Architecture and Urban Planning

• ARCH 360: Landscape Design and Site Planning (3) - Positive spaces and places of superior quality are the concern of this lecture course which is an overview of landscape design and thus includes components of history and theory as well as technical aspects of site analysis, planning, and design. Lectures and readings address a range of scales from house and garden to campuses, parks, and cities, and illustrate the effective combination of landforms, plant materials, landscape structures, lighting, water, and the sitting of buildings. Site engineering exercises cover aspects of contours, grading and road layout. Prerequisite: ARCH 114. LEC
• ARCH 628: Structure in Nature & Architecture (3) - The course deals with the3) historical development of structure, first in nature and then in architecture. In nature, the course discusses the evolution of structural materials, systems, connections and anchorage (foundations) in geological structure, botanical structure, endoskeleton structure, exoskeleton structure and insect architecture. The course then analyzes the growth of structure from anthropological structure through ancient and medieval structure to modern architecture. In these broad architectural periods in world history, the course examines the structural materials, structural behavior and construction of some of the important buildings that helped to define and delineate the architecture of their time. This course helps students to understand structural systems and their behavior, in a non-mathematical way, by relating the structural principles involved to our common experience of the world around us. The course will have every student do a research project on an assigned topic in geological structure, botanical structure, exoskeleton structure, insect architecture or anthropological structure. Enrollment Requirement Group 500-699 Undergraduate Level
• ARCH 661: Eighteenth- to Twentieth-century American landscape Design (3) - This course will explore eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century American landscape design including gardens, estates, rural cemeteries, campuses, suburbs, urban parks, and national parks, as well as the beginnings of landscape architecture as a profession. Topics of inquiry will include European contributions in landscape theory, practice, and aesthetics, and American adaptations in response to climatic, social, and political differences. An important focus will be whether one can look at a designed landscape and see the expression of an attitude toward nature. LEC
• ARCH 662: Twentieth-century American Landscape (3) - The purpose of this course is to investigate the relationships between the American culture and the resulting built and natural landscape. Issues of building types, public places, and land use arrangements will be studied from a socio-historical perspective. (Same as UBPL 662.) LEC
• ARCH 663: Drwn, Hmboldt & Chng ideas Lnds Ar (3) - The seminar explores the influence of the natural historians Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin on American writings in landscape architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The original texts of Humboldt (including Aspects of Nature and Cosmos) and Darwin (including On the Origin of Species and Insectivorous Plants), will be studied in conjunction with significant authors in landscape architecture including A. J. Downing, George Perkins Marsh, Frederick Law Olmsted, Horace William Shaler Cleveland, Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer, Jens Jensen, Garrett Eckbo, Daniel Kiley, and James C. Rose. The emerging ideas of conservation and ecology found in these works will also be examined. Enrollment Requirement Group 500-699 Undergraduate Level
• ARCH 680: Building with Intelligence (3) - This course is intended to be a broad course introducing basis concepts of sustainable design. It will introduce broad outlines of many of the crucial issues facing us in the next few decades. This course identifies how we can re-imagine the relationship between human beings and living systems. The order of the course will begin at a broad overview of our environmental dilemma, then focus upon community issues and end with a close look at green buildings and their systems. This course will include a series of lectures, required reading with written responses, visits to local examples of sustainable buildings and the development of research projects. LEC
• ARCH 681: Defining Community (3) - This course explores how a neighborhood is sustainable, or is not. Imbedded in our built landscape are constructs, which once revealed, offer us insight into a community's values and underlying intentions. We will engage neighborhoods in Lawrence, Kansas, and other community neighborhoods. This seminar course will provide a format for discussion and testing observations of patterns in neighborhoods. Our intent will be to describe the detailed patterns for neighborhoods, houses, and gardens, thereby increasing an understanding of how people inform and are informed by their neighborhoods. This course will include a series of lectures, required reading with written responses, visits to a variety of neighborhoods and the development of research projects. LEC
• ARCH 754: Design Ethics (3) - This seminar will explore both Western and Eastern concepts of ethics and morality through readings, papers, discussion, and guest speakers. The role of ethics in providing guideposts for social and societal responsibility in design will be developed. LEC
• ARCH 764: Site Planning (3) - Graduate course that investigates issues of site planning in an urban context, design and management of urban spaces, and strategies for integrating nature and built environments. Review of history and theories of landscape designs. LEC

• UBPL 538: Environmental Planning Techniques (3) - Graduate course that investigates issues of site planning in an urban context, design and management of urban spaces, and strategies for integrating nature and built environments. Review of history and theories of landscape designs. LEC
• UBPL 565: Principles of Environmental Planning (3) - This course introduces students to the issues that planners and decision makers face as they strive to protect environmental resources, especially within the context of land use planning. Emphasis will be placed on the theoretical and policy considerations that guide the work of environmental planners. Meets with UBPL 765.
