DRAFT 2 SEPTEMBER 2016_CORRECTED

LAND USE AND PHYSICAL PLANNING

URP 573 FALL 2016, 1044
Wednesday 1:00 3:50, Hayes 401
Professor G. William Page, Ph.D.
Office Hours: Wens 8:30-11:00 and by appointment, Hayes 234
Telephone: 829-5330, email: gpage@buffalo.edu
Teaching Assistant: Tu Dam Ngoc Le
Office Hours 225 Hayes Hall: (9-10 Tues or 3-4 Thurs) and by appointment
Telephone: 770-9938 email: tudamngo@buffalo.edu
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
This course will strive to introduce and familiarize students with physical and land use planning ideas and
methods with two primary objectives: (1) to prepare MUP graduates to take entry level professional planning
positions focused on land use planning, and (2) to prepare MUP graduates to take entry level professional
planning positions as professional planners with a focus on general planning or any of the other planning
specializations who will interact with government officials, other professionals with whom they will collaborate,
and the public; all of whom will expect an urban planner to have land use planning expertise. Land use planning
jobs are usually the most prevalent entre level professional planning jobs in the USA and other countries. In
many countries land use planning, sometimes called spatial planning, is the entire content of the field of urban
planning.
This course is designed to prepare students to be qualified applicants for planning positions and provide the
skills to perform well as professional land use planners as they gain the experience needed to supplement their
educations and progress in their professional careers. While this course has a primary focus on land use
planning as practiced in the USA, a secondary objective of the course is to explore international approaches to
land use planning to introduce alternative methods to influence or regulate the use of land used in in other
countries.
Cognitive Processes: This course teaches students to reflect on the balance of regulating land for the
public good versus private property rights, and the legal, political, ethical, and social implications of plans
to achieve that balance.
Primary teaching/learning modalities:
1. Instructor presentations.
2. Required Readings from a text book and articles presenting examples of the issues under discussion from
current events.
3. Recommended readings that provide greater depth or a wider array of examples of how the issues under
discussion occur in actual events.
4. Fishbowl discussion designed to force all students to actively discuss the issues in the readings and
presents the opportunity for students to present diverse experiences and national perspectives.
5. Having students prepare for exams and then provided detailed in-class review of exams.
Primary forms of assessment:
1. Two equally weighted in-class exams.
2. Plan Evaluation assignment in which students use a protocol to individually evaluate the Land Use Plan of
a local municipality and write a professional report on their evaluation.
3. A Land Use Memo due near the end of semester: students select a current real-life case of a local land
use controversy or issue, research the topic, attend a local planning, zoning, or related board meeting on
the land use issue and write a professional memo that responds to a detailed template.
4. Student participation in class and in fishbowl discussions.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: The intended outcomes are:
1. to learn the plan making process for land use plans, master plans, and other plans;
2. to provide understanding of the legal framework and techniques of regulating the use of land;

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3. to learn the techniques to use the control of land use to promote sustainable development, economic
vitality, the quality of life of residents, and affordable housing, while minimizing displacement and
gentrification;
4. to improve both verbal and written professional communication skills;
5. to prepare students to find employment as professional planners and in related fields.
ASSUMPTIONS:
Students are assumed to have an interest in both the natural and the human environments and a motivation to
learn to make plans that use land use and physical planning to improve quality of life in cities, towns, and rural
areas. This course requires that students will be seated and have completed all of the assigned readings for the
session when class starts promptly at 1:00 PM. Attendance, late arrival, and lack of preparation for class will be
recorded and will influence the final grade for this course. Students are expected to know how to access the
UBLearns course folder for this course where revisions of the syllabus, readings, current news and
communications to the class can always be accessed.
COURSE CLASS SCHEDULE
Week 1

Aug. 31 First half of class: Introduction to PD573: Land Use and Physical Planning,
organization of the course, overview of course topics, assignments, and grading.
Second half of class: Land Use Change, the Natural Environment
class discussion of these Required readings.

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Required readings:
Foley, J. et al., 2005. Review of Global Consequences of Land Use, Science, Vol. 309 (5734): 570-574.
JUSTIN GILLIS 2016. Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, NYT, MARCH 22.
L. FODERARO 2015. Bronx Planting Caps Off a Drive to Add a Million Trees, NYT, OCT. 20.
I. JOHNSON 2014. China Releases Plan to Incorporate Farmers Into Cities, NYT, MARCH 17.
N. St. Fluer 2016. Two-Thirds of the World Faces Severe Water Shortages, NYT, 12 February.

