MCP City & Regional Planning at University of Pennsylvania

The Master of City Planning core curriculum encompasses the basic skills and knowledge required of all planners regardless of their specialization, and is a hallmark of our cutting-edge and practical approach to educating city planners. Students who complete the core will understand the legal and historical basis of city planning; they will know how to use a wide variety of population and economic data to understand local communities; and they will understand the form and arrangement of cities and metropolitan areas around the world. Most important, they will understand which planning approaches work best in which contexts and circumstances.

Faculty: Stuart Weitzman School of Design  |  Duration: 18 course units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States

What you will study

Requires 18 course units in total. Listed required courses include CPLN 5000 Introduction to City Planning: History, Theory and Practice; CPLN 5010 Quantitative Planning Analysis Methods; CPLN 5020 Urban Economics and Public Finance; CPLN 5090 Law of Planning and Urban Development; CPLN 7010 Planning Studio (or other; CPLN 5030 Modeling Geographical Objects.

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