Urban Infrastructure Anatomy and Sustainable Development

Catalog description

Understanding how built environment infrastructure systems interact with ecosystem services is critical for policies and decisions directing urban sustainability. Brings together students from several disciplines to develop a semester-long research project focused on a particular urban sustainability problem in Phoenix. During the semester, students are given background on how infrastructure systems work and are interdependent, and explore tools and methods for urban sustainability assessment with peers from several disciplines. As a class, students evaluate a particular urban sustainability problem for Phoenix, interact with local policy and decision makers in developing solutions, and present their findings at the end of the semester to the ASU community.