Survey of basic knowledge and technology of physical infrastructure systems: transportation, water supply, wastewater, storm water, solid waste management, community energy facilities, and urban public facilities. Environmental and energy impacts of infrastructure development; centralized vs. decentralized systems; case studies.

This course introduces students to city planning and climate change. It explores how cities are involved in reducing emissions and in adapting to the effects of global warming. Its primary focus is on urban systems that are affected by climate change and that define urban vulnerability or resiliency to climate change. For students interested in sustainable environmental design, the course situates design problems in a broader policy, regulatory, financial, and infrastructural context. We will cover topics such as green infrastructure, flood protection, networked infrastructure such as water and electricity, insurance, and post-disaster finance, as well as selected topics in land use and spatial planning. The course emphasizes political and normative issues that arise in the context of urban adaptation to climate change, including the distribution of risk, responsibility, and resources among people and groups that are situated differentially in space, and between the past, present, and future.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.