Sustainable Cities
PostgraduateCUR-SCP5432019
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Define what it is that makes a city sustainable or unsustainable.Look into transport, environmental, urban design and economic concerns. Address cities’ dependence on cars, trucks and motorcycles. Discuss the cities that are making an effort go green.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Sustainable Cities
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- explain how specific urban and transport planning policies and strategies can help to resolve many of the problems confronting cities
- evaluate and integrate knowledge of global urban planning and transport policies and achievements to justify a sustainable city vision
- apply sustainability concepts to real situations in any city
- assess the effectiveness and importance of public planning for the 'common good' and the role of developing positive visions for cities
- communicate a positive, solutions-oriented approach to cities and their problems and potentials.
- The concept of sustainability, its history and its relationship to cities
- The concept of sustainability, its history and its relationship to cities
- A transport and urban form history of cities
- Understanding automobile dependence: an international comparison of transport and land use in cities
- Energy use, energy conservation and the 'peak oil' phenomenon
- A history and critique of traditional transport planning: trip generation versus trip reduction
- Best practice in urban public transport systems
- Planning for pedestrians and cyclists and the role of traffic calming
- The central city: planning for people not cars
- The new suburbia: revisioning suburban sprawl
- Urban villages and transit-oriented development as antidotes to urban sprawl
- Making cities 'green' cities and case studies in more sustainable city development: a global overview highlighting Portland, Freiburg and Curitiba
This subject examines cities around the world from within a sustainability framework. Its core focus is the issue of automobile dependence in cities and the associated land use, environmental, social, economic and urban design issues surrounding it.
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- Essay (30%)
- Sustainable city vision (40%)
- Critical analysis (30%)
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Entry requirements
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Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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