Urban Sustainability

Catalog description

Prerequisite: Completion of the Core Curriculum Research & Professional Writing requirement, and UST 289 or UST 290. Presents the values, trends and methods of planning for environmentally sustainable cities and regions. Focuses on urban sustainability and built form, including buildings, designed green spaces, urban water systems, energy and economic change. Students become familiar with processes that generate the physical landscape and the impacts of human settlements on natural landscapes. Students become familiar with the three “E’s” of sustainability, environment, economics and equity.