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Ecological Cities

X400.7 (1 semester unit in Architecture)

This course familiarizes students with strategies to create a sustainable built environment for people and nature by reshaping the built human infrastructure using principles and methods grounded in ecology and whole-systems thinking. Basic ecocity theory is presented, as are an overview of the city in evolution, the city today, and a step-by-step method for building the low-energy, sustainable city of tomorrow. Slide lectures, selected readings, in-depth discussions, a field trip, mapping projects, and collaborative working groups allow students to acquire useful knowledge of key issues and concepts.

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Thurs. Sept. 10, San Francisco

KIRSTIN MILLER, B.S., is the executive director of Ecocity Builders, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reshaping cities, towns, and villages for long term health of human and natural systems. A classical musician by training, she has been instrumental in such events as the Green City Visions for World Environment Day in 2005. She has been published widely and was a plenary speaker at the Sixth International Ecocity Conference in Bangalore, India, in 2006; the Towards CarFree Cities III conference in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2003; and the Seventh World Wilderness Congress in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 2001.

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• $425 (EDP 011916)

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