Course Details

Smart Growth
#6031

Type

LEC

Credits Desc.

3 cr.

Credits Def. Value

3 cr.

Prerequisites

(none listed)

Senior Writing?

(not listed)

Student Year

2L/3L

When Offered

(not listed)

Description:

This class examines emerging legal strategies to address the fiscal, environmental, and social implacts of unrestrained metropolitan regional growth("urban sprawl"). Topics include; inequalities in access to housing, jobs, and educational opportunties; local fiscal competition; local, state & regional regulatory responses to metropolitan development; environmental impacts of metropolitan development; and evolving legal structure of regional governance in America's large metropolitan areas.

Sections

No Sections