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574 Course Descriptions/Urban Planning673. Design for Sustainable Transportation. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduce planning and design principles,techniques, and examples for achieving sustainable transportation; transit-oriented development, neotraditionaldesign, traffic calming, non-motorized travel, and smart growth; car sharing, parking pricing,location efficient mortgage, and alternative vehicles and fuel technologies. Prerequisite: Graduateclassification.674. Transportation System Analysis. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduces basic concepts and techniques of modeling,analyzing and solving problems in transportation systems planning, operations, management anddesign within a unified framework for transportation systems analysis; includes: disaggregate demandtheory and application, activity analysis and land use forecasting, network optimization stochastic processes,queuing models and simulation. Prerequisite: CVEN 672 or approval of instructor.675. Theory of Planning and Urbanism. (3-0). Credit 3. Theories of planning and urbanization in worldliterature; physical community design as expression of ideology and cultural value systems.676. Transportation Investment Decisions. (3-0). Credit 3. The course provides the graduate-level studentwith an overview of the elements of transportation investment decisions including transportationsupply, demand, finance, and economic impact.678. Applied Transportation Studio: Site Planning and Traffic Impact. (3-0). Credit 3. Practical overviewof urban planning and transportation topics including transportation-land use, functional classification,thoroughfare and land use planning, site planning, traffic impact analysis, access managementand site design. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.681. Seminar. (1-0). Credit 1. Reports and discussions of current research and selected topics in urban andregional planning. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.684. Professional Internship. Credit 1 to 8. Professional practice under approved arrangement with publicor private agencies.685. Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 6 each semester. Individual and group problems dealing with applicationof planning theory and practice. Opportunities to select foreign and domestic planning project ofspecial interest.689. Special Topics in... Credit 1 to 4. Selected topics in an identified area of urban and regional planning.May be repeated for credit.691. Research. Credit 1 or more each semester. Research for thesis or dissertation.693. Professional Study. Credit 1 to 6. Approved professional study project undertaken as the terminalrequirement for the Master of Urban Planning degree; preparation of a record of study summarizingrationale, procedure and results of the completed activity. Prerequisite: Approval of committee chair.Urban Sciencelaup.arch.tamu.edu(URSC)631. Foundations of Planning Thought. (3-0). Credit 3. Examines a series of foundational issues in planningand design theory; includes the definition of planning problems, rationality, modernism and postmodernism, the validation of value judgments, relations with future generations, multiculturalism andgender justice in liberal democratic societies. Prerequisite: Doctoral classification or approval of instructor.632. Structure and Functions of Cities and Regions. (3-0). Credit 3. Surveys the design, financial, natural,physical, political and social parameters that influence the development of cities and regions, includingpresentation of theories about cities and regions, organization of, planning to shape them, andpublic and private sector plans for structure and function of cities and regions. Prerequisite: Doctoralclassification or approval of instructor.641. Analytic Methods in Landscape and Urban Research I. (3-0). Credit 3. Explicitly address linkingtheory, measurement, data set development and data analysis issues critical for conducting research inurban and regional planning and landscape architecture. Prerequisites: Doctoral classification or approvalof instructor.642. Analytic Methods in Landscape and Urban Research II. (3-0). Credit 3. Provides a survey ofhands on experiences with advanced techniques and procedures related to conceptual measurement andoperational issues, data set development and manipulation and data analysis issues critical for conductingacademic research. Prerequisites: STAT 651, CARC 601, URSC 641, or approval of instructor.