Planners must understand how cities, towns, and regions are structured and how to create and evaluate plans that maintain and improve the quality of life in those communities.
The School of Environmental Design Community and Regional Planning program provides students with a broad-based understanding and awareness of multi-dimensional land-use and planning issues. Students develop an understanding of the physical and economic issues of planning, a sensitivity to the social and environmental impact of planning decisions, and a knowledge of the governmental structures as they apply to planning.
Students with degrees in Planning have many employment options in the public and private sectors. There is an urgent need for planners in this region and throughout the nation.
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Graduate Degree
The Department of Community and Regional Planning offers graduate work leading to the Master of Science degree. The primary purpose of the program is to develop skilled practitioners for the dynamic and growing field of community and regional planning in government, non-profit, and private sectors. These skills place students in the front lines of efforts to create and maintain sustainable communities.
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Areas of Specialization
Planners must understand how cities, towns, and regions are structured and how to create and evaluate plans that maintain and improve the quality of life in those communities.
The M.S. in Community and Regional Planning (CRP) addresses problems affecting large portions of the American population. In particular, the Philadelphia suburbs, including Ambler in Montgomery County, are experiencing the difficulties associated with population increases: the exponential growth of schools without an adequate tax base; the stress on groundwater and other aspects of the natural environment; the loss of open land to tract housing; the construction of shopping malls and the accompanying decline of small central towns; and the emphasis on the automobile at the expense of public transportation.
CRP courses help students to develop skills to address these issues by emphasizing the preparation of the urban/suburban land use plan, including data collection, site analysis and evaluation of location, market, transportation, and environmental factors.
Private, public and non-profit employment opportunities are strong for graduate degree holders based on current need and a projected growth for the next decade.
