USC Courses on Urban Futures

RED 509 Market Analysis for Real Estate Development 
Market analysis in a political, public, and planning context. Project impact analysis and impact fee calculations, technical aspects of market studies. Growth forecasts and master planning.

PLUS 539 Housing and Urban Demography
Theory and policy regarding population change in urban areas: housing; cohort analysis; immigration; ethnicity; employment; education. Methods of graphic representation; census data manipulation, interpretation, forecasting.

PLUS 561 Environmental Impacts
Legal, political/institutional, and technical aspects of environmental impact reports for urban planning.

PLUS 580 Urban Transportation Planning and Management
Background applications of established urban travel forecasting procedures; land use; trip-generation, trip-distribution, modal-choice, trip-assignment; evaluation; criticisms.

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University of Southern California 
School of Policy, Planning, and Development 
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626 
Phone: (213) 740-7095  FAX: (213) 740-1801 
email: dowell@rcf.usc.edu