The CRP Lobos are students taking CRP 165 at the University of New Mexico in the Fall 2018 semester. "CRP" comes from the class name and subject - "Community and Regional Planning", and "Lobos" comes from the UNM mascot, Louie Lobo.
UNM is New Mexico’s Flagship University, located in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, with branch campuses in Taos, Los Lunas, and Rio Rancho. An R1 research university, UNM offers over 200 degree programs in a wide variety of fields. As a minority serving institution where minorities actually outnumber the majority, UNM students come from diverse ethnicities, backgrounds, and places.
The CRP (Community and Regional Planning) program at UNM is housed under the School of Architecture and Planning. Our class, CRP 165 (Intro to Community and Regional Planning) is an intro course into the subject, and for many students, is their first contact with the subject. Though it is a required course for certain planning majors, students in a variety of majors take this course as an elective or simply to enrich their knowledge of planning. Our class
This site serves as the CRP 165 class midterm. Every two weeks, students wrote “Reflection & Synthesis” discussion posts, in which they explained and remarked on topics that stood out to them in class, and then provided feedback on other students posts. These posts culminated in individual student blog posts, which can be found on this site under each student's name.
Throughout the course so far, we have covered two main phases: Planning Identity & Social Structures (which explores concepts such as wicked problems, place & identity, affordances, and social issues) and The Origins of Urbanization, Settlement Patterns & Trends (which tackles the history of planning from ancient civilizations through the modern epoch). Student blogs introduce particular topics from these phases, as well as providing their own questions, commentary, and relative experiences.