Urban Scale Sustainability credit:

3 Hours

Focuses on understanding and conceiving holistic approaches to urban-scaled sustainability challenges, by looking at environmental, economic, and social factors affecting built environments. Emphasis is placed on illustrating individual and collective social roles in producing healthy and robust communities, currently challenged by climate change and environmental degradation. Students will investigate and propose actions ranging from simple gestures like reducing, reusing, and recycling, to highly complex neighborhood, city, and regional design decision-making and policy implementation. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci