PLANNING WILLIAMS ENVIRONMENT PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY

Learning Outcomes:

To develop a knowledge, understanding and awareness of environmental issues.
To develop an awareness of environmental theory.
To be able to...

Learning Outcomes:
To develop a knowledge, understanding and awareness of environmental issues.
To develop an awareness of environmental theory.
To be able to identify both the environmental causes of concern and proactive methods and mechanisms to address them.
To understand methods for monitoring environmental impact
To demonstrate an ability to apply all of this knowledge to a practical application.

This module introduces students to the key issues facing city planners at a time of mass urbanisation, globalisation, technological and climate change. It does...

This module introduces students to the key issues facing city planners at a time of mass urbanisation, globalisation, technological and climate change. It does so in two ways: studying city planning’s theoretical discourse and its practice. It draws on UK and international experience. Topics include demographics, conservation, resilience (including to climate change), economic sustainability, planning and urban politics, Big Data, and key elements in plan content.

The core aims of the module are to develop student skills to building understanding of an unfamiliar urban context, through a critical engagement with...

The core aims of the module are to develop student skills to building understanding of an unfamiliar urban context, through a critical engagement with existing urban theory, and an openness to developing insights based on scholarship drawn from specific urban contexts and regions. Students will have the opportunity to acquire detailed knowledge of and insight into urbanisation and urban experiences of a selection of urban contexts in different regions and will explore the potential for the decolonisation of urban knowledge. The course will involve active engagement with the history and urban challenges of one or more partner cities (for example, Johannesburg), as well as selected other cases. Elements of the course will be delivered collaboratively with partner city staff and students. Themes will be drawn from dominant themes identified in the existing scholarship on the partner cities (such as exclusion, inequality, land, city-regions, extended urbanisation, migration, large-scale urban developments, policy learning, cultural politics and urban design and planning histories), as well as from contemporary policy challenges, urban political issues, artistic practice and design and planning innovations. A wide variety of sources will be assembled and interrogated to build insights on the selected cities through workshops and studio activities, including academic and policy sources, empirical studies, data analysis, maps, visual sources. The course will support and feed directly into the immersive experience or field-trip based module, “City Co-lab".