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Community & Regional Planning (starts in Fall 2002),
MS
The Community and Regional Planning Program 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. Graduates of the program will possess the requisite theoretical and practical skills to address the increasingly complex problems stemming from urban sprawl. Students develop an understanding of the physical and economic issues of planning, sensitivity to the social and environmental impact of planning decisions and knowledge of the governmental structures as they apply to planning. These skills will place students in the front lines of efforts to create and maintain sustainable communities. The program builds on the traditions already established in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, which has a long history of involvement with land use issues, and the new Center for Sustainable Communities. The new degree program will serve as a national model for conducting applied planning research and developing highly skilled planning professionals.
Campus
Location:
Ambler, Fort Washington
Required courses will be offered in the evening at the Ambler campus. Electives will be available at the Ambler or Fort Washington campuses. Students may choose to take those electives, when available, at other Temple campuses.
Students are required to complete the degree program through classes offered after 4:30 p.m. Students able to complete the degree program on a part-time basis (8 credit hours or less per semester).
Department
Information
Department of Community and Regional Planning
Ambler College
Temple University Ambler
580 Meetinghouse Road
Ambler PA 19002
yannella@temple.edu
215-283-1528
Ranking:
N/A
Accreditation:
False
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) emphasizes land use planning, a specialty that 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: for example, 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, 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.
Job
Placement:
Graduates of the program will possess the requisite theoretical and practical skills to address the increasingly complex problems stemming from urban sprawl. Private, public, and non-profit employment opportunities in this planning specialty are strong for graduate degree holders based on current need and a projected growth for the next decade.
Affiliation(s):
The Community & Regional Planning program is affiliated with the Center for Sustainable Communities in the Ambler College.
Interdisciplinary
Study :
The curriculum of the program is interdisciplinary in nature. Planning is an interdisciplinary inquiry and application.
Study
Abroad:
No
Licensure:
False
Non-degree
Student Policy:
Non-matriculated students are restricted to taking the following required CRP courses: CRP 401 and 403. Elective courses may be chosen with adviser approval and according to the guidelines established by the department offering the course. The Graduate School policy on credit limitations applies.
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