Environmental designers plan and develop physical environments with which people interact every day. Direct, tangible engagement with the environment – whether it be neighborhoods, communities, streetscapes, or citizen activists – is fundamental to the aspiring environmental designer. University at Buffalo Environmental Design is distinctive by engaging our students in the dynamic binational Buffalo-Niagara region. In Environmental Design, students become involved with municipal governments and neighborhood groups, urban and rural environments, citizens and leaders, and the challenges they face: both complex problems and creative opportunities. This is done through in-class exercises, site visits, field work, internships and independent study, capstone courses, and through Environmental Design studio workshops. Through Environmental Design, we prepare students for careers in which they can make positive change in communities.
Environmental Design
Department of Urban & Regional Planning
126 Hayes HallSouth Campus
Buffalo, NY 14214-8030
Professor and Chair
Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education and Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant for Undergraduate Education
The Learning Environment
About Our Facilities
The Architecture and Planning Library, located in Abbot Hall, is one of ten libraries within the University at Buffalo.
University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning IT Services comprise two sets of facilities: a central collection of laboratories and computing classrooms, and a collection of distributed facilities located in the graduate and undergraduate architecture and urban planning studios.
The Digital Fabrication Workshop provides a range of the latest equipment dedicated to material research, model making, and digital fabrication.
The Architecture and Planning Materials and Methods Shop is a complete machine and assembly shop, contains 7,000 square feet of high-bay space and is supplied with full woodworking capabilities, welding and milling equipment, lathes, sheet-metal machines, a vacuum-forming machine for molding plastic, and a variety of hand tools.
The Visual Resources Center directly supports the curriculum with its ever-growing collection of slides, audiovisual equipment and an extensive image database. The center also produces video recordings of the school's lecture series and other events.
About Our Faculty
Senior faculty from University at Buffalo Urban and Regional Planning teach core courses in the undergraduate pre-professional environmental design program. Two faculty members from Urban and Regional Planning have been recognized with the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition, some courses are taught by professional urban planners, public administrators, environmental educators, historic preservationists, architects, designers, and real estate developers. In academic year 2017-2018, University at Buffalo Urban and Regional Planning has 15 tenure/tenure track faculty, three clinical faculty, one visiting scholar, and eight adjunct faculty.
Faculty List Directory
Please visit the University at Buffalo and Urban and Regional Planning website for additional information about our faculty.
Courses
- END 120LEC Introduction to Urban Environments Lecture
An introductory course and approved social science general education course. Studies how physical, design, social, political and economic forces interact to shape and reshape our urban environments. Examines concepts and content related to cities, suburbs, and metropolitan regions within and outside the U.S. From multidisciplinary perspectives, covers media images of cities and suburbs, patterns and trends in urban environments over time and place, urban observation, demographics, culture, and design. Assesses contemporary urban issues, including race relations, environmental issues, and population problems. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. Open to non-majors.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
- END 198SEM UB Seminar Seminar
The one credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps transition to UB through an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 198 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.
Credits: 1
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Other Requisites: Students who have already successfully completed the UB seminar course may not repeat this course. If you have any questions regarding enrollment for this course, please contact your academic advisor.
- END 199SEM UB Seminar Seminar
The three credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps students with common learning outcomes focused on fundamental expectations for critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and oral communication, and learning at a university, all within topic focused subject matter. The Seminars provide students with an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 199 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Other Requisites: Students who have already successfully completed the first year seminar course may not repeat this course. If you have any questions regarding enrollment for this course, please contact your academic advisor.
