CRP 3840 - Green Cities

Spring. 3 credits.

Counts as Land Use & Environment Area Requirement for URS students. Co-meeting with CRP 5840.

S. Schmidt.

For the first time in history, a majority of human beings live in cities. As a result, any realistic solution to the global ecological crisis will need to include strategies for urban life that are ecologically sound. This course examines the history and future of urban ecology and the technology and politics that shape it. Alternative transportation, renewable energy, urban design, recycling and resource management, and sustainable economics are explored as means toward transforming cities to become the basis of a new, ecological society. Open to both graduate and undergraduate students. Graduate students have additional research requirements.