MURP: Land Use & Physical Development Planning Specialization

The specialization in public and nonprofit management in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning provides students with skills that enable them to improve quality of life of communities through the effective analysis, planning and development of physical land use and related resources of their environments. Students with this area of specialization will likely become physical planners qualified to discharge a wide variety of assignments in town, county, city, and regional planning agencies, with private consulting firms, and with non-profit corporations

Courses:

Qualifying Electives
UAP 4374: Land Use & Environment
UAP 4854: Planning the Urban Infrastructure
UAP 5104: Urban & Regional Development Theory
UAP 5304: Land Use Planning
UAP 5434 Urban Development Project Studio
Land Analysis & Geographic Information Systems

UAP 5144: Computer Applications in Urban Planning & Management
GEOG 4084: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 4324: Algorithms in Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 4354: Introduction to Remote Sensing
GEOG 4384: The ARC/INFO Geographic Information System
GEOG 5104: Seminar in GIS/Remote Sensing
Land Development & Real Estate
UAP 4744: Principles of Real Estate & Development
BC 5014: Management of Interdisciplinary Functions in Construction
BC 5124: Land Development for Construction Facilities
AAEc 4754: Real Estate law
AAEc 4764: Real Estate Appraisal
FIN 4154: Real Estate Finance (consent)
HIDM 4984: Real Estate Economics & Market Analysis
LAR 5044: Land Analysis & Site Planning
Land Use Planning

UAP 4184: Community Involvement
UAP 4344: Law of Critical Environmental Areas
UAP 5194: Urban Growth Management
UAP 5314 Social Analysis of Land Use Planning
Urban Design
LAR 4214: Urban Landscape Design Studio (Pre: design Experience)
LAR 4234: Theory & Practice of Urban Design
Infrastructure Planning

UAP 4394: Community Renewable Energy Systems
UAP 5984: Urban Transportation Planning
CE 5624: Transportation & Land Use
CE/UAP 5644: Transportation Systems Planning
CPAP 5984: Transportation Policy

Programs