Comprehensive Project

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the master's degree, students are required in the second year to complete either a thesis or one of two comprehensive examination plans, Plan A (a client project) or Plan B (the two-week examination).

As an alternative under Plan A, students may take courses UP 217A-217B Comprehensive Project for eight units credit to fulfill the comprehensive examination requirement. The comprehensive project counts as the equivalent of two courses and spans two quarters.  The project class brings together students of varying backgrounds and interests to jointly solve an urban planning problem.

Comprehensive Projects are available at the Southern Regional Library Facility (310 206-2013).     For instructions on how to locate a project from the YRL catalog click here [1].

Recent comprehensive project topics are listed below:

• A Roadmap to GreenManufacturing in Los Angeles: Policies, Planning, and Partnership for Quality Jobs [2] (S12)
• Connect in Burbank:  Linking High Speed Rail, Air Travel and Business to Create a Vibrant, Mixed-Use District (S12) vol. 1 [3] vol. 2 [4]
• Games for Change [5] (S'11) [6]
• Tools for a Greener Economy [6] (S'10)
• Metro Orange Line Sepulveda Station Transit Oriented Development Capstone Studio [7] ('10)
• Boyle Heights Brilla [8]('09)
• Fighting for a Right to the City: Collaborative Research to Support Community Organizing in L.A. [9] (S'07)
• Housing the City: An Analysis of Barriers and Strategies to Increase Housing Density in Los Angeles [10](S'05)
• "Just" Redevelopment: Lessons from the Figueroa Corridor Coalition (S'04)
• Los Angeles in the World Economy: Transnational Community Development in Greater North America [11] (S'04)
• Poverty Reduction and Development: A Cross-Country Analysis (S'03)
• A Critique of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (S'02)
• Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (Ethiopia [12]; Nicaragua [13]; Vietnam [14]) (S'01)
• Participatory Democracy and Coalition Building--Organizing for Social Change in L.A.'s Communities and Workplaces [15] (S'01)
• "Cornfield of Dreams: A Resource Guide of Facts, Issues & Principles" (S'00)
• "California in the World Economy"(S'00)
• "Banking on Blight: Redevelopment in Post-proposition 13 in California" [16] (S’99)
• "The Byzantine – Latino Quarter" [17] (S’98)
• "Learning for a Change: Experiences in Popular Education in Los Angeles" [18](Sum ’98)
• "Asian Pacific American Entrepreneurship and Community Economic Development" (S’97)
• Regional Integration and Development in North America@ (S’96)
• Putting Capital in its Place: The Los Angeles Worker Ownership Project@ (S’96)
• The Los Angeles Manufacturing Action Project: A Feasibility Study for Organizing Strategies in the Alameda Corridor@ (F’95)
• Seeds of Change: Strategies for Food Security in the Inner City (Sum ’95)
• Affirming Communities: Responsive Neighborhood Cultural Planning (S'92)
• The Widening Divide: Income Inequality and Poverty in Los Angeles [19]('89)

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