Cities around the world aspire to become ‘sustainable' by developing a set of wide-ranging policies, plans, and projects in diverse domains (e.g. energy, food, housing, mobility, waste, water) and multiple scales (e.g., neighborhoods, city, region). Yet putting a large metropolis on the path to sustainability entails a hugely complex process of transformation with profound challenges of governance, planning, and design. In this course, we will develop a comprehensive overview of urban sustainability and discuss specific challenges and solutions, including policy frameworks, strategies, and tools. We will also connect urban sustainability to other key domains such as resilience, smartness, and justice. Studying case studies from around the world, we will employ a global urbanism perspective to comparatively and critically address sustainability transitions of large metropolises in both the Global South and North.
Nathan MAROM
Séminaire
English
Autumn 2024-2025
- Group project – sustainability strategy for a selected city: 50% (group grade)
- Individual contribution to group project – analysis of a specific strategy domain: 30% (individual grade)
- Presentation of readings in class and active participation in discussions: 20% (individual grade)
12 two-hour sessions, consisting of a formal lecture, class discussion of readings, and group presentations (mid-term and final)
Wheeler, S. M., & Rosan, C. D. (2021). Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities. University of California Press.
Hirt, S. A., & Campbell, S. D. (2023). The planner's pentangle: A proposal for a Twenty-First-Century model of planning. Journal of Planning Education and Research.
Bar-ner, H., & Marom, N. (2024). Performing, co-producing and strategizing for a sustainable city: Urban sustainability policy in Tel Aviv, 2000–2020. Cities, 147, 104782.