Description
This course offers an opportunity to explore the subjects of urban sprawl, smart growth, new urbanism, urban revitalization, affordable housing, transportation planning, and a range of issues affecting urban design and environmental sustainability. Focusing on the experiences of a wide array of cities and nations in addressing the breadth of urban and regional planning concerns, the class will address the comparison of legal mechanisms addressing or affecting urban planning. The class will place special emphasis on the experience in Canada, the United States, and Europe, but will reflect the experiences from Asia, Central and South America. Unlike traditional law courses, this class uses a broad interdisciplinary, policy-driven approach to evaluating alternative legal mechanisms through a stimulating investigation that would appeal to economists, planners, geographers, social scientists, public administrators, and ecologists as well as students of the law and urban studies.