• UBPL 662: Twentieth Century American Landscape (3) - This course investigates the relationships between the American culture and the resulting built and natural landscape. Issues of building types, public places, and land use arrangements are studied from a socio-historical perspective.
• UBPL 715: "Community" in Neighborhood Planning and Design (3) - This course provides a place-centered approach for understanding and applying the idea of community to local neighborhood planning and housing design. The course explores social theories of community and how these have influenced housing types, site plans, and concepts for neighborhood development and design. The course also evaluates the interplay of social, environmental, and economic forces at the neighborhood level and their relationship to community development and well-being. Examples of topics covered in the course are the neighborhood unit plan; urban renewal and public housing; community organizing and empowerment; community development corporations; neighborhood associations; gated communities; New Urbanist neighborhood design; co-housing and housing cooperatives; and research methods including visual assessment, interviewing, participant-observation, and analysis of community plans and archival documents.
• UBPL 716: Community and Neighborhood Revitalization (3) - The focus of this course is on the social, physical and economic renewal of urban neighborhoods through the collaborative development and implementation of community and neighborhood revitalization plans. The course also will assess the means by which local government can best support community-based initiatives to redevelop urban neighborhoods. Students in the course will develop substantive knowledge of community and neighborhood revitalization techniques as well as applied knowledge on how to engage with a community client and develop a neighborhood revitalization plan. Prerequisite: UPBL 715 or permission of instructor.
• UBPL 730: Introduction to Land Use Planning (3) - Introduction to land use planning as a specialist activity. Analysis of major determinants of land use, micro and macro approaches to land use planning; external effects of the use of land; environmental and fiscal impact analysis; current policy issues and approaches to land use at the national, state, and local levels. Creation of a plan for a hypothetical growing community. LEC
• UBPL 738: Environmental Planning Techniques (3) - Same as UBPL 538 but gives graduate credit. Graduate students will have additional assignments.
• UBPL 739: Issues in Growth Management (3) - This course examines all aspects of growth management including its history, evolution, legal foundations, and application at the national, state, regional, and local level. It covers both theoretical issues and specific techniques such as adequate public facilities standards, impact fees, and urban growth boundaries. Impacts on affordable housing, economic development, social equity, and environmental conservation will also be discussed.
• UBPL 750: Introduction to Transporation Planning (3) - This course is a survey course covering multiple modes of transportation (planes, trains, buses, automobiles, bicycles, and walking). The field of transportation planning is examined within a policy analysis framework. Knowing the policy context and understanding how decisions are made will assist transportation planners in understanding the world in which they operate. In addition to the policy context, this course will focus on the technical knowledge transportation planners are expected to know like federal requirements, traffic modeling, and specific topics like bicycle and pedestrian planning and traffic calming.
• UBPL 765: Principles of Environmental Planning (3) - Same as UBPL 565 but gives graduate credit. Graduate students will have additional assignments.
• UBPL 773: Environmental Implementation (3) - This course emphasizes the details of successful implementation of environmental plans. While the particular focus (land, water, energy, etc.) may vary, the techniques and processes studied will be broadly applicable. Students will develop environmental plans using real-world data. Prerequisites: UBPL 765, UBPL 738, or consent of instructor.