CATALOG DESCRIPTION: URP 337 examines how infrastructure systems such as transportation, energy, water, and public facilities serve people and their activities. Teaches skills for infrastructure planning, evaluation, and implementation. 3 lecture-discussions, 3 hours of laboratory. Prerequisite: URP 335. Concurrent enrollment required.

For more information, refer to the syllabus.

To University library reserve for lecture notes (type "urey" for instructor name when you get there)

To quiz and extra credit information.

To quiz solutions

date	Click for study questions	reading	vocabulary words
4/5		"Overview of Public Authorities and Special Districts"  "Parks and Playgrounds"	dissolute, nostrum, raison d'etre, brackish, benign
4/14		"Why allow planners to do what they do?"	pecuniary, empirical, instransigence
4/19		"Development Charges"  "Shared infrastructure costs"	rational nexus, tenet, dissension, two meanings of equity
4/26		State of Garbage in America and Pay as you throw	words: recovery rate, tipping fee, C&D debris, use ban, white goods, PAYT
4/28		Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance	words
5/3		"Transportation Planning"	words:  none
5/10		"Water supply"  short articles for background on MWD and ERP.	words: acre foot
5/12		Reinventing Electric Utilities	words:
5/17		Building the Public City   Maywood	words:nascent, reticence, "highly competitive mercantile environment," speculative, retrench
5/24		Healthy Cities	words:

To Labs

Lab I  City overviews due 12 April
Lab II  Parks and recreation due 14 April
Lab III  School infrastructure due 28 April
Lab IV:  Transportation due 12 May
Lab V informal presentations on 2 June; products and brief formal presentations on 7 June

To reaction paper assignments

Reaction paper #1: Regional polarization and tax pooling
    to Myron Orfield article
    to model paper
Reaction paper #2: Security in public schools
    example of paper that very directly addresses the assignment
Reaction paper #3: The production of public space (Mike Davis reading)

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