- END 212LEC Urban and Environmental Planning Lecture
Urban and Environmental Planning (END 212) provides an introduction to the planning, design, and development of cities, communities, and the natural environments in which they are situated, with the creation of sustainable communities as the overall goal. Through urban and environmental planning, sustainable neighborhoods are seen as places which maintain and restore our natural and built environments, thereby creating a higher quality of life for residents. Topics include the foundations of urban and environmental planning, techniques used, the development process, and urban design issues. Examines urban and environmental planning foci, such as urbanization, physical sprawl, environmental design, land use, sustainable development, neighborhood planning, transportation systems, historic preservation, and environmental assessment. Open to all undergraduates. Fulfills the SUNY Social Science general education requirement.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
- END 275LEC Environment and Landscapes Lecture
Examines contemporary perspectives on environmental design. Focuses on the complex relationships between people, the natural and constructed environments, and landscapes. Introduces new ways of seeing, understanding, and communicating landscape design. Considers problems in the landscaped environment including greenspace, complex urban centers, post-industrial wastelands, physical infrastructure, and entire watersheds. Reviews how the planning and development of our landscaped settings affects quality of life in physical environments within the context of environmental design. May be offered on an intermittent basis. Open to all undergraduate majors.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
- END 279LEC Exploring the Design of Buffalo Niagara Lecture
Explores the planning and design history of the Buffalo Niagara region in relation to the future. Examines proposals aimed at revitalizing the economy, improving the quality of life, and protecting the environment of Buffalo Niagara for future generations. Involves historical plus current plans and designs accompanied with lectures, discussions, films, and readings. Introduces urban design and regional development theory and practice. Provides an opportunity to understand community design, the full scope of small to large scale regional work, and comprehend location of place in relationship to the Buffalo Niagara region. Researches the history of Buffalo Niagara communities, examine the place as planned, and critically interpret its history, plans, and designs. May be offered on an intermittent basis. Open to non-majors.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
- END 285LEC Transportation in Environmental Design and Urban Life Lecture
Introduces how communities look to urban transportation systems to address environmental design challenges, including urban development, congestion, pollution, sprawl, public safety, obesity, and physical isolation. Explores multi-modal transportation (walking, bicycle, public transit, vehicle) in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas in order to explain the central role of transportation in shaping environmental design, urban communities, and the lives of people. The course is both historical and topical; it examines the tandem evolution of transportation systems and urban development, and investigates current transportation debates such as environmental impacts, urban design, congestion, air quality, the role of government, and strategies for sustainable transportation travel. Includes lectures and field work. May be offered on an intermittent basis. Open to all SUNY undergraduate students. Fulfills the SUNY Humanities and SUNY Social Social Science General Education Requirements.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
- END 301LEC Perspectives On Land Use and Development Lecture
Covers concepts and practices of urban land use and development in U.S. Topics include zoning, growth management, site design, environmental issues and land use evolution. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisites: PD 212
Other Requisites: PD 301
- END 302LEC Sustainable Urban Environments Lecture
Examines the relationship of urban and natural environments, focusing on sustainable development and global climate change. Emphasis on biodiversity, pollution, efficiency, and renewable energy. Considers appropriate use of resources that are environmentally sound. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
- END 303LEC Methods of Communication Lecture
Develops communication skills on urban and environmental issues, and hones skills of description and reporting about urban and environmental places and policies. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
Prerequisites: END 120 or permission of advisement
- END 305LEC Environmental Education and Urbanism Lecture
Explores methods for creating public knowledge, awareness, and understanding toward the physical planning of our natural and urban environments. Develops competency and skills for environmental designers in presenting urban environmental information through education, communication, and performing an environmental assessment. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
- END 306LEC Community + Education and Urban Development Lecture
Examines ways in which education influences, and is influenced by, communities. Considers how educational institutions can respond to conditions and issues that exist in community environments. Reviews challenges confronting communities, educational institutions, and urban development. Explores and identifies opportunities for collaboration and partnerships. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
Prerequisites: PD 120 or permission of advisement.
Other Requisites: PD 306
- END 308SEM Health and Urban Environments Seminar
Explores current health issues found in urban and physical environments. Examines diverse public health conditions, including environmentally-caused diseases, pollution-related diseases, aging populations, and the globalization of illness. Considers various community-based social and physical environmental solutions. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisites: Sophmore, Junior or Senior Standing
- END 312LEC Design of Cities Lecture
Traces evolution of urban form and character from Greek city-states to the present. Emphasizes how technological, social, economic, and political changes affect urban layout and functioning.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisites: PD 212
Other Requisites: PD 312
- END 313LEC Local Government Policy and Politics Lecture
Provides insights to the process and outcomes of local government decision-making. Topics include the types and powers of various local government entities, including: the influence of politics, how governments determine agendas, and implement projects/policies. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
- END 319LEC The City Through Film: Built Environment in Mass Media Lecture
Through weekly film and multi-media screenings, discussions, readings, and critiques, explores themes of architectural design, urban imagery, inner cities, suburbia, environmental design, physical development, community planning, politics, and their futures in mass media. The built environment serves as a medium that transmits, reinforces and reproduces social values, attitudes and behaviors. Examines how institutions attempt to shape public perspectives using images of the built environment through mass media. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
Prerequisites: Juniors & Seniors Only or Permission of Advisement.
