DESCRIPTION/ The course will consider the design and retrofit of communities for sustainability, with a special emphasis on greenhouse gas (GHG) production as it relates to community and regional design
COURSE STRUCTURE/ This course is organized around seven rules for sustainability as contained in my book, The Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies for a Low Carbon Future.
EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES/ By the end of this course students will:
1. Understand a way of thinking of the various systems that make up a sustainable community, and how they work together.
2. Work in seminar sessions with other students interactively to debate these issues and assive at alternative models, and/or ways of re-enforcing this model.
3. Integrate the most basic elements of the theories presented, and the facts on the ground that support these theories.
4. Apply these strategies to a case study site.
5. Know how to write coherently on the broad issue of sustainable community design.
EVALUATION: Grades will be assigned on:
| 20% |
assignment 1 |
| 20% |
assignment 2 |
| 15% |
assignment 3/ part 1- the district |
| 20% |
assignment 3/ part 2- the neighborhood |
| 15% |
assignment 3/ part 2- the parcel |
| 10% |
participation and attendance |
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