{"c_title":"[M2968.000400] Issues and Methods in Urban Design","c_info":"2 credits | Lecture\/Seminar | Master | Dept. of Landscape Architecture","c_summary":"This course introduces graduate-level students to fundamental ideas of urban design and how cities are developed and modified. After reviewing the brief history of urban design, we will examine a number of urban forces that have influenced the characteristics of built environments, such as: public policy, social forces, ideology of justice, public desires, market forces and developer\u2019s visions, functional efficiency and aesthetics, urban morphology, and the adaptability of cities. More specifically, urban design themes such as urban regeneration of shrinking cities and the making of healthy\/resilient cities will be investigated."}