Civil Engineering 8202:
Networks and Places: Transportation, Land Use, and Design
This course provides students with an overview of land use and transportation planning in the United States, focusing on how to use planning tools, polices or other infrastructure investments to design effective places and networks. Its mission is twofold, to introduce students to:
- practices and debates in various substantive areas,
- different players involved in decisions, their motives, behaviors, and decisions,
- the interrelationships between each of the players, especially when evaluating public policy options.