Document Type
Professional Plan Capstone
Original Publication Date
2025
Client
Storefront for Community Design
Location
Richmond, Virginia
Date of Submission
May 2025
Abstract
Storefront for Community Design is a non-profit organization in Richmond, Virginia that works to make design programs and resources accessible to all. While honoring this commitment, the organization also devotes resources to educating K-12 students on urban planning processes in the City of Richmond. Using this as a framework, the research creates parameters that guide the best practices for stakeholders such as the client Storefront for Community Design who are invested in producing urban planning educational material and programming. To effectively create recommendations for this client, the professional plan establishes the current state of urban planning education in the Richmond, Virginia study area, examines existing urban planning educational organizations and community partners, as well as exploring the best practices from urban planning organizations that exist outside of Richmond, Virginia. The major findings from the research demonstrate that it is necessary to place an emphasis on actions and procedures which are categorized into 3 major themes. The first is Learning Engagement & Assessment that calls for urban planning lessons to include a variety of learning engagement styles which are experiential, tactile, collaborative, and repetitive as well as including multiple methods of measuring student success. The second is Student-Centered Learning that involves prioritizing the needs and preferences of students when creating lesson plans or programming. The final theme is Resources Utilization which calls for educators to include multiple types of resources in lesson plans.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects
Included in
Education Policy Commons, Gifted Education Commons, Transportation Commons, Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons, Urban Studies Commons, Urban Studies and Planning Commons