Recommended readings:
1. Presentations by Stewart Brand and by Robert Neuwirth, on the TED Radio Hour Podcast, found on the
audio file: The Future of Cites that is listed on UBLearns as a Recommended Reading. Double click on
the title, The Future of Cites, to start the audio.
2. JOANNA FOSTER 2012. A Plea for Public Lands, NYT, July 13.
3. Carolyn Kousky 2012. Rethink Development Patterns, NYT, July 11.
4. M. SANTORA and K. GREGORY 2013. Plan to Protect City From Future Storms, NYT, June 11.
5. UN-Habitat 2012. TAPPING THE POTENTIAL: GRASSROOTS IN LAND POLICY Implementation.
6. Rutherford Platt, 2004. The Meanings and Uses of Land, PP. 3-27, in Land Use and Society, revised
edition, Washington D.C: Island Press.
7. Johannes F. Linn, 2008. Urbanization and Growth: Some Practical Implications of the Growth
Commissions Findings, The Brookings Institution, MAY 27.

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Sept. 7
First half of class: Land Use Planning and Sustainability
Required readings:
Framing the Land Use Planning Process, pp. 3-30 in text.
Shaping Plans through the Sustainability Prism Model, pp. 35-55 in text.
Benjamin Herman 2010. Embracing Sustainability in Community Plans, Planning, April.
Eduardo Porter 2015. A Call to Look Past Sustainable Development, NYT, APRIL 14.
Nathan Cherry and Kurt Nagle 2010. Essential Elements of Sustainable Design, Planning, March.
The Economist 2016. Urbanization: An ambitious plan for social change has run into trouble, March 26.

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First fishbowl discussion of the following Recommended readings:

The Economist 2014. Urbanization, 21 June.
JUSTIN GILLIS 2012. Rising Sea Levels Seen as Threat to Coastal U.S., NYT, March 13.
NYT, Editorial 2012. Sustainably Feeding a Changing World, April 6.
J. GILLIS and F. BARRINGER 2013. As Coasts Rebuild and U.S. Pays , NYT, Nov. 18.

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5. Justin Gillis 2014. What Does Today Owe Tomorrow? NYT, 28 April.
Second half of class topic:
Good Plans
Discussion of Plan Quality assignment due Monday 21 September.
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Required Readings:
What Makes a Good Plan? pp. 59-84 in text.
Comprehensive Plan Sustainability Standards, APA Plan Standards Working Group, Aug. 6, 2013.
U.S. EPA 2001. Executive Summary of Our Built and Natural Environments.
Klaus Deininger 2003. Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction, pp. xvii xlvi.
Edward Glaeser, 2008. Land use policies, Wall Street Journal, July 28, Page R6.

Second half fishbowl discussion of the following Recommended readings:

1. W. Lyles and M. Stevens 2014. Plan quality evaluation 1994-2012, JPER 34 (4).
2. D. Godschalk and W. Anderson 2012. Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan, Planning
Advisory Services report, UB Library.
3. O. KAPLAN and M. ALBERTUS 2012. Colombias Rebels and Land Reform, op-ed, The International
Herald Tribune, October 10.
4. Tim Smedley 2010. Back to the future with Victorian-style model towns, The Guardian, 7 August.
5. STEVEN ERLANGER 2010. Utopian Dream Becomes Battleground in France, NYT, August 8.
6. C. SCHUETZE 2011. Hip Cities That Think About How They Work, NYT, Nov. 17.
7. What Would Jane Jacobs Say? 2011.
http://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/culture/what-would-jane-jacobs-do/

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Week 3 Sept. 14 First half of class: Human Factors in Plans

Required Readings:
Population and Economy, pp. 117-146 in text.
J. GILLIS and C. DUGGER 2011. U.N. Forecasts 10.1 Billion People by Centurys End, NYT.
R. Jackson and C. Kochitzky 2010, Creating a Healthy Environment: The Impacts of the Built Environment on
Public Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
C. Miller 2014. Where Young College Graduates Are Choosing to Live, NYT, OCT. 20.
Edward Glaeser, 2010. Why Do Cities Decline, Chapter 2 in Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention
Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier.
VISHAAN CHAKRABARTI 2014. Americas Urban Future, NYT, APRIL 16.

