| 1 | Course Overview | |
| 2-3 | The Ideology of Progress, Modernization, Development and Planning | |
| 4-5 | Historical Awareness of the Origins of Developmental Planning | |
| 6-7 | Anti-Planning Arguments | |
| 8 | Why Still Believe in Planning? The Reasons for a Hopeful View | |
| 9 | Information Session for Case Studies Selected for Student Presentations | First Case Study: A Glimpse of Developmental Planning: The Case of Housing and Infrastructure Provision in Lusaka, Zambia |
| 10 | Organizational Understanding: How Bureaucracies Work or Do Not Work | First essay due |
| 11 | Student Presentations - Lusaka Case Study | |
| 12 | How Planning Decisions are Made or How Decisions Happen | |
| 13 | Components of Good Practice: Getting "Things" Done | |
| 14 | Organizational Understanding: Working with Market Institutions | |
| 15 | Organizational Understanding: NGOs as Development Agents | |
| 16 | Organizational Understanding: Communities and Collective Action | |
| 17 | Information Session for Case Studies Selected for Student Presentations | Second Case Study: Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz |
| 18 | Organizational Understanding: International Institutions | |
| 19 | Student Presentations - La Paz Case Study | |
| 20 | Legal Sensibilities | |
| 21 | Political Savvy | |
| 22 | Learning from Practice: Meeting with SPURS/Humphrey Fellows | |
| 23 | Reflective Practitioner | |
| 24 | Synthesis for the Class | |
| 25 | Final Class Wrap-up | Final assignment due |
