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Course Info for URST - 301 - 01, Spring 2025
Class number: 2847 Title: Community Develpmnt Strategies Department: Urban Studies
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 12 Current enrollment: 12 Available seats: 0
Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM, LIB - B02 Instructor(s): Delgado, Laura
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: Urban Studies 101 or permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirement: Meets Soc Sciences & Identity Power Equity Req
Course Description:
In this course we will explore the causes of neighborhood decline, examine the history, current practice and guiding policies of community development, and see firsthand selected community development strategies at work in the local communities surrounding Trinity College. We will pay close attention to the influence of ideas in good currency in the field of urban development such as smart growth, transit oriented development, land-banking and place-making. The course is organized around four questions: What are the underlying forces behind neighborhood decline? How and why did community development emerge? How has community development practice reconciled itself with current concepts that guide urban development such as new urbanism, smart growth, place-making and land-banking. What does the future hold for disinvested communities and for community development practice?