Sensing the Sustainable City

Catalog description

This course explores the role of sensory experience in environmental design, planning, and practice. Beginning with the assertion that sustainable cities must be designed for people (not cars), this course carefully examines the human dimension in the making of healthy, happy, and just human habitats. Timely topics in sustainable urbanism will be examined through the senses, including, for example, biophilia, walkability, happy cities, green aesthetics, and universal design.