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Apr 20, 2025
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GEOG 8216 - Planning for Urban Sustainability
Engages students in reading, discussion, and guided research on the dilemmas of urban sustainability and planning approaches to address these dilemmas. Examines the concept of sustainability critically, comparing its diverse applications and meanings as a guide for decisions in the built environment. Explores the social and physical structures that make radical change difficult, as well as innovations in city planning like ecological footprinting, climate action planning, smart growth, bus rapid transit, energy-efficient technologies, the sharing economy, and grassroots movements for alternative communities like ecovillages. Although the course engages scholarship from all over the world, and explores innovations in Latin American and some European cities, most of the discussion focuses on problems and solutions specific to the United States.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6216
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2020
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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