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The Graduate City Planning Program prepares students to function as professionals who are capable of understanding and resolving planning problems in depth. To enable students to focus their education on a consistent and cumulative body of knowledge, the Program offers the following seven specializations:  

Economic Development  | Environmental Planning and Management | Geographic Information Systems  | Land Development  | Land Use Planning  | Transportation  | Urban Design

Land Use Planning

Land use planning strives to order the various physical components of the city for optimal use. It is comprehensive in nature and combines physical, as well as social and environmental concerns.  Techniques for the management of urban growth and control of the impacts of growth are central to this specialization.

The two required courses in the land use specialization are:

• Introduction to Land Use Planning

• Land Use Planning Methods

Additional land use courses include the following:

• Policy Tools for Environmental Management

• Introduction to Transportation Planning

• Introduction to GIS

• Sustainable Urban Development

• Land Use and Transportation Interaction

• Principles of Real Estate Finance and Development

• Real Estate Market Research

• Special Topics: Land Conservation and Preservation

• Environmental Planning and Impact Assessment

• Applied Real Estate Methods

• Earth Systems (Public Policy course)

Courses at Georgia State University

• Urban Economics

• Land Use Law

• Urban Political Economy

• Local Government and Management

• Metropolitan Atlanta