6.12 City Planning Head and Graduate Chair: I. Wight Telephone: (204) 474 9458 Fax: (204) 474 7532 Email: cityplanning@umanitoba.ca Website: umanitoba.ca/architecture/cp

General Office: 201 Russell

Academic Staff

Introduction
The Department of City Planning is the oldest continuing planning school in Canada offering a program of studies leading to the Master of City Planning degree. The Program provides opportunities to develop and enhance skills, often in service learning situations involving local clients. Students come from varied academic backgrounds and the curriculum is structured to satisfy the requirements of professional accreditation and to foster expertise in selected fields of study. In collaboration with the Manitoba Professional Planners Institute, the program includes an internship of planning work. An optional mentoring program links the student with a volunteer from MPPI for discussions on career strategies or other matters.

The program is directed by four principles. The first, and the focus of the program, is the enhancement of the built and natural environments of cities and regions. The second principle, professionalism, is based on the understanding that students enter the program with the expectation of finding professional employment and of making their careers in planning or closely related fields. It leads to a focus on professional practice and responsibilities, and on the skills necessary to translate knowledge into effective action. The third principle is that planning is a multidimensional and multidisciplinary activity requiring highly transactive and collaborative outlooks and practices to advance strategies that are socially just and environmentally sustainable. The fourth principle is that scholarship constitutes a fundamental and lasting value for a planning career, and consequently there is emphasis on historical and theoretical aspects of development, research methods, clarity of critical thought and expression, and the relationships between planning thought and practice.

Fields of Research
Community development; community design and participatory methods
Gender issues in planning and design
Housing studies; homelessness; low-cost housing strategies
Planning practice; planning methods; integral praxis; placemaking
Planning with Aboriginal communities
Regional planning; city-regions; bioregionalism
Transportation planning
Urban ecology; sustainable planning; case studies of ecological innovation

Research Facilities
The Computer Aided Design Laboratory (CADLAB) is a major centre of research and hands on training offering cutting edge digital resources and an experienced complement of teaching and support staff. Extensive data bases provided by governmental and non-governmental sources are linked to GIS applications. The Architecture and Fine Arts Library, housed in the Russell Building, holds some 61,000 volumes dedicated to the planning, art and design disciplines represented in the University, including over 400 current periodicals. Over 100,000 35mm slides are available and electronic resources include networked bibliographic and full text resources. Studio space is provided in the Russell Building and Architecture 2, as well as occasionally on or near a study site.

Master of City Planning (M.C.P.)

Admission
Admission requirements are those of the Faculty of Graduate Studies found in the Graduate Studies Regulations Section of this Calendar. For additional application procedures see the website.

The Department of City Planning allows students to begin their MCP program on either September 1st or, at the Department's discretion, January 1st.

For admission on these start dates, applications - with complete supporting documentation, should be sent to the Department of City Planning (Attention: Chair, Department Admissions Committee) by the following deadlines:

Start Date	Canadian/U.S.	International
Regular - September	February 1st	December 1st
Winter - January	September 15th	n/a

Late applications may be considered if spaces become available after the main allocations.

Program Requirements
Minimum Program requirements of the Faculty of Graduate Studies are found in the Graduate Studies Regulations Section of this calendar. In addition, students are required to take:

Course Number	Title	Credit Hours
Year 1
CITY 7030	Planning Theory 1	3
CITY 7070	Housing and Urban Revitalization	3
CITY 7350	Thesis/Practicum Preparation	0
CITY 7410	Planning Design 1	6
CITY 7420	Planning Design 2	6
CITY 7460	Urban Ecology and Environmental Management	3
	Total credit hours	21
Year 2
CITY 7310	Law and Local Government	3
CITY 7340	Urban Development	3
CITY 7470	Professional Planning Practice	3
either CITY 7430 or CITY 7440	Planning Design 3 (Urban Design) Planning Design 4	6
GRAD 7000	Thesis	0
GRAD 7030	Practicum	0
	Total credit hours	15

Elective Course Offerings: 9 credit hours required

See website for elective courses currently offered by the department. City Planning students detail their particular plans of study by choosing from the departmental offerings, from graduate courses within the Faculty in Architecture, Interior Design and Landscape Architecture, as well as from courses offered throughout the university.

Degree requirements: 45 credit hours total

Second language reading requirement: none

Expected time to graduation: two years

Ph.D.
There is at present no Ph.D. Program offered in the Department of City Planning.

Course Descriptions

Year 1
CITY 7030 Planning Theory 1 (3) The principal ideas and ideals influencing planning thought and practice, ranging from rational comprehensive planning to theories of societal guidance, ethics and the human-environment interface.

CITY 7070 Housing and Urban Revitalisation (3) Housing and urban revitalisation in the Canadian context. Housing demand and supply, structure of the housing market, Canadian housing policy, affordability and other selected housing issues; processes and strategies related to urban decline and revitalisation.

CITY 7350 Thesis/Practicum Preparation (0) A preparatory course for students registered in thesis or practicum. Methods of constructing problems, formulating hypotheses, methods of investigation, sources of information, and appropriate form and content of thesis and/or practicum. Course evaluated on a pass/fail basis.

CITY 7410 Planning Design 1 (6) Studio/workshop developing problem solving techniques and design skills in an area subject to environmental, social and economic change. Preparation of a planning report comprising of research and analysis, evaluation of feasible alternative strategies and designs, synthesis and recommendations for implementation. Case studies from planning journals and planning practice in cities and regions.

CITY 7420 Planning Design 2 (6) Studio/workshop building upon CITY 7410 as applied to an area of greater complexity, requiring the evaluation and integration of contributions from several planning-related disciplines. Selected projects emphasize both the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of planning, and the resolution of the problems posed. Case studies from planning journals and planning practice in cities and regions.

CITY 7460 Urban Ecology and Environmental Management (3) Theoretical frameworks and theories in urban ecology and environmental management as they apply to municipal institutional frameworks and the role of environmental planning in urban and regional government.

Year 2

CITY 7310 Law and Local Government (3) Topics of common law, torts, real property, land use planning and control, expropriation, and local government, including some recent cases.

CITY 7340 Urban Development (3) The mechanics of urban development and its socio-economic implications and underlying political forces.

CITY 7470 Professional Planning Practice (3) An examination of the professional practice and praxis of planning, presented in collaboration with the Manitoba Professional Planners Institute, emphasising the practice aspects of planning processes, and the political, institutional and legal systems that direct and/or inform planning. Practical field experience is involved in the form of a pre-course internship.

EITHER

CITY 7430 Planning Design 3 (Urban Design) (6) The application of urban design theories and techniques to a large scale urban area of complex land uses and community development issues. The studio is also open to advanced students in architecture, landscape architecture and interior design and develops a broad approach to multidisciplinary problem solving design solutions.

OR

CITY 7440 Planning Design 4 (6) Advanced planning design studio/workshop, experimental and innovative in approach and content, involving special techniques and skills. Studio may also be off-campus and/or focused on a special topic centred around a distinguished guest expert.