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POLETTINI ALESSANDRA
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The course is structured thematically in three phases.
The first phase will consist of weekly slide lectures followed by occasional seminar discussions based on readings and viewings of related video presentations. Students will begin to research and prepare material for thematic presentations introduced below.
Thematic presentations will be presented orally with slides during the second phase, with the results also being compiled into a written report.
During the final phase there will be a short oral exam to evaluate students’ comprehension of the lectures and readings.
THEMES
Water. Where does it come from, where does it go, how is it managed? What effect does the recognition of the limits of clean water have on urban development?
Green Space. What is the role of green space in the city? How can it be defended and improved?
Urban Fabric. How does the choice of where to site buildings, how to plan and regulate development, impact the city’s performance?
Energy. Where does it come from and how is it managed? What are the true costs vs. the economic costs? What strategies exist to reduce the energy consumption (and subsequent emissions) related to urban development?
Waste. What happens to the solid and liquid waste produced by human inhabitation? Where does it go, how is it managed, and how can it be reduced or eliminated, or at least turned into a resource?
Transportation. How do people move around the city and between cities and what are the environmental and personal costs?
Community. What role do stakeholders play in the development of more environmentally sustainable cities? How is participation essential to ecological urbanism?
Rankin, Tom. Rome Works: An Architect Explores the World’s Most Resilient City. Peruzzi Press, 2015. romeworks.info
Rifkin, Jeremy. The Third Industrial Revolution. 2010. *Available on-line
Brown, Lester. Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. W.W. Norton & Co. 2008.
Mitchell, William J. Me++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. MIT Press, 2004.
Ecological Urbanism, Mohsen Mostafavi, (Editor), Lars Müller Publishers; 1 edition (May 1, 2010)
Sassen, Saskia. “Seeing Like a City” in Burdett, Ricky, ed. The Endless City. Phaidon. 2007
William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle. New York, NY: Northpoint Press, 2002.
Lynch, Kevin. “The Waste of Place” in Places: Vol. 6: No. 2. 1990.
Berger, Alan. “Urban Land is a Natural Thing to Waste” in Harvard Design Magazine Fall 2005/Winter 2006.
Stuart, Tristram, Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal. London: Penguin, 2009. p. 220-231.
Timothy Beatley. Planning for Sustainability in European Cities. The Sustainable Urban Development Reader. London and New York: Routledge. 2004.
Sennet, Richard. “The Open City” in Burdett, Ricky, ed. The Endless City. Phaidon. 2007.
Cervero, Robert. “Transit and the Metropolis: Finding Harmony” in Wheeler, Stephen M. and Timothy Beatley. The Sustainable Urban Development Reader. London and New York: Routledge. 2004.
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