Making Regenerative Cities

Graduate / Professional

This course is a research and design seminar with lectures delivered by a constellation of Yale and guest scientific researchers, scholars, teachers, designers, and engineers in collaboration with partners from science and industry, architecture and engineering practice, policymaking, and finance. The objective of the curriculum is the acceleration of system change across the urban building life cycle through the dissemination and uptake of scientific knowledge and the adoption of innovative implementation strategies in the emerging field of regenerative urban design, development, and resource management. Open to an interdisciplinary cohort of future change-makers in the fields of building design, and urban planning, policy, and governance, the seminar targets thinkers and doers from a range of disciplines and sectors who are uniquely positioned to translate cutting-edge science and novel approaches to design and policy development directly into everyday practice, all while recursively informing ongoing inquiry, research, and experimentation by industry and institutions of higher learning. By laying the groundwork for deeply synergistic relationships between terrestrial ecosystems and the construction economies and planning policies that inevitably draw upon them, the seminar explores means to create socially vibrant and healthy urban communities that simultaneously incentivizing the restoration and stabilization of landscapes that offer our cities invaluable ecosystem services. From silviculture to infrastructure, from material science to urban planning, the Regenerative Human Settlements seminar offers multiple entry points throughout complex material cycles and socioeconomic processes to catalyze innovative urban planetary solutions and spark system change. 3 Course cr T 9:25am-11:20am