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GDES 3B59
Urban Design Ecology
0.50 Credit(s)
Studio/Seminar
Prerequisite: ENVR 2B17 and ENVR 2B19
and 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits)
Urban Design Ecology looks at the city through the lens of Environmental Design with the intention of understanding and designing for the integration of urban and natural systems. The course will examine the way that urban development patterns interact with ecological systems. Students will examine precedents of ecological urbanism such as manufactured nature, green infrastructure, and landscape urbanism as well as broader ecological concepts applied to coupled human-natural systems. Through readings, lectures, seminars and the development of case studies students will examine the relationship between urban form and the environmental context in which it is generated.
Notes: NOT OFFERED IN FALL/WINTER 2012/13
OFFERED IN SUMMER 2012
Course was last updated June 5, 2012 - 5:46 PM