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LOW-CARBON URBANIZATION, CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND THE CITY PLAN


Week 10, Thursday November 02






Asynchronous material to watch/listen to prior to class (on website):

        - An introduction to low carbon urbanization (16 min)
    








Alan Berger (MIT)*
On the Suburbs


Felipe Correa(University of Virginia)
On Hyper Engineering



Ed Glaeser(FAS)*
On Economics



Diane Jones Allen(University of Texas Arlington)
On Transit Equity



Fadi Masoud (University of Toronto Daniels)*
On Zoning and Codes




Alex Wall (GSD)
On Commons







Readings & Media



Griffiths, Steven, and Benjamin K. Sovacool. “Rethinking the Future Low-Carbon City: Carbon Neutrality, Green Design, and Sustainability Tensions in the Making of Masdar City.” Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 62, Elsevier Ltd, 2020, p. 1-9.[Teams] Milkoreit, Manjana. "Imaginary Politics: Climate Change and Making the Future." Elementa (Washington, D.C.) 5 (2017): 1-18. [Teams] Vale, Lawrence J. "The Politics of Resilient Cities: Whose Resilience and Whose City?" Building Research & Information: Resilience in the Built Environment 42, no. 2 (2014): 191–201. [Teams]

Additional References



Project Drawdown. Especially the transportation sectors. Anguelovski, I, Shi, L, Chu, E, Gallagher, D, Goh, K, Lamb, Z, Reeve, K, and Teicher, H. "Equity Impacts of Urban Land Use Planning for Climate Adaptation: Critical Perspectives from the Global North and South." Journal of Planning Education and Research 36, no. 3 (2016): 333-48. [Teams]



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