This introductory graduate seminar will examine major theories and ideas of environmental design and planning. The epistemology of design will serve as a framework to review critical theory in contemporary landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and urban design. Normative theories of design and planning will be reviewed along with relevant theories form the social and environmental sciences. The texts for the seminar will Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader by Simon Swaffield; Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture by James Corner; and Good City Form by Kevin Lynch.

For more information, contact Mark Francis at 752-6031 or mofrancis@ucdavis.edu.