Fishbowl discussion of the following Recommended readings:

1. Howard Frumkin 2002. Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Public Health Reports, May-June, vol. 117.
2. S. TAVERNISE 2012. Well-Educated Flock to Some Cities, Leaving Others Behind, NYT, May 30.
3. W. Frey 2012. Demographic Reversal: Cities Thrive, Suburbs Sputter, June 29.
http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/06/29-cities-suburbs-frey.
4. J. DePARLE et al. 2011. Older, Suburban and Struggling, Near Poor Startle the Census, NYT, Nov. 18.
5. JACK HEALY 2012. Tapping Into the Land, and Dividing Its People, NYT, Aug. 15.

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Second half of class topic: Land Use Legal Issues

Presentation by Professor Page followed by class discussion of these readings.
Required Readings:
Oakland Gospel Choir Draws Nuisance Complaint, Faces $500 A Day Fine, October 14, 2015.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/10/14/oakland-gospel-choir-nuisance-complaint/
Eric Freyfogle 2003. The Many Elements of Owning Land, PP. 11 36 in The Land We Share: Private
Property and the Common Good, Island Press, 2003.
NYT Editorial, 2010. Common Sense and Private Property, 17 June.
K. TAYLOR and T. KAPLAN 2014. New York Towns Can Prohibit Fracking, , NYT, JUNE 30.
S. LEAVENWORTH and KIKI ZHAO 2016. In China, Homeowners in a Land of Doubt, NYT, MAY 31.

Second half fishbowl discussion of the following Recommended readings:

1. Pruetz, R. and N. Standridge 2009. What Makes Transfer of Development Rights Work? Success Factors
from Research and Practice, JAPA, vol. 75 (1) p. 78-87.

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2. V. McConnell, E. Kopits, and M. Walls 2006. Using Markets for Land Preservation: Results of a TDR
Program, Journal of Environmental Planning & Management 49 (5): 631- 652, in AP Lib.
3. ROBIN FINN 2013. The Great Air Race, NYT, 22 Feb.
4. C. BAGLI 2013. $40 Million in Air Rights Will Let East Side Tower Soar, NYT, Feb. 25.
Week 4 Sept. 21 First half of class: Film: Private property vs. the public trust, Prof. Arthur Miller,
Harvard Law School, followed by a discussion of the film.
Plan Quality assignment due at 1:00 today at the start of class
Second half of class: Eminent Domain
Presentation by Professor Page followed by class discussion of these readings.
Required readings:
1. Daniel A. Friedlander, 2005. Kelo and Lingle:Two Landmark Takings Decisions Courtesy of the U.S. Supreme
Court, Practicing Planner, American Institute of Certified Planners.
2. Terry Pristin, 2006. Developers Cant Imagine a World Without Eminent Domain, NYT, Jan. 18.
3. PATRICK McGEEHAN 2009. Pfizer to Leave City That Won Land-Use Case, NYT, Nov. 12.
4. J. ECHEVERRIA 2013. A Legal Blow to Sustainable Development, Op-Ed, NYT, June 26.
5. S. DEWAN 2014. Eminent Domain: A Long Shot Against Blight, NYT, Jan. 11.
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Second half fishbowl discussion of the following Recommended readings:

