Resilience: Project Energos, Nevada, Japan, Taiwan

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This seminar explores a broad range of topics around the subject of Resilience and Sustainability. We will use a green infrastructure property development currently under construction in real time as our focus, Project Energos, a massive green field site in Nevada by Los Angeles developer TerraScale. This research seminar will support a subsequent 700-level studio offering in Fall. Students are welcome to enroll in this seminar with or without taking the studio. The subject is relevant to all students interested in understanding how action is currently being taken in the United States through a global lens advancing a resilient agenda.