Stage Three courses
2025
BUrbPlan(Hons) part III enrolments:
- Semester One:
- URBPLAN 307, 321, 325
- Semester Two:
- URBPLAN 323, 326
- a General Education course
URBPLAN 307 - Negotiation, Mediation and Project Management
- Course Prescription: Provides a critical understanding of negotiation, mediation and project management methods and skills for urban planning, and management types, cultures and consensus-building for private practices and in local and central government agencies. Includes analysing trade-offs or synergies, negotiating solutions and project management and planning in New Zealand as relevant to urban planning practice.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Prerequisite: URBPLAN 205, 221-223, 225, 226
- Points: 15
URBPLAN 321 - Urban Policy Analysis, Development and Research Skills
- Course prescription: Provides a critical understanding of the role public policy plays in practice and how to analyse and develop effective, creative outcome-focused policy solutions for urban planning through the application of quantitative and qualitative research skills and methods.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Restriction: URBPLAN 301
- Prerequisite: URBPLAN 205, 221-223, 225, 226 or 30 points passed in Global Environment and Sustainable Development
- Points: 15
URBPLAN 323 - Māori Planning
- Course prescription: A critical understanding of traditional and contemporary relationships between tangata whenua and the urban environment, the theoretical and practical application of a Māori worldview for urban planning practice in Aotearoa New Zealand, and how the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process will impact and influence urban planning.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Restriction: URBPLAN 305
- Prerequisite: URBPLAN 205, 221-223, 225, 226
- Points: 15
URBPLAN 325 - Urban Planning Studio 4
- Course prescription: Provides a critical understanding of the importance and integration of land use with transport (including active travel options), green infrastructure (including three waters and social infrastructure), and sustainability of a town centre development, while taking into account realistic funding models, costs and benefits, through a studio-based design exercise.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Prerequisite: URBPLAN 205, 221-223, 225, 226
- Points: 30
URBPLAN 326 - Urban Planning Studio 5
- Course prescription: Explores social, environmental, design, or technological methods and processes, and applications of qualitative, quantitative, and/or geospatial research skills required for the creation of resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban places, forms and spaces. Provides an understanding of urban and rural interactions, or regional environmental, infrastructure or land use issues in light of significant urban growth pressures.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Prerequisite: URBPLAN 205, 221-223, 225, 226
- Points: 30