Gateway: Planning Action
11.201 · Urban Studies and Planning · Graduate · Fall 2007
Prof. Xavier de Souza Briggs
<p>This course introduces incoming students in the Master in City Planning (MCP) program to the theory and history of planning in the public interest. It relies primarily on challenging real-world cases to highlight persistent dilemmas: the power and limits of planning, the multiple roles in which planners find themselves in communities around the globe, and the political, ethical, and practical dilemmas that planners face as they try to be effective. As such, the course provides an introductio…
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