Instructor: Kirk Harris
This course seeks to introduce students to negotiation theory and practice and the strategies supported by the praxis as applied to one-to-one engagements and multiparty engagements using lecture, class discussion and simulation exercises.
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Every sustainable city needs to have a plan for meeting its energy needs more sustainably, by reducing the use of fossil fuels and reducing energy requirements through efficiency improvements. Denser cities are inherently more energy efficient, but real gains are possible, with a little planning.
Instructor: Lingqian (Ivy) Hu
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to transportation planning and GIS analysis methods in the U.S. context. This course focuses on the policies, models, and analysis methods associated with current planning practice. As such, it emphasized GIS applications. Students will learn the fundamentals of demand, supply and impact analysis.
Instructor: Bob Schneider
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is an increasingly popular transit service that has the potential to deliver high-quality public transportation at a moderate cost, attract development near stations, and connect diverse communities throughout urban regions. This course allows students to help create a vision for BRT in the Milwaukee region, including stations, dedicated bus lanes, and station-area development. It is a hands-on workshop that will produce professional products useful to government agencies and the general public.
Transportation Workshop: Bus Rapid Transit in the Milwaukee Region
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The communications and information activities of public relations in urban planning and public administration are different from public relations in the business and nonprofit sectors. There are several reasons why urban planners and public administrators have to engage in public relations, whether they like it or not. These are the democratic requirements of government, such as accountability and transparency. A second cluster of benefits relate to pragmatic management, namely using PR to help an agency accomplish its core mission more effectively.
Instructor: Carolyn Esswen
Research, design, and learn about the elements of urban design that create vibrant cities. Public spaces, complete streets, neighborhoods, and sustainable urbanism. Class topics range from historical development patterns to detailed designs. Course objectives include: increasing awareness of urban design characteristics and urban pattern of the built environment; explore urban design elements of neighborhoods based on past and current project examples; explore and understand different types of public spaces and streets; provide an opportunity to apply design strategies within a drawing exercise for a Milwaukee neighborhood.
Instructor: Bob Schneider
Safe, comfortable, and convenient opportunities for walking and bicycling are essential as communities transition from automobile-oriented to multimodal transportation systems. This course teaches practical pedestrian and bicycle planning skills, including facility design, safety analysis, data collection, and demand estimation, and challenges students to evaluate existing methods critically and develop ideas for improving practice. It includes guest speakers, a field trip, and several assignments, including redesigning a Milwaukee intersection to improve conditions for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Instructor: Nancy Frank
Groundwater, wastewater, drinking water, stormwater, flood water—it’s all one water, intimately connected in the geography of the watershed. Learn how to plan for clean and abundant water resources.
Instructor: Dave Flack, GISP
GIS is a useful tool for planners to conduct spatial analysis. This course describes the benefits of using GIS on projects and within organizations. It introduces students to fundamental spatial analysis concepts and allows students to apply these concepts in a structured GIS lab.
Instructor: Paul Vepraskas, GISP
This ‘hands on’ course shows students how to use GIS to solve common problems related to planning and government. It exposes students to a set of spatial analysis tools and gives students an opportunity to apply these tools using commercially-available GIS software.
Instructors: Bob Schneider
This course is a “capstone” in a series of GIS courses. Students use GIS with local data to solve a real problem or address a real issue raised by a client—a local government or other organization. It provides a structured approach to a GIS project, introducing management techniques that are necessary to shepherd a project from its conception through final completion. The course covers developing a project scope of work, working with a team, and explaining GIS concepts to practitioners who may have limited GIS knowledge.
793 Applied Projects in Urban Geographic Information Systems
Instructor: Paul Vepraskas, GISP
This course provides the theoretical background for how to develop GIS applications on the Internet. It also offers hands-on experience, allowing students to develop example Internet GIS applications.
Instructor: Lingqian (Ivy) Hu
The purpose of this course is to provide a basis for understanding transportation and land use planning in a broad context in geography, economics, institutions and politics. The first-half of this course is to offer students with conceptual background of transportation and land use interrelationship, as well as various angles to observe the so called transportation or land use problems, such as urban sprawl and congestion. The second-half of this course is to discuss issues related to transportation and land use planning, such as transit-oriented development, smart growth, climate change and social justice.
Instructor: Carolyn Esswen
What makes cities great places to live, work, play, and recreate? This seminar covers a variety of urban design topics and how regulations impact the built environment. Practice based examples are balanced with theory of city planning and design.
Instructor: Carolyn Esswein
Urban design is about making connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric. Urban design transcends planning and transportation policy, architectural design, development economics, and landscape to bring the vision to life.
Instructor: Carolyn Esswen
Learn about sustainable strategies that address building, environmental, and social equity for built urban environments. Class includes guest lectures and site visits on a broad range of topics from municipal plans, rating systems, green infrastructure, urban open space, economics of sustainability, and water centric cities. We work with real clients on a local assignment to address a current sustainable issue.