SHAILA DEWAN 2013. A City Invokes Seizure Laws to Save Homes, NYT, July 29
A. Lazo 2013. U.S. warns against mortgage seizures, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug.
R. Hockett 2013. An Eminent DomainMortgage Debt, Current Issues in Economics and Finance 19 (5).
KATHY MULADY 2008. Edith Macefield held her ground, P-I REPORTER, June 18.
JESSE McKINLEY 2013. A Property Fight in the Adirondacks, NYT, October 31.
CHARLES V. BAGLI 2010. $3 Million Deal Ends a Holdout in Brooklyn, NYT, April 21.
L. KAUFMAN and D. FROSCH 2011. Eminent Domain Fight Has a Canadian Twist, NYT, Oct. 17.
Week 5
Sept. 28 First half of class: Environmental Factors in Plans
Guest presentation on South Buffalo Brownfield Opportunity area, by John Fell, City of Buffalo Office of Strategic
Planning; Dennis Sutton, City of Buffalo BOA Coordinator; Peter Cammarata; Buffalo Urban Development
Corporation; David Stebbins, Buffalo Urban Development Corporation.
Required Readings:
Environmental Factors in text, pp. 148 196.
City of Buffalo 2014. River Bend Master Plan Report.
U.S. EPA 2001, Effects of Different Development Types , Our Built and Natural Environments.
LESLIE KAUFMAN 2011. A City Prepares for a Warm Long-Term Forecast, NYT, May 22.
Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program Fact Sheet
South Buffalo BOA Unique Places, City of Buffalo, 2013.
BUFFALO GREEN BELT, City of Buffalo, 2013.
Recommended readings (no fishbowl discussion this class):
Welcome to Buffalo Brownfield Opportunities, http://buffalobrownfieldopportunities.com/
T.J. Pignataro 2015. Cheektowaga agrees to curbing sewage overflows, Buffalo News, Nov. 1.
G. HARRISJAN 2014. Beijings Bad Air Would Be Step Up for Smoggy Delhi, NYT, 25Jan.
KIRK SEMPLE 2011. On Flood Plain, Pondering Wisdom of Rebuilding Anew, NYT, Sept.
B. STRAUSS and R. KOPP 2012 Rising Seas, Vanishing Coastlines, NYT, Nov. 24.
John Eligon 2013. 2,500 Pigs Join Debate Over Farms vs. Scenery, NYT, December 27.
R. Margerum 2011. Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning and Management, MIT Press,
416 P., ISBN-10: 0262516217, ISBN-13: 978-0262516211.
New York Times Editorial 2011. How Not to Plan for the Future , 20 April.
C. SCHUETZE, 2011. A Bold Plan, Long Thought Out, to Remake Hamburg, NYT, Nov. 17.
KIRK JOHNSON 2011. A Town Envisions the Future on Its Own Terms, NYT, Nov. 17.
SRUTHI GOTTIPATI 2012. Delhis Water Woes Make the Heat Worse, NYT, July 5.
DYLAN WALSH 2012. A Daunting Emissions Quest for U.S. Cities, NYT, April 26.
J. Carey 2011. AFTER THE DELUGE, Scientific American, Dec2011, Vol. 305 Issue 6, p72-75.

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Second half of class: Plan Making Process

Required Readings:
The Plan-making Process, pp. 291-313 in text.
Duluth Land Use, NYT, 2005.
M. Sommer 2015. Outer Harbor popularity places spotlight on housing, Buffalo News, August 20.
C. BAGLI 2015. New York City Declines to Fight in Court for Complex Near Citi Field, NYT, AUG. 19
Second half fishbowl discussion of the following Recommended readings:
P. Krugman 2015. Americas Un-Greek Tragedies in Puerto Rico and Appalachia, NYT, AUG. 3.
KAREEM FAHIM 2009. Old Feuds Resurface in a Brooklyn Rezoning Fight, NYT, 4 August.
New York Times Editorial 2011. How Not to Plan for the Future , 20 April.
C. SCHUETZE, 2011. A Bold Plan, Long Thought Out, to Remake Hamburg, NYT, Nov. 17.
KIRK JOHNSON 2011. A Town Envisions the Future on Its Own Terms, NYT, Nov. 17.
L. KAUFMAN and K. ZERNIKE 2012. Activists Fight Green Projects U.N. Plot, NYT, Feb. 3.
Week 6
Oct. 5
First half of class: Land Use Factors and Techniques
Required Readings:
Land Use Systems, pp. 197-222 in text.
Rutherford Platt, 1996. Land Use Zoning: Origins and Practice, chapter 7 in Land Use and
Society: Geography, Law and Public Policy, pp. 215 -249.
CHARLES BAGLI 2010. Resurrecting a Village by Buying Up Main Street, NYT, 11 Nov.
DWIGHT GARNER 2011. The Last Townie, NYT, March 18.
S. Dobbin 2011. Greg O'Connell helps Mount Morris, Democrat and Chronicle, April 18.
M. RYZIK 2012. Virginia Developer Is on a Mission to Revive His Town, NYT, July 24.
First half fishbowl discussion of the following Recommended Readings:
I. JOHNSON 2015. Chinese Officials Ease Strains on City Center, NYT, JULY 11.
R. Curran 2015. The battle for rural Ireland is worth winning, The Sunday Independent, 3 August.
DAVID BARBOZA 2010. State-Owned Bidders Fuel Chinas Land Boom, NYT, August 1.
M. NAVARRO 2012. City Council Is Set to Encourage Greener Buildings, NYT, April 26.
MIREYA NAVARRO 2012. Greening the Citys Zoning Rules, NYT, May 1.
Land Use Tools NY, NYS Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, 2008.
T. WILLIAMS 2013. Blighted Cities Prefer Razing to Rebuilding, NYT, Nov. 12.
Adirondacks get largest land preservation in 118 years,
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/search/land%20use/, accessed 8 April 2014
Second half class topic: Infrastructure Planning and Land Use
Transportation and Infrastructure Systems, pp. 225-263 in text.
RUSSELL SHORTO 2011. The Dutch Way: Bicycles and Fresh Bread, NYT, July 30.
P. HOCKENOS 2013 Where Share the Road Is Taken Literally, NYT, April 26.
ELISABETH ROSENTHAL 2011. Across Europe, Irking Drivers Is Urban Policy, NYT, June 26.
Mikayla Bouchard 2015.Transportation Emerges as Crucial to Escaping Poverty, NYT, MAY 7.
The Economist 2015. Cities are starting to put pedestrians and cyclists before motorists, Sept. 5.

