URBN PL 274Introduction to Physical Planning
Urban Planning · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Lecture/workshop, 90 minutes; discussion, 90 minutes. Designed for students with no prior physical planning background and for first-year MA students in community development and built environment, design and development, and transportation policy and planning concentrations. Introductory overview of physical planning, land use, site analysis, and surveys; regulatory structures and social/community impacts.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
URBN PL 274
- URBN PL 273Site Planning
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.