- END 321DIS History of Design Discussion
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 350SEM Environmental Design Workshop 1: Methods of Design Inquiry Seminar
A majors-only core studio workshop. Introduces how to integrate research inquiry, information analysis, and environmental design. Provides students with methodologies in gathering, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating qualitative and quantitative information about the contemporary physical and urban environment. Data sources include U.S. Census materials, state and regional agency databases, community master plans, historical archives, and online and hardcopy reports and surveys. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. Enrollment in END 350 requires official admission to the Environmental Design BA, Junior class standing, a prerequisite GPA of 2.50 in END 120 plus END 212 plus ENG 105 or ENG 101, and an overall UB GPA of 2.33. Concurrent enrollment in the following courses is prohibited: END 120/END 350 and END 350/END 450.
Credits: 6
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or ENG 105 and END 120, END 212 and 2.5 GPA; Junior Standing & Admission to the Environmental Design BA only.
- END 356SLB Computing for Environmental Analysis Seminar
Covers basics of geographic information systems (GIS) and other computing tools for understanding, mapping, and analyzing natural and built environments. Includes weekly computer lab. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing or permission of advisement.
- END 357SEM Creative Problem Solving for Global Challenges Seminar
The grand challenges of the world today, such as the global refugee crisis, are highly complex. Cultural, economic, political, environmental, and technological issues are intertwined, and these grand global challenges demand creative problem solving. This course, therefore, introduces and leverages multiple creative problem solving and design thinking strategies to prepare students for engaging some of the greatest challenges of human history. END 357 Creative Problem Solving for Global Challenges is an approved UB Curriculum global pathways course and fulfills both the SUNY Arts and SUNY Other World Civilizations general education requirements.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
- END 360SLB Environmental Design Workshop 2: Graphic Communications Seminar
A majors-only core studio workshop. Examines modes of visual literacy for comprehending the built environment. Introduces rudimentary graphic representation skills for visually communicating urban planning and design concepts through readings and hands-on exercises. Class activities include drawing, drafting, design fundamentals, generating computer graphics, and urban observation. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. Enrollment in END 360 requires official admission to the Environmental Design BA, Junior class standing, a prerequisite GPA of 2.50 in END 120 plus END 212 plus ENG 105 or ENG 101, and an overall UB GPA of 2.33. Concurrent enrollment in the following courses is prohibited: END 212/END 360, END 360/END 494, and END 360/END 498.
Credits: 6
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or ENG 105 and END 120, END 212 and 2.5 GPA; Junior Standing & Admission to the Environmental Design BA only.
- END 363LEC Cities and Globalization Lecture
Considers "world cities" and how global trends and forces shape the community design, politics, social life, environment, and economies of urban places. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisites: END 212 or PD 212, junior standing, and admission to the Environmental Design BA or Environmental Design minor.
- END 395LAB Special Topics Lab in Environmental Design Laboratory
Topics vary annually. In the past this course addressed environmental planning, methods of design inquiry, environmental information systems, urban design, historic preservation, and real estate development. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 1 - 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 395SEM Special Topics Seminar
A major or minor elective. Topics vary by semester.
