DESIGNING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES SEMINAR
Sustainable community planning and design principles aimed at promoting human health and wellbeing as it relates to the quality of the physical environment. Special topics include access to settings that promote physical activity, social interaction and mental restoration; walk- and bikeability; access healthy food, complete streets, place-making, and biophilic design, active living assessment tools, and architectural sustainability certification systems focusing on the health benefits of good community design.
Topics
- access to settings that promote physical activity
- social interaction and mental restoration
- walk- and bikeability
- access healthy food
- complete streets
- place-making
- and biophilic design
- active living assessment tools
- and architectural sustainability certification systems focusing on the health benefits of good community design
Topics explicitly listed in official catalogue description
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2021 Learning Outcomes: 1. Think critically about the impact the physical environment has on people and the role environmental designers play in creating healthy places. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify and summarize relevant literature by noted authors in the field and encourage them to seek further knowledge by exploring research, precedents and best-case scenarios. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate knowledge about health problems that intersect with the physical environment. Audience: Graduate 4. Integrate environment-health performance standards and metrics and their functional value in design programming. Audience: Graduate 5. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of active living in the built environment. Audience: Graduate 6. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of health promotion through planning and design of public open space. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Think critically about the impact the physical environment has on people and the role environmental designers play in creating healthy places. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify and summarize relevant literature by noted authors in the field and encourage them to seek further knowledge by exploring research, precedents and best-case scenarios. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate knowledge about health problems that intersect with the physical environment. Audience: Graduate 4. Integrate environment-health performance standards and metrics and their functional value in design programming. Audience: Graduate 5. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of active living in the built environment. Audience: Graduate 6. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of health promotion through planning and design of public open space. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027