What Is UrbanPlan and Who Created It?

UrbanPlan (UP) is a realistic, engaging, and academically challenging classroom-based, web-supported, 15 class-hour unit for the economics and government curriculum in which high school juniors and seniors learn the public and private sector roles, issues, trade-offs, and economics involved in urban development.

Rigorously Tested Standards-Based Content

The curriculum aligns with state and national content standards for high school economics and provides a much-needed local government component to government & civics classes. UP employs best practices of project and problem-based learning.

UP was field-tested for 3 semesters, in required basic curriculum courses by economics and government teachers, in five traditional California public high schools with over 700 high school juniors and seniors producing a program that is highly engaging and rewarding for students and teachers.

Created by Academics, Educators, and Land Use Professionals

The Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California, Berkeley developed UrbanPlan in collaboration with The Urban Land Institute (ULI), a national non-profit organization of public and private sector land use professionals, and high school economics and government teachers.