What is UrbanPlan?

UrbanPlan is a realistic, engaging curriculum developed by the Fisher School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. It provides participants with hands-on experience addressing the issues, trade-offs, and economics of land-use planning and urban redevelopment. Provided in various formats, UrbanPlan has been delivered to high school, undergraduate, and graduate students, and public officials and community leaders around the world.

Mission

To create a more sophisticated level of discourse among local stakeholders involved in land use decisions, so we can create better communities.

Impact

Through UrbanPlan, participants discover how the forces of our market economy clash and collaborate with the non-market forces of our representative democracy to create the built environment.

People who complete the program understand that:

1. The built environment does not happen by accident or by mandate.

2. Good development must accommodate market realities as well as public needs and desires.

3. Our actions as citizens and consumers influence what is built, when it is built, and where it is built.