UPCD 630 Urban Information and Institutional Systems

This course will provide students with an understanding of administrative and information systems that are directly involved with urban planning and community development initiatives. Students completing this course will gain the ability to evaluate the configurations of government, private-sector and non-profit stakeholders and information sources and technologies that they control in order to manage relationships across stakeholders and decision makers, and disparate information systems, that are essential to the success of planning initiatives. Students will be prepared to engage in hands-on planning at the community and institutional level, and to identify appropriate administrative and data infrastructures consistent with time and resources limitations.

Prerequisite(s): UPCD 630

3 Credit(s)