Geography and Planning: Planning MScPl, PhD Courses

All courses are not given every year; some faculty members may be on research leave. Please consult the departmental graduate office for details.

Core Courses for the MScPl

Course Code Course Title
PLA1101H
Planning History, Thought, and Practice
PLA1102H
Planning Decision Methods I
PLA1103H
Legal Basis of Planning
PLA1105H
Planning Decision Methods II
PLA1106H
Workshop in Planning Practice
PLA1107Y
Current Issues Paper
PLA1108H
Communication in the Face of Power

Core Courses for the PhD in Planning

Course Code Course Title
JPG1120H
Advanced Qualitative Research: Methodology and Epistemological Foundations for Planning and Geography
PLA2000H
Advanced Planning Theory
PLA2001H
Planning Colloquium (Credit/No Credit)

Elective Courses

Course Code Course Title
PLA1108H
Communication in the Face of Power
JPG1120H
Advanced Qualitative Research: Methodology and Epistemological Foundations for Planning and Geography
JPG1130H Qualitative Data Analysis: Coding, Interpreting, and Writing Qualitative Research
JPG1170H
Statistical Testing and Analysis
PLA1149H
Independent Study
PLA1150H Planning Field Trip Course
JPG1400H
Advanced Quantitative Methods
JPG1416H
Environmental Consequences of Land Use Change
JPG1418H
Rural Land Use Planning
JGE1420H
Urban Waste Management: an International Perspective
JPG1426H
Natural Resources, Difference, and Conflict
JPG1428H
Greening the City: Urban Environmental Planning and Management
JPG1429H
Political Ecology of Food and Agriculture
JPG1502H
Global Urbanism and Cities of the Global South
JPG1503H
Space, Time, Revolution
JPG1504H
Institutionalism and Cities: Space, Governance, Property, and Power
JPG1506H
State/Space/Difference: Understanding the New Social Geography of the State
JPG1507H
Housing Markets and Housing Policy Analysis
PLA1510H
Special Topics in Planning
JPG1511H
The Commons: Geography, Planning, Politics
JPG1512H
Place, Politics, and the Urban
JPG1513H Toronto Urban Landscapes: Planning, Politics, and Development
JPG1516H
Urban Problems
PLA1516H
Special Topics in Planning II
PLA1517H
Special Topics in Planning III
JPG1518H
Sustainability and Urban Communities
PLA1518H
City Building — Practice and Experience in Toronto and Other World Cities
PLA1519H
Planning and Governance
JPG1520H Contested Geographies of Class-Race Formations
PLA1520H
Project Management and Conflict Resolution for Planners
JPG1522H Production of Space: Aesthetics, Technology, Politics
PLA1525H Urban, Regional, and Community Economic Development
PLA1551H
Policy Analysis
PLA1552H
Management for Planners
JPG1554H
Transportation and Urban Form
JPG1558H
The History and Geography of Cycles and Cycling
PLA1601H
Environmental Planning in a Changing Climate
JPG1605H
The Post-Industrial City
JPG1615H
Planning and the Social Economy
JPG1616H
The Cultural Economy
JPG1617H
Organization of Economies and Cities
JPG1621H Innovation and Governance
PLA1650H
Urban Design: History Theory Criticism
PLA1651H
Planning and Real Estate Development
PLA1652H
Introductory Studio in Urban Design and Planning
PLA1653H
Advanced Studio in Urban Design and Planning
PLA1654H
Urban Design Research Methods
PLA1655H
Urban Design and Development Controls
PLA1656H
Land Use Planning: Principles and Practice
JPG1660H
Regional Dynamics
JPG1670H
Regional Economic Analysis
PLA1702H
Pedestrians, Streets, and Public Space
PLA1703H
Transportation Planning and Infrastructure
JPG1706H
Violence and Security
JPG1805H
Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Gender
GGR1807H
Geographies of Postcoloniality and Development: Exploring the ‘Infrastructure Turn’
JPG1809H
Spaces of Work: Value, Identity, Agency, Justice
JPG1810H
Globalization and Postmodernism
JPG1812Y
Planning for Change: Community Development in Practice
JPG1813H
Social Planning and Policy
JPG1814H
Cities and Immigrants
JPG1816H Geographies of Secularism and Islam
JPG1817H Geographies of Drug Use: History, Power, and Space
JPG1818H The Geography and Planning of Climate Action and Activism
JPG1820H Disability, Ableism, and Place
JPG1825H Black Geographies of the Atlantic
JPG1828H Place and Indigenous Research
JPG1830H Utopia/Dystopia
JPG1835H Anti-Colonial Planning: Theory and Practice
JPG1906H
Geographic Information Systems
JPG1909H
Advanced Space-Time Data Analysis and Visualization
JPG1914H
Geographic Information Systems Research Project (exclusion: GGR462H1)
JPG2150H
Advanced Seminars in Selected Topics
JPG2151H
Advanced Seminars in Selected Topics II
PLA4444H
Internship (Credit/No Credit)
(Designates the internship to be undertaken by master’s students in the Planning program. It cannot be used to fulfil other course requirements for the degree.)