2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Oct 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Design & Architecture Concentration, B.S.


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Urban designers and architects offer design ideas, strategies, and solutions pertaining to the physical realm. Architects focus on planning, designing, and constructing buildings and structures, while urban designers work on creating, adapting, or reviewing plans for urban spaces between and around the buildings. In this way, urban design is the bridge between architecture and planning. Both fields are intimately linked to the creative and iterative design process, linking them to art history and aesthetics. Building on a foundation in Urban and Regional Planning and Art, students taking this pre-professional concentration will be exposed to a variety of design topics and knowledge on the history of architecture and cities, contemporary green building construction technology and materials, commonly used tools for creating sustainable urban spaces, and visual communication tools to present ideas. Working closely with faculty on applied research or hands-on projects in studio settings will allow them to develop skills to analyze various urban conditions, explore innovative design solutions, and come up with design strategies for developing, revitalizing, or rebuilding varying urban scenarios and conditions.

 

Regional Planning Required General Education Courses


Choose one of the following courses:

Urban Design & Architecture Concentration - 27 Credits


Additional Graduation Requirements


All students must meet the University Graduation Requirements  and complete a general education or common core of studies, distributed among the different academic areas as detailed in General Education: WISE  or Common Core .

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