BOCEP: Economic Development Studio (CM | 14.0)
Instructor:Â L. Nicolas Ronderos is Senior Planner for Community Development at Regional Plan Association. His work focuses on the interrelation between transportation, land use and real estate.
Instructor:Â L. Nicolas Ronderos is Senior Planner for Community Development at Regional Plan Association. His work focuses on the interrelation between transportation, land use and real estate.
In this course, learners will serve as a consulting team to leaders of a community engaged in arts-based community or economic development. Learners will assess the challenges faced by the client, provide a leadership diagnosis, and offer recommendations to help civic or cultural leaders in the community be more effective.
Learners in this course will gain mastery over the fundamentals of urban design. In this interactive course, learners will use a variety of tools to learn urban design vocabulary, understand key concepts, and the ability to analyze and evaluate design strategies.
This course combines the best elements of the two Writing Studios. Part 1 focuses on short forms, such as emails and memos. Part 2 focuses on plans and projects. This course will be offered in an innovative way: through our standard BOCEP online format and through web conferences.
This course helps students understand and work with one of the most basic tools of housing development: market analyses. This course explores content, methods, techniques, information sources, and presentation styles.
Co-sponsored by the American Planning Association – NJ Chapter and Drew University, this course explores the particular challenge of preserving historic resources in New Jersey’s urban areas in the face of development pressure, the high cost of adaptive reuse, the unintended effects of public policies, and the low number of traditional historic-preservation stakeholders.
Learners in this course will gain mastery over the fundamentals of urban design. In this interactive course, learners will use a variety of tools to learn urban design vocabulary, understand key concepts, and the ability to analyze and evaluate design strategies.
The Future City Competition is a part of the National Engineers Week activities; the program was developed for seventh and eighth grade students to help them discover and foster interests in math, science and engineering. The team that wins the regional competition each year receives an all-expense paid trip to the national finals in Washington, DC in February.