Specialization : Environment, Infrastructure and Transportation

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:

Rae Zimmerman

Courses in the Wagner School

Please note: some courses are taught every other year.

Environmental Focus:

P11.2615, Environment & Urban Dynamics (Typically offered every other year)
P11.2610, Environmental Impact Assessment (Typically offered every other year)
P11.2617, Institute in Environmental Law
P11.2625, Workshop in Planning and Management of the Urban Waterfront

Infrastructure Focus:

P11.2612, Urban Infrastructure and Environmental Services (Typically offered every other year)
P11.2470, Transportation Policy
P11.2641, Urban Transportation Planning (Fall)
P11.2991/2, Transportation courses at Polytechnic University of New York (see the Polytechnic University web site for course descriptions and schedules, and refer to the registration procedures for courses outside the Wagner School)

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 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Courses in the Program in Environmental Health Sciences:

G48.1004 (G23.1004), Environmental Health
G48.1005, Ecotoxicology
G48.2015-2016, General and Environmental-Toxicological Pathology I-II
G48.2017, Environmental Radioactivity
G48.2025, Current Problems in Environmental Health
G48.2035 (G23.2035), Environmental Hygiene Measurements I
G48.2036 (G23.2036), Environmental Hygiene Measurements II
G48.2039, Environmental Epidemiology I
G48.2044, Environmental Epidemiology II
G48.2048, Air Pollution Transport and Modeling
G48.2309 (G23.2309), Systemic Toxicology
G23.2305, Environmental Contamination
G48.2310 (G23.2310), Principles of Toxicology
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: