically and today. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E128U.
103 Comparative Urbanization in a Developing World (4). Lecture, three hours. Provides an introduction to comparative urbanization in developing countries. First introduces students to the geography, history, and theories of urbanization, and then reviews urban planning, public policy, and governance.
104 Urban Sociology (4). Lecture, three hours. Overview of theoretical, substantive, and policy issues in urban sociology. History of urbanization, the school of human ecology, and recent trends regarding urbanism. Time is devoted to understanding the causes and possible solutions to urban problems. Prerequisite: Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E104U.
105 California's Population (4). Lecture, three hours. Surveys California's human population (past, present, and future) and its interactions with trends in society, government, the economy, and the environment. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E123U.
106 Technology and Economic Development (4). Lecture, three hours. Covers importance of technology for urban economic and social development. Concepts of technological innovation and diffusion, and their relevance for cities and metropolitan areas. Principles of networks and their importance for diffusion. Relationship of technology with urban infrastructure and metropolitan form. Prerequisites: Social Ecology 10 and 13 or equivalent. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E142U.
107 Urban and Regional Planning (4). Lecture, three hours. Important substantive areas, concepts, tools in the field of urban and regional planning. Topics include: forces that have historically guided and are currently guiding U.S. urbanization; land use, economic development, housing and community development, environmental planning; legal, environmental, governmental contexts. Prerequisite: Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E107U.
108 Cities and Transportation (4). Lecture, three hours. The relationship between urban areas and transportation systems. Economic analysis of cities, transportation and urban form, highway congestion, environmental impacts of transportation, public transit, land use and transportation, and political influences on transportation planning. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E148U.
109 Housing and Urban Development Policy (4). Lecture, three hours. Surveys public policy issues and develops analytic techniques in the areas of housing and urban development. Examines a range of policy topics including housing assistance to low- and moderate-income families, housing finance system, incentives for economic development and neighborhood preservation. Recommended: previous course work in economics. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E151U.
110 Urban Economic Development Policy (4). Lecture, three hours. Theoretical and practical perspectives on local economic development policy. Integrates economic, planning, political perspectives. Overview of economic role of cities and metropolitan areas. Specific development issues include link between taxes, regulation, job growth; redevelopment planning; evaluating economic development policy. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E159U.
111 Strategies of Health Promotion (4). Lecture, three hours. Examination of strategies for promoting physical and mental health at community, organizational, and individual levels. Interventions designed to promote healthier lifestyles, organizational structures, and environmental conditions. Criteria for monitoring cost-effectiveness of these programs. Prerequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E8 or Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Same as Psychology and Social Behavior P138H. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E175.
112 Foundations of Community Health (4). Lecture, three hours. A social ecological framework for understanding community health is presented. Measures of individual and community health are compared, and the influence of personal and environmental factors on individual, group, and population health is examined. Community health promotion strategies also are discussed. Prerequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E8 or Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Same as Psychology and Social Behavior P126H. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E179U.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
131 Environmental Sustainability I (4) W. Lecture, three hours. Provides an introduction to sustainability from different points of view; historical, scientific, political, ethical, and economic. Same as Earth System Science 180. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E114U.
132 Environmental Sustainability II (4) S. Lecture, three hours. Investigates how sustainability can be implemented in a variety of contexts including water, energy, non-renewable resources, biodiversity, and urban policy, and also how it could be measured. Same as Earth System Science 182. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E116U.
133 Environmental Law (4). Lecture, three hours. Environmental law as combination of traditional legal principles and newly created statutes, rules, and decisions applied to environmental protection. Investigates roles of courts, legislature, executive branch and administrative agencies, and private citizens attempting to regulate environmental quality. Federal and state laws utilized. Prerequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E8 or Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Same as Criminology, Law and Society 128. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E105U.
134 Human Ecology (4). Lecture, three hours. Will population growth doom the human race? Examines the influence of Malthus' First Essay on Population (1798) on current models of population-environment interactions and the implications of these models for action. Prerequisite: Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E106U.
135 Environmental Impact Analysis (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines the environmental impact assessment process. Topics include impacts associated with biophysical and socioeconomic environmental effects, whether direct, indirect, or cumulative. Analysis of project alternatives, mitigation of impacts, methodologies for measuring impacts. Legislation and case law. Examples from case studies. Prerequisite: Planning, Policy, and Design 4 or consent of instructor. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E129.
136 Global Environmental Issues (4). Lecture, three hours. While many agree that environmental problems threaten humankind, there is much disagreement over the nature of these threats and how to address them. Examines global environmental issues from various perspectives in order to provide answers to these questions. Same as International Studies 120 and Political Science 143D. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E132U.
137 International Environmental Management (4). Lecture, three hours. Network of intergovernmental organizations (the United Nations, in particular) and international nongovernmental organizations in the field of environmental management. Prerequisite: Criminology, Law and Society C7. Same as Criminology, Law and Society C129 and International Studies 123. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E137U.
138 Environmental Politics and Policy (4). Lecture, three hours. Provides a multifaceted foundation for the development of environmental problem-solving and policy-making skills. Examines "nature" from a range of historical and cultural perspectives. Links socio-ecological stress theories to a range of landscapes and contemporary debates. Current air, water, and land policies. Same as Political Science 141A. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E145U.
139 Water Resource Policy (4). Lecture, three hours. Examination of contemporary water problems worldwide, with particular attention to the competing demands for water in the western U.S., and water demand by the poor in developing countries. History and analysis of U.S. water policies at local, state, and federal levels. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E155U.
