University of Arizona

College of Social Sciences

Areas of Concentation: Environmental/Healthy Cities Concentration

Planning Environmental/Healthy Cities Planning offers a linkage between environmental planning and planning for healthy cities and communities. It focuses on the interactions between human actions and the built environment and on the management of natural resources and takes a comprehensive approach to the connections between community and individual health and the environment. Students with a social science background may prefer a social approach to these topics, while students with a natural science background may prefer to further their education in natural resource management. Students are required to take four core courses and then out of five electives take two to three additional substantive courses within planning.

Course Description: Environmental and Healthy City Planning

In this class, students will learn about and understand the core foundations and principles of envrionmental planning. The class prepares students to plan for healthy cities and communities. It discusses the foundations of environment and planning and the concept of sustainability, and focuses more specifically on environmental planning as it relates to urban form, air and water quality, and natural hazards.