PLAN 133 - Planning for Equity, Justice, and the Public Interest

This course explores how the concept of the public interest has historically shaped the development of planning as a profession and how it informs contemporary planning practice. By exploring some of the critiques and failures of planning in the public interest, this course will contextualize equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice within planning practice, as well as human rights. Students will learn the ways in which these principles can inform how planners develop their cultural competence, as they relate to intersectional issues of race, ethnicity, colonialism, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability.