Master of Urban Planning
Specialization : Environment, Infrastructure and Transportation
By specializing in Environment, Infrastructure, and Transportation, students obtain
the planning expertise needed to design and deliver public infrastructure services and
safeguard environmental conditions for public health and welfare. The major goals of
this specialization are to enable students to:
- Obtain skills in evaluating and using knowledge and understanding values and
institutional contexts for environmental and infrastructure planning
- Explore theories and historical trends to evaluate relationships between
environmental condition, public service capacity, and development options, and
consequences of human actions on the environment
- Understand choices about and ways of balancing the use and protection of
environmental resources in urban and natural environmental contexts and
in the context of other social needs
- Engage public interests in the process of environmental, infrastructure
and transportation planning
Students in this specialization have obtained jobs across the spectrum
of the public, non-profit, and private sectors at all jurisdictional levels
and internationally, obtaining planning positions to:
- Develop and incorporate environmental and infrastructure analyses
and plans to shape major development activity as private consultants to
government
- Review and evaluate environmental and infrastructure practices in
state and local government planning and economic development agencies
- Promote education, communication, and public choice processes in
non-profit transportation and environmental organizations
Principal Faculty Advisors:
Courses in the Wagner School
Please note: some courses are taught every other year.
Environmental Focus:
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P11.2615, Environment & Urban Dynamics (Typically offered every other year)
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P11.2610, Environmental Impact Assessment (Typically offered every other year)
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P11.2617, Institute in Environmental Law
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P11.2625, Workshop in Planning and Management of the Urban Waterfront
Infrastructure Focus:
In addition to the recommended Wagner School courses, students may choose electives offered through NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, School of Education, and School of Law. Refer to the registration procedures for courses outside the Wagner School for more information.
Courses in the Program in Environmental Health Sciences:
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G48.1004 (G23.1004), Environmental Health
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G48.1005, Ecotoxicology
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G48.2015-2016, General and Environmental-Toxicological Pathology I-II
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G48.2017, Environmental Radioactivity
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G48.2025, Current Problems in Environmental Health
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G48.2035 (G23.2035), Environmental Hygiene Measurements I
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G48.2036 (G23.2036), Environmental Hygiene Measurements II
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G48.2039, Environmental Epidemiology I
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G48.2044, Environmental Epidemiology II
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G48.2048, Air Pollution Transport and Modeling
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G48.2309 (G23.2309), Systemic Toxicology
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G23.2305, Environmental Contamination
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G48.2310 (G23.2310), Principles of Toxicology
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G48.2315, Environmental Immunotoxicology
(Note: these courses are taught either in Sterling Forest, NY, at the NYU Medical Center (401 E. 30th Street), or on the NYU Washington Square campus.)
Courses in the Department of Biology:
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G23.1004 (G48.1004), Environmental Health
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G23.1006 (G48.1006), Toxicology
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G23.1201, Earth Biology
Courses in the Draper Program:
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G65.1813, Garbage in Gotham: The Anthropology of Trash
Courses in the Program in Environmental Conservation Education:
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E50.2019, Foundations of Environmental Thought
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E50.2070, Environmental Education
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E50.1500, Introduction to Environmental Ethics
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E50.2020, Contemporary Debates in Environmental Ethics
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E50.2021, Environmental Politics
Courses in the Program in Health Education:
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E81.2056, Environmental Health Problems
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L01.3505, Environmental Law
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L01.3508, Advanced Environmental Law
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L02.2505-2506, International Environmental Law Clinic and Seminar
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L02.2510, Environmental Law Clinic