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 CodeCourse Title
Planning History, Thought, and Practice
Planning Decision Methods I
Legal Basis of Planning
Planning Decision Methods II
Workshop in Planning Practice
Current Issues Paper
Communication in the Face of Power

Core Courses for the PhD in Planning

Course CodeCourse Title
Advanced Qualitative Research: Methodology and Epistemological Foundations for Planning and Geography
Advanced Planning Theory
Planning Colloquium

Elective Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
Communication in the Face of Power
Advanced Qualitative Research: Methodology and Epistemological Foundations for Planning and Geography
JPG1130HQualitative Data Analysis: Coding, Interpreting, and Writing Qualitative Research
Statistical Testing and Analysis
Independent Study
PLA1150HPlanning Field Trip Course
Advanced Quantitative Methods
Environmental Consequences of Land Use Change
Rural Land Use Planning
Urban Waste Management: an International Perspective
Natural Resources, Difference, and Conflict
Greening the City: Urban Environmental Planning and Management
Political Ecology of Food and Agriculture
Global Urbanism and Cities of the Global South
Space, Time, Revolution
Institutionalism and Cities: Space, Governance, Property, and Power
State/Space/Difference: Understanding the New Social Geography of the State
Housing Policy and Planning
Special Topics in Planning
Governing the Environmental Commons
Place, Politics, and the Urban
JPG1513HToronto Urban Landscapes: Planning, Politics, and Development
Urban Problems
Special Topics in Planning II
Special Topics in Planning III
Sustainability and Urban Communities
City Building — Practice and Experience in Toronto and Other World Cities
JPG1520HContested Geographies of Class-Race Formations
Project Management and Conflict Resolution for Planners
JPG1522HProduction of Space: Aesthetics, Technology, Politics
PLA1525HUrban, Regional, and Community Economic Development
Policy Analysis
Leadership and Management for Planners
Transportation and Urban Form
The History and Geography of Cycles and Cycling
Environmental Planning in a Changing Climate
The Post-Industrial City
Planning and the Social Economy
The Cultural Economy
Organization of Economies and Cities
JPG1621HInnovation and Governance
Planning and Real Estate Development
Introductory Studio in Urban Design and Planning
Advanced Studio in Urban Design and Planning
Urban Design Research Methods
Urban Design and Development Controls
Land Use Planning: Principles and Practice
Regional Dynamics
Regional Economic Analysis
Pedestrians, Streets, and Public Space
Transportation Planning and Infrastructure
Violence and Security
PLA1751HPublic Finance for Planners
Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Gender
Geographies of Postcoloniality and Development: Exploring the ‘Infrastructure Turn’
Spaces of Work: Value, Identity, Agency, Justice
Globalization and Postmodernism
Planning for Change: Community Development in Practice
Social Planning and Policy
Cities and Immigrants
JPG1816HGeographies of Secularism, and Islam and Gender
JPG1817HGeographies of Drug Use: History, Power, and Space
JPG1818HClimate Action and Activism
JPG1820HDisability, Ableism, and Place
JPG1825HBlack Geographies of the Atlantic
JPG1828HPlace and Indigenous Research
JPG1830HUtopia/Dystopia
JPG1835HAnti-Colonial Planning: Theory and Practice
Geographic Information Systems
Advanced Space-Time Data Analysis and Visualization
Geographic Information Systems Research Project
Advanced Seminars in Selected Topics
Advanced Seminars in Selected Topics II
Internship
(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.)