Second half fishbowl discussion of the following Recommended readings:

1. FARHAD MANJOO 2015. Tipping Point in Transit, NYT, JUNE 10.
2. The Economist 2013. The future of transport, Aug 17.
3. C. Lienberger and M. Alfonzo 2012. The economic promise of walkable places, Brookings, May.
4. C. LEINBERGER 2012. Now Coveted: A Walkable, Convenient Place, NYT, May 25.
5. JOHN MARKOFF 2012. Incentives for Drivers Who Avoid Traffic Jams, NYT, June 11.
6. MIREYA NAVARRO 2011. New Tactics and Billions to Manage City Sewage, NYT, Oct. 19.
7. J. BRODY 2013. Commutings Hidden Cost, NYT, October 28.
8. J. GOSE 2014. A Trail Helps a Dallas Neighborhood to New Development, NYT,13 May.
008 Survey of Land Use Planning
Week 7 Oct. 12
First half class topic: Review of Plan Quality assignment, discussion of good
plans, and questions about Exam # 1 on wens. 19 Oct.

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Second half class topic: Areawide Land Policy

Assignment due today: one-paragraph description of the Land Use Memo issue, and the date of the
official hearing of the issue that you will attend for the topic of your graded land use memo.
Required readings:
The Areawide Land Policy Plan, pp. 315-345 in text.
J. KURLANTZICK, 2008. Back to Nature and Ready for Guests in the Great Plains, NYT, June 8
C. Swope 2006. Smart Decline, Governing, November.
T. Leonard, 2009. US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-inorder-to-survive.html, accessed 15 June.
P. APPLEBOME 2016. Detroits 2-Speed Recovery, , NYT, AUG. 12.

Second half fishbowl discussion of these Recommended Readings:

1. R. Shorto 2014. How to Think Like the Dutch in a Post-Sandy World, NYT, 14 April.
2. J. Schilling and J. Logan 2008. Greening the Rust Belt: A green Infrastructure Model for Right Sizing
Americas Shrinking Cities, JAPA 74 (4): 451-466, in AP Lib.
3. J. Hollander 2011. Can a City Successfully Shrink? Evidence from Survey Data on Neighborhood Quality, Urban
Affairs Review 47(1) 129-141.
4. B. SCHEER 2012. The Utah Model: Lessons for Regional Planning, Brookings Mountain West, Dec.
5. MALIA WOLLAN 2013. California and Nevada Agree on Tahoe Development, NYT, 13 Jan.
6. J. Epstein 2014. Buffalo outer harbor redevelopment moves forward, Buffalo News, April 7.
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Oct. 19

First half of class: Film: LAND: and how it gets that way, followed by discussion

Second half of class: Growth Management

Presentation by Professor Page
Required Readings:
Victoria Transport Policy Institute 2015. Analysis of Public Policies that Unintentionally Encourage and
Subsidize Sprawl, March 19. (http://bit.ly/1EvGtIN )
R. Reich 2013. Income inequality ruined Detroit, NYT, July 22.
PAUL KRUGMAN 2013. Stranded by Sprawl, Op-Ed Columnist, NYT, July 28.
C. DOUGHERTY 2016. How Anti-Growth Sentiment, Zoning Laws, Thwarts Equality, NYT, JULY 3.

Fishbowl discussion of the following Recommended Readings:

Are Oregons strict planning rules stifling growth, The Economist, July 27, 2013.
Sandra Olivetti Martin 2010. Maryland's Second Generation of Smart Growth, Planning, March.
T. Prohaska 2014. Land Conservancy Niagara Escarpment protection, Buffalo News, May 29.
Adirondacks get largest land preservation in 118 years.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/search/land%20use/,accessed 8 April 2014.
5. Urban sprawl (in China), The Economist, April 19, 2014.
6. K. Benfield 2011. Can Ontario Deliver North America's Best Smart Growth Plan, NYT, Jan. 26.
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Week 9
Oct. 26 First half of class:
Place-Phoenix: The Urban Desert

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In class viewing followed by a discussion of the film: Making Sense of

Second half of class: Residential Communities.

