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courses related to planning in the School of Law and the Graduate School of Business Administration, as well as meeting requirements in economics, political science and sociology.
For practical experience, the student planners work daily in a studio where they apply what they are learning to real - life problems in urban design'. Here, especially, each student’s viewpoint is relentlessly challenged by those of his classmates.
In the first major studio project the class worked in pairs, ope architect with one non-architect, on plans to redevelop a neighborhood in Charlottesville. Since each team had to prepare one plan, “we often had to compromise conflicting viewpoints,” said Julia Weston of Staunton.
A political science major from Mount Holyoke College, she worked with architect Stephen Breinling of Berrien Center, Mich., whose ideas are “bold” in his view but "unrealistic” in hers.
“The basic difference is that Julia likes to work with what is already there, and I tend to start from scratch,” explained Breinling, “but it is to our advantage since we both have learned to look at planning problems from n#w perspectives.”
The candid exchange of viewpoints in the classroom also develops a flexibility of approach. “Our goal is to produce generalists who can intelligently analyze the often conflicting aspects of planning problems,” said Robert Hill, a member of the Richmond planning commission who last semester taught the group in a seminar on urban design.
The master’s program in planning and urban design is, with architectural history, one of two graduate programs Offered by the University’s School of Architecture. The school’s undergraduate program in city planning is one of six in the country.
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