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.
URP 502
U.S. Planning Institutions and Law
Winter 2021
Instructors:
Richard Norton
Term: Winter 2021
Class Number: 502
Credits: 3
Required: Yes
Elective: No
Meets: Class instruction mode: Hybrid
Mon, Wed 10:00-11:30am 1360 A&AB
Course Brief: