Case Studies in Sustainability

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This course will be structured to enable students to more broadly appreciate the complex dynamics of, and processes involved in, implementing successful sustainable development initiatives. Students will study and critique completed (or in some cases `in-progress) projects. These may vary in terms of scale and in typology from individual buildings, to urban or neighborhood developments, or more complex civil infrastructural systems. The organization of the course will reveal a critical point of view and thematic approach to sustainability that unifies the projects being explored in detail. Lectures and readings will emphasize the crucial role of stakeholder involvement and cross-disciplinary partnership that are the basis of holistic, integrated designs. The course will combine seminar lectures, participant presentation of assignment exercises, and presentations of final projects.