Required readings:
Communitywide land Use Design: Residential Communities Habitats, pp.383-420 in text.
Allison Arieff 2009. What Will Save the Suburbs? NYT, June 11.
ALLISON ARIEFF 2014. Can Paradise Be Planned, NYT, APRIL 18.
C. HUGHES 2015. When Public Housing Is Across the Street, NYT, JUNE 26.
RONDA KAYSEN 2015, Leasing Begins for New Yorks First Micro-Apartments, NYT, NOV. 20.
Towards a Liveable London, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcNFbINwuA0

Fishbowl discussion of the following Recommended Readings:

1. L. ALVAREZ 2009. Suburbs See a Challenge as Residents Grow Older, NYT, December 4.
2. ALLISON ARIEFF 2010. Home for Life, NYT, August 5.

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ALLISON ARIEFF 2012. The American Dream: Phase II, NYT, June 18.
K. JACOBS 2012. A Texas Developer Attempts to Upend the American Subdivision, NYT, Feb. 1.
IAN JOHNSON 2013. New China Cities, NYT, November 9.
A. Arieff 2012. How Small Is Too Small, NYT, Oct. 19.
gtn-admin 2013. 173-Square-Foot Micro Apartments, http://www.gtnbuildingmaterials.com/newsletterarchive/december-2013/173-square-foot-micro-apartments/ accessed 18 Dec.
Week 10
Nov. 2 First half of class: In class viewing followed by a discussion of the film:
NorthEast Passage: the inner city and the American dream
Second half of class: Gentrification and Affordable Housing
Required readings:
1. Communitywide Land Use Design: Residential Communities Habitats, pp.383-420 in text.
2. Editorial Board 2016. Saving a Mixed-Income New York, NYT, 11 March
3. The Economist 2016, Clever reforms can reduce the power of NIMBYs and cut housing costs, Apr 16.
4. THE EDITORIAL BOARD 2015. Affordable Housing vs. Gentrification, NYT, NOV. 27.
5. Hctor Tobar 2015. Viva Gentrification! NYT, MARCH 21.
6. M. NAVARRO 2015. Mayor de Blasios Public Housing Plan , NYT, MAY 18.
7. M. Chaban 2016. In Wealthy Pocket an Innovative Approach to Affordable Housing, NYT, APRIL 25.
8. Where Can the Middle Class Afford to Buy a Home? http://www.trulia.com/trends/2013/10/middle-class/;
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Fishbowl discussion of the following Recommended Readings:

MIREYA NAVARRO 2015. In Chelsea, a Great Wealth Divide, NYT, OCT. 23.
RONDA KAYSEN 2016. Priced Out of My Childhood Home, NYT, MAY 13.
A. LOWREY 2014. Cities Advance Their Fight Against Rising Inequality, NYT, APRIL 6.
C. BAGLI 2014. Plan Expedited for Affordable Housing , NYT, 26 June.
PETER APPLEBOME 2011. In Woodstock, Values Collide Over Housing, NYT, Sept. 14.
M. KIMMELMAN 2014.Glimpsing a Lost Paris, Before Gentrification, NYT, MARCH 9.
T. WILLIAMS 2014. Cities Help Those Threatened by Gentrification, NYT, MARCH 3.
A Review of "Climbing Mt. Laural." Stuart Meck, JAPA, 2014.
R. Silverman, K. Patterson, J. Lewis 2013. Chasing a Paper Tiger: Evaluating Buffalos Analysis of
Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, Current Urban Studies. Vol.1, No.3, 28-35.

Week 11
Nov. 9 First half of class: Employment and Commercial Centers
Field Trip of the Medical Campus from noon to 1:00 and campus tour and guest presentation by
Mark McGovern, Project Manager, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Inc.
Required readings:
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Communitywide Land Use Design: Employment and Commercial Centers, pp. 347-377 in text.
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Four Neighborhoods, One Community, http://www.bnmc.org/explore/four-neighborhoods-onecommunity/

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The Economist 2016. Americas most successful cities are leaving the rest behind, March 12.
H. Davis 2010. Planned medical campus has begun to exert its pull, Buffalo News, January 30
The Economist 2016. New businesses are breathing life into old industrial cities, 5 March.
S. Watson 2016. Medical Campus finds site for second Innovation Center, Buffalo News, July 1.
N. SCHWARTZ 2016. Why Corporate America Is Leaving the Suburbs for the City, NYT, AUG. 1.

