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CE 512

The Comprehensive Urban Planning Process

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Most recent updates: 6 January 2016

Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering
Spring Semester 2016 --- MWF 8:30 AM, Room 2123HAMP

Instructor:
Professor Jon D. Fricker
Room G167C CIVL, Phone 49-42205, email ''
Office Hours: TTh 9:30 to 10:30 AM or by appointment

Course Description

CE512 uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches to exploreurban planning issues and methods. Land use controls and public capital investmentare identified as the most effective ways to implement a land use plan. Urban design is examined at various levels – from regions down to plazas. Data sources, forecasting methods, land use models, and economic analysis methods provide quantitative support to traditional planning activities.

Prerequisites

A familiarity with basic statistical methods is helpful, but not necessary. Guidance will be provided in the course.

Course Goals

By the end of CE512, the student will be able to ...

  • Describe and explain the forces that shape the urban form and affect the urban activity system.
  • Identify the key elements of the urban planning process.
  • Apply analytical techniques that support the planning process.
  • List the two most important tools to implement a land use plan, and give examples.

Learning Objectives

By the end of CE512, the student will be able to ...

  • Find and properly manipulate demographic and economic data.
  • Explain when to use trend projection and demonstrate how to use it (im)properly.
  • Carry out a Land Use Suitability Analysis.
  • Argue both sides of key legal cases that affect land use.
  • Conduct a Nominal Group Process session.
  • Conduct a Charrette.

Course Requirements

  1. Integrity. See “Academic Dishonesty” below.
  2. Professionalism.
  • Clarity in written work: state assumptions, cite references, etc.
  • Arrange absences and anticipate problems in advance. Use phone or electronic mail to notify me. If you leave a telephone message, include your phone number. Unexcused absences will be noted. Quizzes missed because of an unexcused absence will receive a score of zero.
  • If you come to the classroom after class has started, please enter quietly, but you must write an explanation for your late arrival and give it to the instructor before you leave the classroom.
  • Because professionalism involves proper social behavior, baseball caps and similar headgear may not be worn in the CE512 classroom.

  1. Preparedness.
  • Ten percent of an assignment's full value will be deducted for each day that assignment is overdue. For example, a 20-point assignment loses 2 points per day.
  • For homework assignments (cf. projects) submitted after graded assignments are returned to class or after the solutions are posted, no points can be earned.
  • Late submittals will be graded for your benefit, even after no points are possible.

Elements of Course Grade

  1. (50 percent) Homework, quizzes, and possible group projects. Some may involve data collection and analysis, use of computer programs, etc. A student’s quiz average = 1 homework grade.
  2. (25 percent) Midterm exam: Open book and notes. Tuesday8 March 2016, 8:00-9:30PM, Room B071 ARMS
  3. (25 percent) Final exam: Open book and notes. Week 16

Required Materials
Textbook: Levy, John M., Contemporary Urban Planning, Tenth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2013
Supplemental Notes: You must purchase a set of "SNotes" for CE512 from CopyMat Services, Inc., Chauncey Hill Mall, 743-5995.
Other Materials: Handouts, as appropriate
Class Schedule
See The main page of the course website has a link to this schedule or find it on Blackboard. Download the schedule and save it for your convenience. It has links to the webpage that has been created for each class and to other useful info. The schedule is subject to change. /

Policies

General Course Policies

  1. Addressing student questions. I am happy to answer questions – either by email or in my office -- about what is being covered in class or on assignments, but please do not ask themat the last minute. Some questions are better handled in person rather than by email. There may also be occasions in which I will not be able to answer your question by email immediately.
  2. Students arriving late. If you come to the classroom after class has started, please enter quietly, but you must write an explanation for your late arrival and give it to the instructor before you leave the classroom.
  3. Class participation. After the first week, I will call upon students and expect them to contribute, based on the reading assignment for that day (or previous days), so student participation is not optional.

Academic Dishonesty

The Student Code of Honor applies. See especially Part 5, Section III-B-1 of University Regulations - A Reference Book for Students, Staff, and Faculty. Another good source of guidance can be found at Statement of Integrity and Code of Conduct.

