Some ideas for and from the syllabus

3 ideas:

1. more field trips

2.  map of OC for final event/project

3.  pictures of our field trips to be exhibited at our final event/celebration - because celebrations are always good!

Just thinking we may want to do some more field trips?  Also Carolina and Mike created a map of orange county that we may want to revisit with our end of term project.  before our initial meeting I was thinking maybe we could do multiple field trips to different cities and people/groups could prepare analysis of the city and present to the rest of the group?  during these trips it would be great to take pictures that could be apart of our archives but also serve as a part of our final project and exhibition?!  Just some thought to chew on...... 

Meeting Notes from Nov. 6th Anthill Pub Meeting

NOTES FROM OUR PREVIOUS MEETING. Im terrible, sorry it took me so freakin long.

Class Scheduled for Spring 2009

Here are the weekly topics (so far, as drafted), lets' add readings, ideas, speakers, thoughts, on to each one.

The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday Nov.12th (TODAY!) at 6:30 pm

1. Critical Planning Methodology. What is a critical planning analysis and what methods are involved.

Marcuse, Peter. Critical Planning. Article Presented in ACSP conference

2. Radical and Insurgent Planning --what theory lies behind this? "other" type of planning, what are the differences (radical, insurgent, critical, etc)?

Friedman, John

3. Other critical perspectives -- race, gender, sexuality. Other critical and theoretical perspectives need to be incorporated within the radical/critical planning practice.

4. Strategies, Tools, and Tactics -- the how to in critical planning

5. Case Study Example: what examples can we study

6. Case Study Example: what example can we study

7. Case Study -- our case studies and critiques that we're examining (we could probably incorporate our interests here, like pedestrian planning, environmental justice, etc).

8. Case Study -- our case studies and critiques that we're examining

9. Field Trip -- radical and critical planning practice

10. Breaking down the Barriers to Critical Planning Methods: What are the barriers to critical planning in planning practice and disciple, and how can we go about breaking down the barrier?

Previous Student Initiated Classes

Here's some amazing student iniated classes to look into:

At UCI, we did Critical Planning in Orange County in Spring of 2007

UCLA Planning students have two courses they've created. Revolutionary Planning and a course on Critical Race. It was a collaboration between Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Public Policy departments.

Check out the link http://crsucla.pbwiki.com/

Welcome

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-Jahmese