No fishbowl discussion of these Recommended Readings:

PETER S. GOODMAN 2008 A Splash of Green for the Rust Belt, NYT, 1 November.
PATRICK McGEEHAN 2010. Trying to Breathe Life into a Canyon of Concrete, NYT, 21 June.
DAVID STREITFELD 2009. For Pittsburgh, Theres Life After Steel, NYT, Jan. 7.
SHAILA DEWAN 2009. Despite Odds, Cities Race to Bet on Biotech, NYT, June 10.
SUE HALPERN 2011. Mayor of Rust, NYT, February 11.
AMY CORTESE 2011 Buying Underwear, Along With the Whole Store, NYT, Nov. 12.
JOSEPH BERGER 2012. Retail Limits in Plan for the Upper West Side, NYT, Feb. 2.
STEPHANIE CLIFFORD 2012. Retailers Idea: Think Smaller in Urban Push, NYT, July 25.
L. MOZINGO, Op-Ed Contributor 2011. To Rethink Sprawl, Start With Offices, NYT, Nov. 25.

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10. K. Chapple et al. 2011.The planning of arts districts, City, Culture, and Society, Vol. 1, #4: 225-234.

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Second half of class: Small Area Plans

Required readings:
Small-area Plans, pp. 421-445, in text.
MICHAEL KIMMELMAN 2011. Treasuring Urban Oases, NYT, Dec. 2.
GEORGI KANTCHEV 2013. Plan Aims to Enliven Pariss Financial District, NYT, 30 July.

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Second half of class fishbowl discussion of these Recommended Readings:

BETH GREENFIELD 2010. Cape Cod Residents Keep the Chain Stores Out, NYT, June 8.
DAVID W. CHEN 2010. New York Seeks Limits on Art Vendors in Parks, NYT, April 16.
JILL CAPUZZO 2011. Altitudes a Variable, Roominess a Constant, NYT, April 29.
JENNIFER MEDINA 2012. Los Angeles Puts a New Park at Its Heart, NYT, Aug. 18.
L. FODERARO 2013. Battle for the Soul of a Park, NYT, March 1.
V. CHANDRASHEKHAR 2013. Central Park Dreams Trigger a Battle in Mumbai, NYT, 13 June.
Week 12
Nov. 23 First half of class: Mixed-Use Development Plans
Guest Presentation by Gary Black, AICP, Assistant Planning Director, Town of Amherst Planning
on the planning process for the former Gun Club property on Maple Avenue.

Required readings:
1. Urban land Institute 1987. Introduction and History in Mixed-Use Development Handbook.
2. Schutz, J. 2004. Getting to the Bottom of Mixed Use Development, Planning, 70: 16-21.
3. Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, 2005. Making the Case for Mixed Income and Mixed Use
Communities. Journal of Property Management.
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No fishbowl discussion of these Recommended Readings:

Stuart Fox 2007. Urban living catching on in 'burbs , Real Estate Weekly, April 11.
S. Gannon 2007. Mixed Use with Grape Views, NYT, September 13.
TERRY PRISTIN 2009. From Meat Shop to Mixed-Use Complex, NYT, December 15.
JAVIER HERNANDEZ 2010. Plans for Ground-Floor Bar Make Residents Hit Roof, NYT, June 4.
JAMES BARRON 2013. In Area Already Filled With Bars, NYT, October 21.
K. Huelsmann 2011. Moritorium on Mixed Use Developments, Jackson Hole Dailey, Feb. 22.
Mixed-use development on a former Brownfield site, 2005. J. of Property Management vol. 70, # 3, Nov/Dec, p.
8-16.

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Second half of class: Density of Development

Required readings:
Local Government Community Center for Livable Communities 2007. Compact Development for More Livable
Communities.
AMY OLEARY 2012. How Many People Can Manhattan Hold, NYT, March 1.
TED Radio Hour Podcast: Brilliant Designs to Fit More People in Every City, found at URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM_hPk4rmMM.
FRED BERNSTEIN 2011. Rethinking Ways to Divide Living Space, NYT, Nov. 10.
JIM YARDLEY 2011. In One Slum, Misery, Work, Politics and Hope, NYT, Dec. 28.