Credits: 6
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 402LEC Real Estate Development Fundamentals Lecture
Introduces students to the fundamentals of real estate development, including planning, site acquisition, project feasibility, finance, and physical development in urban environments. Uses case studies, small group activities, fieldwork, readings, and discussions. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisites: PD 212 and junior or senior standing in Environmental Design BA / Minor
Other Requisites: PD 402
- END 403LEC Strategies of Property Management Lecture
Introduces strategies and methods of property management, including creating financial reports, knowledge of property marketing, understanding leasing contracts, awareness of emerging practices in energy management, evolving security and emergency procedures, and enhancing tenant relations. May be offered on an intermittent basis. Includes lectures, discussion, and fieldwork. This course is dual listed with END 503 and URP 503.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisites: END 212 and junior or senior standing
- END 405LEC Urban Planning and Environmental Change Lecture
Examines and assesses environmental information systems, the built environment, and demographic trends to explore the evolving role of urban planning in the context of global climate change. Introduces the environmental science of climate change, global responses, and urban planning strategies for climate change management. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
Prerequisites: PD 120 or permission of advisement.
Other Requisites: PD 355
- END 406SEM Housing & Community Development Seminar
Studies theories, concepts, and practices of housing and community development, emphasizing neighborhood planning and design in urban environments. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Prerequisites: PD 350
Other Requisites: PD 406
- END 407LEC School Planning and Development Lecture
Examines school planning within the larger context of neighborhood development. Considers how school planning and development creates opportunities for potential urban redevelopment as well as generating a sense of community pride and physical identity. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
- END 408LEC Special Topics Lecture
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. A major or minor elective. Topics vary by semester.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 410LEC Special Topics Lecture
Topics vary annually. In the past this course addressed the policies and politics of local government. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 411LEC Environmental Design Information Systems Lecture
A major or minor elective. Explores environmental design and urban development problems and possible solutions using information systems incorporating various data sources. Evaluates information and reports on trends for understanding planning, design, and development shaping our urban and community environments. Provides a setting in which students build upon computing and analytic skills utilizing information systems for supporting decision-making in environmental design. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
Prerequisites: PD 350
Other Requisites: PD 409
- END 412SEM Special Topics Seminar
Topics vary annually. In the past this course addressed issues in environmental design and development planning in practice. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 413SEM Special Topics Seminar
Topics vary annually. In the past this course addressed legal issues in planning, design, and development. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 415LEC Special Topics Lecture
Topics vary annually. In the past this course addressed the development and management of real estate property. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 417LEC Special Topics Lecture
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 418SEM Global Innovation Challenge Seminar
Overcoming global health disparities is a defining challenge of the 21st century. Finding sustainable, global solutions to end poverty and hunger, deliver clean water and quality shelter, and improve education and healthcare, however, is exceedingly complex and difficult. Using a creative, interdisciplinary approach and workshop format, the Global Innovation Challenge takes on major problems in global health, such as air pollution or refugee resettlement, to find viable solutions.
Credits: 1
Grading: Pass/Not Pass (PNP)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 422SEM Economic Development Planning Seminar
Covers theory, concepts, and practices in contemporary economic development planning. Considers alternative approaches to job growth, including industrial development, workforce training, and quality of life strategies. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisites: PD 350
Other Requisites: PD 422
- END 425LEC Cad Technology in Env Dsn Lecture
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 426SEM Site Planning and Development Seminar
Examines site planning, design, and development of residential, commercial, and industrial properties within various community settings. Reviews property site selection procedures and community landscape planning. Investigates activities within site development including planning, design, aesthetics, landform preparations, and renovations within urban environments. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisites: END 350SEM or permission of advisement
- END 428LEC Foundations of Historic Preservation Lecture
Historic preservation theory related to urban and environmental planning, emphasizing preservation practice, including tools of effective preservation, legislation, community roles, economics, adaptive use, and management. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
- END 435SEM Urban Managemnt & Govrnce Seminar
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 439LEC Local Government Finance and Budgeting Lecture
Introduces students to the theory, practice, and real world applications local government finances. Concentrates on public budgeting issues and revenue analysis. Examines concerns in community planning, including fiscal impact of development, school finance, and tax increment financing models. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
- END 441LEC Nonprofit Management Lecture
This course introduces students to management issues in the nonprofit sector. Topics will include nonprofit: governance, board structure, planning, financial management, fundraising, grant writing, leadership, personnel management, and ethics. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
Prerequisites: PD 350SEM or permission of advisement required.
