PLAN 433Social Issues in Planning

This course will focus on the key social issues within planning such as inequality, displacement, and discrimination. Students will learn about growing levels of social and spatial inequality within Canadian cities and the role of planning in both exacerbating and reducing these divisions. Students will also learn about the relationship between social planning and land use planning, including how transportation inequalities impact urban and social change. Students will enhance their understanding of how major forces of change, such as deindustrialization and globalization, impact communities in different ways at the neighbourhood, city, and regional scale.