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Second half of class fishbowl discussion of these Recommended Readings:

ELISABETH ROSENTHAL 2009. In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars, NYT, May 11.
New York Times Editors, 2009. Car-Free in America? NYT, May 12.
CARA BUCKLEY 2010. That Cheap, Roomy Loft Can Now Be a Legal One, NYT, July 25.
C. BAGLI 2012. Bloomberg Pushes a Plan to Let Midtown Soar, NYT, Oct. 6.
R. STERN 2013. A Modern City in East Midtown, OpEd, NYT, April 21.
CARA BUCKLEY 2013. Laments of Lost Sunlight in New York, NYT, Dec. 19.

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Week 13

Nov. 30

First half of class: Exam 2 on terms from weeks 7 13

Second half of class: Zoning and Form-Based Codes

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Presentation and video followed by discussion of these readings

Required readings:
DAVID DUNLAP 2016. New Yorks First Zoning Resolution, NYT, JULY 25.
Form-Based Codes: Implementing Smart Growth,
http://www.lgc.org/freepub/docs/community_design/fact_sheets/form_based_codes.pdf, accessed 25 Sept.
2011.
Form-Based Zoning: A Blueprint for Buffalos Future http://www.buffalosmartcode.org/
Buffalo News Editorial, 2010. Rethinking the City, 3 May.
A Preview of Buffalos New Zoning, Nov. 2013.
http://www.buffalogreencode.com/documents/A_Preview_of_Buffalo%27s_New_Zoning.pdf, Nov.
Buffalo Green Code: New_Directions_Tech_Report, June 4, 2012.
Second half of class fishbowl discussion of these Recommended Readings:
1. KATE TAYLOR 2015. Manhattan Rezoning Fight Involves a School , NYT, OCT. 27.
2. Sonia Hirt, 2013. Home, Sweet Home: American Residential Zoning , JPER, 33 # 3, 292-309.
3. E. Talen 2009. The Historical Underpinnings of Form-Based Codes, JAPA 75 (2): 144-160.
Week 14

Dec. 7

last day of classes

Oral presentation of Land Use memos

(all Land Use Memos due by the start of class today).
The text for this course is: Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition, by Philip Berke et al., 2006, ISBN13: 978-0-252-03079-6. This book is available at UB Medical Book Store, Harriman Hall room 20 East
(lower level), 716-645-6400. You may be able to find this text book available on-line at a lower price. The
required readings to supplement the text will be on UBLearns. Some of the readings are also on reserve
in the Architecture & Planning library.

Texts:

EVALUATION OUTCOMES:
EVALUATION OUTCOMES:
The course grade will include the following five components:
Fishbowl and class participation
15%
Plan Quality assignment
20% due Sept. 21 at 1:00 PM
Exam on terms 1
20% Oct. 19 material weeks 1-7
Exam on terms 2
20% Nov. 30 material week 8 -13
Land Use Memo
25% due 7 December at 1:00 PM

outcomes 1, 2, 3. 4, and 5
outcomes 1, 2, 3. 4, and 5
outcomes 1, 2, and 3
outcomes 1, 2, and 3
outcomes 1, 2, 3. 4, and 5

Each student will be expected to have read the assigned material, prepared questions on the readings, and to
fully participate in the class discussions.
The two exams will be require identification of short terms and their context taken from the required readings,
presentations, films and class discussions that you will be asked to identify in a short paragraph. Alternatives for
a missed exam because of an excused absence will be arranged on case by case basis.
Grades of incomplete for the course are given only under extraordinary conditions and must be negotiated
before classes end. Late papers will receive dramatically reduced grades based on the number of days they are
late.
If you have a disability (physical, learning, or psychological) that may make it difficult for you to carry out
the course work as outlined, and/or requires accommodation, please contact the Office of Disability
Services (25 Capen Hall: 645-2608) and inform your instructor immediately."
Grading Policy:
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Superior work that is significantly better than the normal range of performance expected
High quality work that is better than the normal range of performance expected
Professionally qualified work that is at the high end of the normal range of performance expected

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F

Professionally qualified work within the normal range of performance expected

Professionally qualified work at the low end of the normal range of performance expected
Professionally qualified work at the lowest end of the normal range of performance expected
Work deemed acceptable for academic credit but below the normal range of performance
expected
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The School of Architecture and Planning, in order to maintain its computer labs and other unique teaching
environments, charges all of its majors a standard fee approved by the State University of New York. Nonmajors are assessed a partial fee based upon the number of School of Architecture and Planning credit
hours taken in any one semester. Non-major students taking General Education or Honors Program
courses are not charged a School fee.
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to deal effectively with instances of academic dishonesty. Students are responsible for the honest
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