Sustainable Cities

• Topics

  • 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

• Study resources

  • Instructional Methods

    • Blog
    • Disscusion forum/Discussion Board
    • Embedded Multimedia
    • Glossary
    • Online assignment submission
    • Podcasting/Leacture capture
    • Standard Media
    • Web links

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Elective

• OUA-PSU-GCE-2018
• CUR-SCP-MAS-2018
• CUR-SCP-GCE-2018
• CUR-SCP-GDI-2018

Special requirements

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  Additional materials

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%)

Textbooks are subject to change within the academic year. Students are advised to purchase their books no earlier than one to two months before the start of a subject.

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