Urban Greening Lab:

Catalog description

This course provides a comprehensive examination of the city's urban ecology and approaches to urban planning, while introducing their history, and the correlations between the city's built structure, urban nature and culture. The course combines lectures, workshops and site visits to several facets of the city's 'green' past and present. The course investigates the city's 'green' structures in relation to the economic, socio-cultural, and political processes that shape it, while placing an emphasis on sustainable ideas and projects and how they influence the city's built structure.