- END 442LEC Central City Revitalization Lecture
A major or minor elective. Examines theory and practice of urban revitalization with a focus on downtown and commercial revitalization in metropolitan central cities. Place-based and people-based strategies for urban revitalization will be investigated and explored. Best Practices in urban planning and design, including current research and scholarship, will be analyzed. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
- END 443SEM Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Seminar
Introduces and practices techniques in negotiations and bargaining, particularly as applied to community planning and environmental conflict. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
- END 450SEM Environmental Design Workshop 3 - Comprehensive Projects Seminar
A majors-only capstone studio workshop. Engages students in community planning and environmental design fieldwork in Western New York. Under the instructor's supervision, students work with clients and neighborhood groups to understand complex community planning and environmental issues, research best practices, and develop final plans, comprehensive designs, and proposals. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. Enrollment in END 450 requires official admission to the Environmental Design BA, Senior class standing, END 350 plus END 360, an END/PD prefixed GPA of 2.50, and an overall UB GPA of 2.33. Concurrent enrollment in the following courses is prohibited: END 350/END 450.
Credits: 6
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisites: END 350 and END 360. Senior standing and 2.5 GPA.
- END 458SEM Designing Inclusive Environments Seminar
Introduces concepts and techniques of inclusive design in our communities including site planning, property development, physical infrastructure, public spaces, accessibility, and landscapes. Considers the goal of creating beautiful and functional environments that can be used equally by everyone, irrespective of age, gender, or disability. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
- END 459SEM Tourism and Recreation Development Seminar
Examines a variety of specific tourism and recreation ventures and explores how they can be used to enhance development. Considered from several perspectives; including the role of tourism in economic development and the community level relationship between hosts and guests. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
- END 464SEM Infrastructure Planning & Design Seminar
Introduces principles, operation and design of physical infrastructure systems including roads, public transportation, community facilities, public open space, surface drainage, and electric, gas, water, waste disposal, and telecommunication services.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
- END 465LEC Urban Planning and Design 1 Lecture
Explores the current practice of urban design in the context of the United States. Examines new opportunities and constraints in environmental assessment, and management structure in local government; mechanisms for land-use controls or incentives; public investment strategy; and case studies assessing major development strategies used in today's practice. May be offered on an intermittent basis.This course is the same as ARC 465 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
Prerequisites: Upper class standing in Architecture major only or permission of advisement
- END 466LEC Urban Planning & Design 2 Lecture
Urban Design: Built Environment Case Studies examines how American cities are so thinly spread out compared with many other nations. What is density and what does it mean? What are the relations between density and sustainability? This graduate seminar is intended to examine density as a most profound indicator of human settlement pattern especially in urbanized areas. One of hypotheses that the class addresses is this: Is denser the city, the greener it is or is it? Through the use of provocative readings and comparative analysis and mapping techniques, we compare major cities around the world to understand the relation between urban density and urbanism, its economic and environmental robustness: placemaking, good urban form and great streets -- all contributing to making cities great and robust ecologically, economically and socially. This course is the same as ARC 466 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 467LEC Legal Issues in Planning and Development Lecture
Explores historical and legal foundations of planning and development. Provides a legal perspective on land use, zoning policies, environmental regulations, housing, and other areas of interest. Reviews political, legal, and administrative institutions related to the planning and development process. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
- END 469LAB GIS Applications Laboratory
Covers theory, techniques, and applications in geographic information systems, particularly as applied to planning problems and issues. Includes weekly computer lab. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
- END 469SEM GIS Applications Seminar
Covers theory, techniques, and applications in geographic information systems, particularly as applied to planning problems and issues. Includes weekly computer lab. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
- END 471SEM 3d Vis & Urban Simulation
- END 473SEM Projects in Physical Planning and Design Seminar
Designed to provide a basic understanding of the physical planning, design, and development process. Examines environmental, man-made, and policy elements that impact the physical development planning. Introduces methods for analyzing physical planning and design problems, the applications of physical development planning standards, an understanding of physical planning approaches, and the creation of planning, design, and development solutions.
