CPYPLAN 110 FALL 2023 PAPER - CITY PLANNING DOCUMENT ANALYSIS (2)
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CP 110 F2023 INTRODUCTION TO CITY PLANNING – UC BERKELEY
INSTRUCTORS:
LARICE – AGUINALDO - EVANS
ASSIGNMENT 1: CITY PLANNING DOCUMENT ANALYSIS
INTRODUCTION:
Over the semester you will write one paper that deals with the analysis of planning in a city of
your choice. In your paper, you are expected to describe the structure and contents of your city’s most
important planning document, prior to analyzing it in terms of a filter you select for analysis.
For this paper you
will be trying to understand how a city’s plan is organized and made operational.
From the following three
filters, you will select one of these as the focus of your analysis:
1. Social justice and Equity; 2.
Sustainability and
Climate Change; or, 3.
Livability and Quality of Life.
This exercise is, in total, worth 30% of your final grade.
THE ASSIGNMENT:
Assume you are a consultant hired by a city to provide feedback on the quality of their city’s
plan as a prelude to the next plan that will be written over the next couple years. The city government and
mayor’s office are interested in better knowing the contents of their current plan, which many of them have
never read.
Your task is twofold:
1. To write a briefing paper that describes the plan in terms of its structure,
contents, key elements, and policies; and 2. Provide an analysis of the plan in terms of its social justice/equity,
sustainability/climate change; or livability/quality of life (for which you will have to define these terms within
your analysis).
An outline has been given to you in organizing your briefing paper and its analysis; this outline is below. Before
you begin with your paper, please read the plan in its entirety. You must go beyond skimming the plan to
complete the assignment.
1.
An introduction
to the task at hand, write an introduction to the paper that details what
you will be accomplishing in this briefing paper that covers the twofold aspect of the paper.
This introduction will include the city name, plan name and type, details on the production
of the plan, its date, time horizon, who wrote it, and the filter you have chosen by which you
will analyze the plan and the rationale for why you chose this city and why you chose this
filter.
2.
Select a city
,
whose population exceeds 250,000 people. This is the city population and not
the population of the metro area. This city can be North American or elsewhere on the
globe. If you select a city outside Canada or the United States, you must be able to read the
language in which the plan has been written. If you select a foreign city, you should know
that plan types are more varied, and differently structured than a US general plan or a
Canadian vision plan. You should be clear in describing the plan type you find regardless of
which city you choose. It must be the
primary planning document
and not a sectoral or
subfield plan (i.e., transportation plan, housing plan) or a neighborhood or area-specific
plan.
PART ONE:
DESCRIBING THE CURRENT PLAN
3.
The type and structure of the plan.
What type of planning document is it? What was the
purpose and reason for selecting this plan type.?
Is it a general, vision, or structure plan?
Provide a structured table of contents for the plan. How is the plan organized? Focus on key
2
elements of the plan and what it includes. But also, has anything been overlooked in the
structure of the document?
4.
What is the primary focus or key message of plan?
In any plan, the reader should be able
to identify the trajectory of the plan, what it says and what its primary concerns are. After
identifying these primary concerns does the plan set out to rectify them?
Is the city
completing this plan because they are forced to do so? Or is this plan focused on some type
of problem solving or vision for the future?
PART TWO:
CONTENT DISCOVERY RELATIVE TO THE FILTER
1.
Discuss and define your filter of analysis.
Introduce the filter of your analysis. There should
be a relationship between your filter and issues in the city.
Make sure that nexus is clear.
2.
What does your plan contain relative to your chosen filter?
Do a word search within the
plan for your chosen filter. For 1. Social justice and Equity, search for ‘social justice,’ ‘justice,’
‘equity,’ ‘equality,’ ‘environmental justice,’ and ‘economic justice;’ for 2.
Sustainability and
Climate Change, search for ‘sustain,’ ‘sustainable,’ ‘sustainability,’ ‘social sustainability,’
economic sustainability,’ ‘environmental sustainability,’ and ‘climate change;’ for, 3.
Livability and Quality of Life, search for ‘livable,’ ‘livability,’ ‘quality of life,’ ‘wellbeing,’
‘public health,’ and ‘safety.’ These word searches should help you to identify places where
you should read more deeply and where to potentially focus your analysis.
3.
Outline the filter-based content within the plan:
Following your key word search, identify
where your filter comes up in the plan’s language. Beyond this simple word search, you may
need to read between the lines of the plan’s writing to discover other areas where these
themes are filters are mentioned or spoken about without direct mention. Do this is a
rigorous way and identify wherever your filter area is mentioned either directly or indirectly.
To what degree is the filter represented in the plan? Is it lightly touched upon? Is it a major
theme of the larger plan? Discuss or point out where the filter is most directly discussed.
Alternatively, you might discuss the filter’s absence and what this suggests about the overall
direction of planning for the city? Depending on the time horizon of the plan (an older 20-
year plan versus a current 5 year plan) your filter may be more or less represented. Produce
some way of expressing this, whether it is narrative text or a chart showing chapter and
page.
PART THREE:
ANAYLZING THE CURRENT PLAN THROUGH YOUR SELECTED FILTER
6.
Describe the social justice, sustainability, or livability challenge within the city.
You will
not be able to apply your analytical filter until you describe the magnitude of the problem
in your city.
Describe how the challenge manifests itself.
You will have to spread your
research net widely, unless it is directly described in the plan document itself. You may
need to use conjecture or hypothesize the city’s capacity to address the city’s capacity to
address their challenges. Other documents relating to the challenges might exist outside
the planning documents, if so, mention these here. For example, the city might have a
sustainability plan separate from its general plan. Do not describe at length the content of
these plans, just that they exist and what they generally cover.
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