Sustainable Planning & Urban Design (PLAN)

Sustainable planning and urban design examines issues of sustainability and social justice in communities, cities and regions around the world.

Heavily centered around community engagement, this major allows students to focus on a variety of topics, such as housing, environmental planning, transportation planning and urban design. Students examine these topics through a combination of design, policy and management perspectives.��

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Environmental Design Core

Anchored through a combination of lecture courses and studio instruction, our core curriculum builds upon studios where students solve design problems at interrelated scales of the built environment: buildings, landscapes and urban systems.

Semester 1: Fall

Intro to environmental product of design, 8-week studio
Intro to architecture, 8-week studio
Core technology 1
ENVD Colloquium
Core lecture: Design Theory & Thinking

Semester 2: Spring

Intro to landscape architecture, 8-week studio
Intro to sustainable planning & urban design, 8-week studio
Core technology 2
Core lecture: History of the Built Environment

Semester 3: Fall

Choice of core design studio, 8-week studio
Choice of core design studio, 8-week studio
Core technology 3
Core lecture: Ecology & Design
Core lecture: Planning & Implementation��

Students pursue in-depth projects and gain specialized skills necessary for pre-professional work or graduate study through upper-division course work.

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Intro to Sustainable Planning & Urban Design

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by Taylor Martin

The Boulder Orbit

by Evie Warner

East Bookend Redevelopment Plan

by Anna Postolache

��ENVD Core 8-week design studio
Taken during the second semester, this is the fourth of four introductory studios in which students learn concepts and strategies related to urban planning and design. Students collaboratively develop a design solution to a small-scale problem within an urban fabric using basic skills of analysis and design iteration.

Fundamentals of Sustainable Planning & Urban Design

Gunbarrel Transit Village

by Sima Marcus

Boulder Neighborhood Plan

by Rachel Martino

Reservoir Hill

by Jake Hassett

��ENVD Core 8-week design studio
Through a small-scale urban planning and design project, students explore solutions to challenges in dynamic urban systems. Builds on knowledge and skills gained in the introductory studios to explore the human and environmental dimensions of intertwined systems within the built environment.

Foundations of Sustainable Planning & Urban Design

St. Vrain Valley Corridor

by Kendall Hiraki, Ethan Cranmer, Jake Hassett

Power Light District

by Jillian, Ayden, Grady, Ryan

Revitalizing South Longmont

by Dylan, Michael, Connor, Teal

��ENVD major 16-week design studio
Expands on introductory planning and urban design concepts and methods to address social and ecological challenges in communities. Explores skills including spatial analysis, basic community engagement techniques and policy alternatives. The resultant project addresses challenges at the intersection between social and environmental systems.

Intermediate Sustainable Planning & Urban Design

Steamboat Mountain School Campus Redesign by Ella Lapello and Jack Jensen

�� ENVD major 16-week design studio
Uses intermediate-level planning concepts and practices to create solutions to specific challenges in a collaborative process. Through a sequence of design investigations students explores issues such as equity, housing, transportation, community engagement and land use.

Capstone in Sustainable Planning & Urban Design

Department of Achieving Low-Impact Energy

by Emily Podpirka, Gretchen Schooleman, Ian Wood, Charlie Zschau, and Jack Saverin

Equitable Housing

by Jessica Flewallen, Ella Kozlowski, Ella Kundts, Madeline Feierstein

Water Conservation Element

by Aden Dravenstott, Nico Fuentes, Ainsley McElwee, Sarah Peters, Caleb Schmitz

��ENVD major 16-week design studio
Applies advanced concepts in comprehensive planning and plan-making for communities. The project engages communities to solve complex problems in social and ecological systems using qualitative and quantitative skills.

Innovative Curriculum

Signature and innovative, or core curriculum provides an intensive and balanced introduction to the traditional professions within the broad field of environmental design.��Set a foundation with a three-semester introduction to design theories and practice before declaring your major.

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ENVD Core

3 semesters of ENVD core

Interdisciplinary

six eight-week design studios

5-credit

technology course sequence

sixteen-week major design studios

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