The program in City Planning seeks to provide a strong general grounding in planning education that is enriched through local institutional and geographic contexts, and that builds upon the strengths of staff.

Three studio courses form the core of the curriculum. These involve students in useful work with local partners. These studios provide sequential experience in inner city areas and neighbourhoods, at the scale of the city and its region, and with urban aboriginals. In these settings, students have the opportunity to integrate their previous education, travel and work knowledge with courses in planning theory, urban ecology, housing and urban revitalization, and urban development, among others.

In addition to fulfilling course requirements, students undertake an internship in the summer months between their 1st and 2nd years in the program to gain planning work experience. Their major degree project (MDP) also enables students to develop a topic of their own particular interest, for exploration in terms of a thesis or a practicum or a design.

Graduate students in the program have the opportunity to work with many other Environmental Design faculty and students, as the Department of City Planning operates within the multidisciplinary Faculty of Architecture. The Faculty represents a unique consortium of five programs of studies offering undergraduate and graduate and graduate professional education in environmental design, interior design, architecture, city planning and landscape architecture. Within the larger university community, our students have been able to draw upon the resources of the Natural Resources Institute, and the departments of anthropology, geography, human ecology, engineering, native studies and other divisions.

YEAR 1
CITY 7030	Planning Theory 1	3
CITY 7070	Housing and Urban Revitalisation	3
CITY 7350	Thesis/Practicum Preparation	0
CITY 7410	Planning Design 1	6
CITY 7420	Planning Design 2	6
CITY 7460	Urban Ecology and Environmental Management	3
	Total	21
YEAR 2
CITY 7310	Law and Local Government	3
CITY 7340	Urban Development	3
CITY 7470	Professional Planning Practice	3
EITHER
CITY 7430	Planning Design 3 (Urban Design)	6
OR
CITY 7440	Planning Design 4	6
	Total	15
GRAD 7000	Thesis	0
GRAD 7030	Practicum	0
	Elective Course Offerings Required	9
	Total Program Credit Hours	45