Purdue prohibits "dishonesty in connection with any University activity. Cheating, plagiarism, or knowingly furnishing false information to the University are examples of dishonesty." [Part 5, Section III-B-2-a, University Regulations] Furthermore, the University Senate has stipulated that "the commitment of acts of cheating, lying, and deceit in any of their diverse forms (such as the use of substitutes for taking examinations, the use of illegal cribs, plagiarism, and copying during examinations) is dishonest and must not be tolerated. Moreover, knowingly to aid and abet, directly or indirectly, other parties in committing dishonest acts is in itself dishonest." [University Senate Document 72-18, December 15, 1972]

Attendance

Arrange absences and anticipate problems in advance. Use phone or electronic mail to notify me. If you leave a telephone message, include your phone number. Unexcused absences will be noted. Quizzes missed because of an unexcused absence will receive a score of zero. The University policy for attendance is shown below.

Students are expected to be present for every meeting of the classes in which they are enrolled. Only the instructor can excuse a student from a course requirement or responsibility. When conflicts or absences can be anticipated, such as for many University sponsored activities and religious observations, the student should inform the instructor of the situation as far in advance as possible. For unanticipated or emergency absences when advance notification to an instructor is not possible, the student should contact the instructor as soon as possible by email, or by contacting the main office that offers the course. When the student is unable to make direct contact with the instructor and is unable to leave word with the instructor’s department because of circumstances beyond the student’s control, and in cases of bereavement, the student or the student’s representative should contact the Office of the Dean of Students,

Grief Absence Policy for Students

Purdue University recognizes that a time of bereavement is very difficult for a student. The University therefore provides the following rights to students facing the loss of a family member through the Grief Absence Policy for Students (GAPS). GAPS Policy: Students will be excused for funeral leave and given the opportunity to earn equivalent credit and to demonstrate evidence of meeting the learning outcomes for missed assignments or assessments in the event of the death of a member of the student’s family.

Violent Behavior Policy

Purdue University is committed to providing a safe and secure campus environment for members of the university community. Purdue strives to create an educational environment for students and a work environment for employees that promote educational and career goals. Violent Behavior impedes such goals. Therefore, Violent Behavior is prohibited in or on any University Facility or while participating in any university activity.

Students with Disabilities

Purdue University is required to respond to the needs of the students with disabilities as outlined in both the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 through the provision of auxiliary aids and services that allow a student with a disability to fully access and participate in the programs, services, and activities at Purdue University.
If you have a disability that requires special academic accommodation, please make an appointment to speak with me within the first three (3) weeks of the semester in order to discuss any adjustments. It is important that we talk about this at the beginning of the semester. It is the student's responsibility to notify the Disability Resource Center ( of an impairment/condition that may require accommodations and/or classroom modifications.

Emergencies

In the event of a major campus emergency, course requirements, deadlines and grading percentages are subject to changes that may be necessitated by a revised semester calendar or other circumstances beyond the instructor’s control. Relevant changes to this course will be posted onto the course website or can be obtained by contacting the instructors or TAs via email or phone. You are expected to read your @purdue.edu email on a frequent basis.

Nondiscrimination

Purdue University is committed to maintaining a community which recognizes and values the inherent worth and dignity of every person; fosters tolerance, sensitivity, understanding, and mutual respect among its members; and encourages each individual to strive to reach his or her own potential. In pursuit of its goal of academic excellence, the University seeks to develop and nurture diversity. The University believes that diversity among its many members strengthens the institution, stimulates creativity, promotes the exchange of ideas, and enriches campus life.

Purdue University prohibits discrimination against any member of the University community on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or ancestry, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, disability, or status as a veteran. The University will conduct its programs, services and activities consistent with applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations and orders and in conformance with the procedures and limitations as set forth in Executive Memorandum No. D-1, which provides specific contractual rights and remedies.

Emergency preparedness. Please review the following procedures:

  • For any emergency call 911.
  • If we hear a fire alarm we will immediately evacuate the building and proceed to Stadium Mall Drive.
  • Do not use the elevator.
  • If we are notified of a Shelter in Place requirement for a tornado warning we will shelter in the lowest level of this building away from windows and doors. Our preferred location is the Basement level of HAMP.
  • If we are notified of a Shelter in Place requirement for a hazardous materials release we will shelter in our classroom shutting any open doors and windows.
  • If we are notified of a Shelter in Place requirement for a civil disturbance such as a shooting we will shelter in a room that is securable, preferably without windows.