Urban Soil Studies: From Field to Lab to Design

Harvard GSD

Aimed primarily toward soils and plant growth, and taught collaboratively by a landscape architect and an urban ecologist, this course provides basic understandings of soils in natural, human-impacted, and constructed landscapes. Students will be introduced to modern principles of soil science and ecology and the application of this knowledge to working with soil and other plant-growing media involved in the process of designing, constructing and maintaining or curating urban landscapes.…