140 Ethics and International Relations (4). Lecture, three hours. Introduces students to the dynamic field of ethics and international relations. A variety of traditional and emerging perspectives are examined, skeptical views are discussed in detail, and arguments are illustrated with current cases. Same as Political Science 146A. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E190C. (VII-B)
URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
151 Environmental Psychology (4). Lecture, three hours. Impact of the physical environment on individual and group behavior. Three basic concerns examined: (a) environmental determinants of behavior at the individual and interpersonal level; (b) social planning and urban design; and (c) methodological approaches to the study of environmental issues. Prerequisites: Environmental Analysis and Design E8, Social Ecology 10, or Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Same as Psychology and Social Behavior P109. Formerly Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E108U.
152 Cultural Ecology and Environmental Design (4). Lecture, three hours. Introduction to cultural ecology and environmental and architectural design. With a view to understanding people's relationships with their built environments, the basic elements of architecture, architectural analysis, and cultural analysis are covered. Examines values in design and design for multicultural societies. Prerequisite: Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E102U.
153 Elements of Environmental Design (4). Lecture, three hours. Basic elements of environmental design such as scale, proportion, rhythm, color, sound, lighting, surfaces, texture, architectural definition of spaces, volumes, massing volumetric analysis, solids and voids, and cultural aspects of design. Excitement and creativity in design, imageability. Prerequisites: Planning, Policy, and Design 4 and 152. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E135U.
154 Design and Behavior (4). Lecture, three hours. Introduces students to United States urban design and the significance of design for human well-being. Focuses on Southern California urban environment. Prerequisite: Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E138U.
155 Urban Design Principles (4). Lecture, three hours. Introduction to principles of urban design and its applications. Study of contemporary and traditional theories of urban design formulated to improve physical characteristics of built environment to facilitate an enhanced quality of life. A variety of case studies are discussed. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E160U.
156 Urban Design and Graphics Studio (4). Lecture, three hours. Introductory course organized around a variety of assignments to encourage learning by design in a studio setting. Students work on design projects and graphic representation assignments to learn practical aspects of urban design. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E191U.
GOVERNANCE
166 Urban Public Policy (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines why and how urban policies are enacted and carried out in contemporary U.S. cities and regions. Topics include: evolution and organization of city governments and policymaking over the past century; who has the power to direct public policy and control how cities develop. Prerequisites: Social Ecology 10 and Planning, Policy, and Design 4. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E109U.
167 Public Policy and Management (4). Lecture, three hours. Exposes students to the best management practices that assure effective planning and implementation of policies and programs in government, business, and nonprofit sectors. Includes guest lecturers who are proven leaders in the four principal institutions of a community: business, education, government, and nonprofit. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E146U.
168 Ethics and Public and Private Life: Advanced Seminar (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines ethical issues in public and private life by considering traditional moral theory in light of specific moral dilemmas, such as environmental policy, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, social welfare, and aid to other countries. Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of the upper-division writing requirement or consent of instructor. Same as Political Science 138B. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E154U.
169 Public Policy Analysis (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines different approaches to the analysis of public policy with differing notions of what constitutes good policy, the role of government, and how citizens participate in policy-making. Suggests a policy-design perspective which builds upon other frameworks but concen
trates on goals, implementation structures, tools, and rationales. Prerequisites: Planning, Policy, and Design 4 or Environmental Analysis and Design E8, and Planning, Policy, and Design 166. Same as Political Science 121E. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E157U.
170 Health Policy (4). Lecture, three hours. Considers social and economic aspects of health and disease in the United States. What are the proper roles of the individual, community, and government in improving health and health care? International comparisons will be made wherever possible. Same as Public Health 122. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E189U.
171 Community Response to Terrorism (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines risk perceptions and behaviors of individuals and societies in response to terrorism. Topics: unconventional and emerging threats, psychology of terror, coping and resilience, risk communication, media effects on psychological responses, public health preparedness for mass-casualty terrorism. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C. Same as Psychology and Social Behavior P191P. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E190B.
172 Latino Metropolis (4). Lecture, three hours. Explores the processes of Latino urbanization in the United States and the spatialization of Latino identities, particularly in the context of Southern California with selected comparisons drawing from other cities. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 154. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E190U. (VII-A)
173 Technology Analysis (4). Lecture, three hours. Covers concepts of interest for policy-making and technology analysis, dealing with invention, innovation, and the socioeconomic impacts of new technologies. Comparative assessments of new technologies and their national and regional impacts on organizations, sectors, and activities. Prerequisites: Social Ecology 10 and 13. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E192U.
174 Decisions, Games, and Other Public Policy Analytics (4). Lecture, three hours. A number of alternative approaches to policy analysis are taken up, beginning with the rational model and leading into postpositivist approaches, including studying institutional coherence, interpretive analysis, and others. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E193U.
175 Institutional Analysis: Studying Programs and Practices (4). Lecture, three hours. Study of the methods of examining institutions from macro, intermediate, and micro scales of analysis. Provides a wide range of skills for program analysis ranging from standard program evaluation to interpretive analytics. Prerequisites: upper-division standing and consent of instructor. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E194U.
176 Public Participation in the U.S. (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines decisions that shape the communities in which we live, work, and play. Explores early forms of citizen involvement, planning theories and models, mandated public participation after World War II, and opposition to local development projects.