Autumn ¡¯02 City & Regional Planning Course
Offering
C&RP
724: Planning for Sustainable
Development
(Course call #04376; 4 credits)
Maria Manta
Conroy, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning
These are
exciting times for American cities. As
many Americans rediscover the benefits of urban life, there is growing
recognition that cities play a pivotal role in addressing a wide range of global
and local environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity
conservation. Tremendous
opportunities exist in cities like Columbus to create vibrant livable places,
while at the same time fundamentally reducing our collective ecological
footprint.
Exploring
these opportunities will be the focus of a quarter-long planning course at OSU,
where students will be given the charge of developing a strategic plan for
creating a sustainable Columbus, and imagining what it might mean to begin to
see Columbus as an ecological city.
Students will be organized into teams to develop specific reports about
particular eco-city dimensions. Teams
will, with close faculty guidance and assistance from local experts and agency
personnel, examine the status of Columbus, identify opportunities for moving
Columbus in the direction of becoming a more ecological city, and propose
recommendations about programs, policies, or initiatives in the future to begin
this larger transformation process.
This class
will build upon the investigative foundation provided by the 2001 offering of
this class (see website below). While
the class will consider and discuss the full range of dimensions on which
Columbus is or could be an ecological or sustainable city, teams will focus
their analysis and work in four key areas:
1. Land use and Urban Form;
2. Transportation and Mobility; 3.
Urban Ecology; and 4. Energy (and
CO2 reduction). Students will work
with and present their work to a public steering committee as part of a day-long
EcoCity Columbus Charrette at the end of the term.
For
More information contact Maria Manta Conroy:
conroy.36@osu.edu