This website will provide the most up to date information regarding RPTS 402.
COURSE WORK & MATERIALS

 
Lectures   Projects

1) Concept of Sustainability
2) Landscape Perception
3) Restorative Environments

4) Prospect Refuge - Examples
5) Politics - Examples
6) Ladder of Participation & Planning Process
7) Greenways & Green Infrastructure

8) Trails as Experiences - Examples
9 ) NRPA Park Classifications
10 ) Site Design
11) Site Design Three Mile Campground

12) Mark Spencer - Site Design

13) Conservation Design
14) Objectives of Play

 

Information about the class project will be made available here.

     
Lab Assignments   Additional Readings
1) Eco Footprint
2) Design Review Board - Assignment, Packet
3) Community Gateways - AssignmentPacket
4) Restorative Environments
  What's an Accessible Trail?
     
Course Assignments    

Meeting Papers (Full Information PDF)

Special Meeting Opportunties - CIP "listening sessions" 1) Wed., Jan 23, 7:00pm, College Station Middle School, Rock Prairie Road

2) Wed., Jan 30, 7:00pm, Pebble Creek Elementary School, Pebble Creek Subdivision

Two are required with each being worth 10% of your final grade. (check calendar for due dates)

The purpose of attending a local government or interest group meeting is to get some feel for the way the local government/citizen process works and to think about how it might influence the planning/design process.

To fulfill this requirement you must attend at least one meeting you may elect to watch one of these meetings via Channel 19 or as streaming video at the http://www.cstx.gov website.

 

Choose or Lose (Full Information PDF)

Worth 10% of your overall grade (see calendar for due date) The purpose of this assignment is to allow you freedom to choose a topic related to the course and a method of delivering that topic. If you do not choose a topic you lose these points.

You may submit a poem, a graphic of some type, conduct and write up an interview, make a brief verbal presentation to the class, make a video or come up with another alternative (check it with me).

The stipulations are:
1)It should address a topic we have covered in planning and design as applied to park, recreation and/or tourism places;
2)it must represent a reasonable effort and be professional in appearance and;
3)it must include visuals of some kind (for example, drawings, photos, video, model) and a written or verbal component.