URP 502, Section 1

U.S. Planning Institutions and Law
Winter 2025
Instructors: Richard Norton
Term: Winter 2025
Section: 1
Class Number: 21948
Credits: 3
Required: Yes
Elective: No
Meets: Mon, Wed, 10:00-11:30am 2108 A&AB
Course Brief: Download

This course provides a general overview of the legal aspects of urban and regional planning, including institutional structures, sources of and limits on legal authority, and traditional and evolving approaches to land use and development control. The principle focus of the course will be on the relationships between planning as a public policy-making process and the laws that authorize, implement, and constrain planning initiatives.

Note: This course is pre-approved as a MUD Directed Elective in the Policy, Law, and Institutions category.

Approved for the Real Estate Graduate Certificate.