- END 474SEM Negotiation & Conflict Re Seminar
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 479SEM Comparaive and Global Development Issues Seminar
Compares significant themes in global issues, global development, and global relations shaping urban and community environments on both the local and international levels.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall
- END 480LAB Environmental Design Study Abroad Laboratory
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. A majors-only study abroad course. Locations vary annually. In the past, undergraduate students have participated in environmental design study abroad programs taught in Australia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Canada, the Dutch Antilles, and other international locations as organized by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Other in-house study abroad programs will be offered on an ad-hoc basis by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the UB Office of Study Abroad, based upon faculty and student interest. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Summer
Prerequisites: PD 212
Other Requisites: PD 480
- END 480LEC Environmental Design Study Abroad Lecture
Locations vary annually. In the past, undergraduate students have participated in environmental design study abroad programs taught in Australia, Cuba, Costa Rica, the Dutch Antilles, and other international locations as organized by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Other in-house study abroad programs will be offered on an ad-hoc basis by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, based upon faculty and student interest. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Summer
Prerequisites: PD 212
Other Requisites: PD 480
- END 488LEC Special Topics Lecture
Topics vary annually. In the past this course addressed hidden systems of cities and urban environments- utilities, water, sewer, telecommunications, and transport. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
- END 489SEM Special Topics Seminar
Topics vary annually. In the past this course addressed urban hazards and disasters and community revitalization planning. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 491SEM Urban Design Special Topics Seminar
Topics vary annually. In the past this course addressed urban design, environmental design, community planning, landscape development, and placemaking. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
- END 492TUT Environmental Design Colloquium Tutorial
Topics vary annually. In the past, an examination of issues pertaining to environmental design, community planning, and regional development. Included historical, theoretical, formal, technical, and ethical concerns in planning, design, and development. Content defined by instructor; with group discussions focused on assigned readings and field trips. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 1
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 493TUT Environmental Design Colloquium 2 Tutorial
Environmental Design Colloquium 2 is a discussion course in which students will explore the current issues found within the design disciplines, including Design Studies, Environmental Design, Urban Planning, Real Estate Development, and Historic Preservation. Students will research, communicate, and analyze historical and contemporary discourse, issues, and trends facing design and the urban environment.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Varies
- END 494SEM Visions of the City Seminar
Student-led, faculty-guided reading course covers classic and contemporary books on the natural, built, and urban environments. An undergraduate senior capstone course.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisites: PD 350SEM, PD 360SLB, and Environmental Design Majors only.
Corequisites: PD 498SEMStudents may not enroll in PD 360SLB and PD 494SEM in the same semester.
- END 496TUT Environmental Design Internship Tutorial
Offers opportunity to work in urban or regional agencies in areas such as housing development, local government, strategic planning, transportation, community development, environmental affairs, land use, and urban design.
Credits: 2 - 3
Grading: Pass/Not Pass (PNP)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Prerequisites: Admission to the Environmental Design BA / Minor or permission of advisement.
Other Requisites: PD 496
- END 498SEM Research Projects in Environmental Design Seminar
A required senior undergraduate research and creative activity course. Engages students in environmental design methodologies and individual research on a topic of contemporary interest. Topics vary annually. In the past this course addressed community gardens, urban food security, active living, community design, urban/suburban relations, urban subcultures, urban hazards and disasters, environmental planning, and urban development.
Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisites: PD 350SEM and PD 360SLB, Approved Environmental Design Major
Corequisites: PD 494SEM. Students may not enroll in PD 360SLB and PD 498SEM in the same semester.
- END 499TUT Independent Study in Environmental Design Tutorial
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. Designed to add depth and breadth to a student's formal degree program. Students electing for END 499 Independent Study in Environmental Design must be accepted for work on a specific topic by a member of the University at Buffalo Urban Planning faculty, and must have the approval of the Urban Planning department chair. Students completing END 499 Independent Study in Environmental design will also participate in events sponsored by the University at Buffalo Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (UB CURCA). May be offered on an intermittent basis.
Credits: 1 - 6
Grading: Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Prerequisites: Admission to the Environmental Design BA only.
Other Requisites: PD 499