Assign1: Wk2-4 Reading Reflection

Date Course Contents Reading Assignments Material Due Today Wk 1 Introduction Aug 20

UN SDG11 Sustainable Cities and Communities https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/cities/

Course Survey

H.Res.109 The Green New Dear https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house- resolution/109/text The Green New Deal Superstudio https://www.lafoundation.org/take-action/green-new- deal/superstudio How to read an academic journal article How to write a critical reflection

Wk 2 Climate Change and Justice Framework 25 What is climate change mitigation? What is adapation? How to integrate climate change into

design process and products? 1. EPA Smart Growth and Climate Change. https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/smart-growth-and- climate-change

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2. Ch14, Bulkeley, H., Broto, V.C., & Edwards, G. “Towards Low Carbon Urbanism" in Wheeler, S. M., & Beatley, T. (Eds.). (2014). Sustainable Urban Development Reader

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27 Just environments What is the role of environmental design play for creating just environments in both design process and products? 3. Ch30, Bullard, B.“People-of-Color Environmentalism.” in Wheeler, S. M., & Beatley, T. (Eds.). (2014). Sustainable Urban Development Reader

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4. Ch32, Perlman, J.E. & O’Meara Sheehan, M. “Fighting Poverty and Environmental Injustice in Cities” in Wheeler, S. M., & Beatley, T. (Eds.). (2014). Sustainable Urban Development Reader

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Equity Design case studies https://www.buildinggreen.com/feature/equity-design-and-construction- seven-case-studies

Wk 3 Land Sep 1

formal settlement 5. York, A., Tuccilo, J., Boone, C., Bolin, B., Gentile, L., Schoon, B., & Kane, K. (2016). Zoning and Land Use: A Tale of Incompatibility and Environmental Injustice in Early Phoenix. Journal of Urban Affairs, 36(5), 833–853. https://doi.org/10.1111/juaf.12076

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3 Informal settlement 6. Vertigans, S., & Gibson, N. (2019). Resilience and social cohesion through the lens of residents in a Kenyan informal settlement. Community Development Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsz012

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Wk 4 Transportation and Energy

FALL 2020 EDS 301 - Sustainable Community Design + Practice Instructor: Dr. Chingwen Cheng, PLA, LEED AP

Course Schedule (9/7/20 updated) TA: Atziry Madera Sabido, MArch Candidate

Smart Growth and Climate Change

Date Course Contents Reading Assignments Material Due Today

FALL 2020 EDS 301 - Sustainable Community Design + Practice Instructor: Dr. Chingwen Cheng, PLA, LEED AP

Course Schedule (9/7/20 updated) TA: Atziry Madera Sabido, MArch Candidate

8 Accessibility, mobility, complete street

7. Dowling, R. (2016). Applying performance-based practical design methods to complete streets : a primer on employing performance-based practical design and transportation systems management and operations to enhance the design of complete streets . U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.

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10 8. Austin, S. (2017). Can we get to zero? LA Magazine reading notes 9. Ch27, Brown, L. “Harnessing Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy” in Wheeler, S. M., & Beatley, T. (Eds.). (2014). Sustainable Urban Development Reader

Assign1: Wk2-4 #1-9 Reading Reflection

Wk 5 Food and Waste 15 Food systems, Urban Ag 10. Apparicio, P., Cloutier, M., & Shearmur, R. (2007). The case of Montréal’s missing food

deserts: evaluation of accessibility to food supermarkets. International Journal of Health Geographics, 6(1), 4–4. https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-6-4

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17 Wastewater, waste management

11. Ch26, Girardet, H. “The Metabolism of Cities” in Wheeler, S. M., & Beatley, T. (Eds.). (2014). Sustainable Urban Development Reader

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Wk 6 Water 22 One Water 12. p97-112. Novotny, V., Ahern, J., & Brown, P. (2010). Water centric sustainable communities

planning, retrofitting, and building the next urban environment. Wiley. reading notes

24 Flooding and stormwater management

13. Favaro, A. & Chelleri, L. (2018). Ch15-The Evolution of Flooding Resilience: The Case of Barcelona. In Smart, resilient and transition cities: Emerging approaches and tools for a climate- sensitive urban development. Elsevier.

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Wk 7 Planned Community Design integrating Green Infrastructure 29 design steps 14. p27-47, Ch5. Arendt, R., & Harper, H. (1996). Conservation design for subdivisions : a practical

guide to creating open space networks . Island Press. reading notes

Oct 1

design examples 15. p57-111 Ch7. Arendt, R., & Harper, H. (1996). Conservation design for subdivisions : a practical guide to creating open space networks . Island Press.

Assign2: Wk5-7 #10-15 Reading Reflection

Wk 8 Mid-Term Presentation 6 10 mins each, 7 groups 8 10 mins each, 7 groups Wk 9 Place-Making & Place-Keeping 13 Place-Keeping: Prof.

Dalla Costa, ASU 16. Dalla Costa, W. (2018). Indigenous placekeeping: campus design + planning. Arizona State University.

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15 17. Gentrification and Neighborhood Revitalization: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? https://nlihc.org/resource/gentrification-and-neighborhood-revitalization-whats-difference

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Wk 10 Environmental and Climate Justice

Place-Making, Housing: Prof. Meagan Ehlenz, ASU

Energy: Prof. Yekang Ko, University of Oregon

Date Course Contents Reading Assignments Material Due Today

FALL 2020 EDS 301 - Sustainable Community Design + Practice Instructor: Dr. Chingwen Cheng, PLA, LEED AP

Course Schedule (9/7/20 updated) TA: Atziry Madera Sabido, MArch Candidate

20 Environmental justice: Prof. Anne Taufen, Uni. of Washington, Tacoma

18. Mohai, P., Pellow, D., & Roberts, J. (2009). Environmental Justice. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 34(1), 405–430. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-082508- 094348

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22 Climate justicescape and Planning

19. Cheng, C. (2019). Climate justicescape and implications for urban resilience in American cities. In: Burayidi, M., Twigg, J., Allen, A., & Wamlester, C. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience (pp. 83-96). New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Books.

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Wk 11 Climate, Health, and Urban Morphology

27 Healthy community design

20. Ch46, Frumkin, H., Frank, L, & Jackson, R. “Physical Activity, Sprawl, and Health” in Wheeler, S. M., & Beatley, T. (Eds.). (2014). Sustainable Urban Development Reader

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29 Urban climate design 21. Kleerekoper, L. (2016). Urban Climate Design: Improving thermal comfort in Dutch neighbourhoods. A+BE: Architecture and the Built Environment. 6. 10.7480/abe.2016.11.

Assign3: Wk9-11 #16-21 Reading Reflection

Wk 12 Vulnerable and Resilient Communities

Nov 3

Design for vulnerability 22. Cipolla, C. (2018). Design for Vulnerability: Interpersonal Relations and Design. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. (4)1, 111-122

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5 Local economy resilience

23. Climate resilient economy https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016- 05/documents/planning-framework-climate-resilient-economy-508.pdf

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Wk 13 Design with Communities

10 Connect before collaborat24. p73-100. Ch3. in Jones Allen, D., Hester, R., Hou, J., Lawson, L., McNally, M., & de la Pena, D. (2017). Design As Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity. Island Press. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-848-0

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12 Leverage power 25. p261-285. Ch9 in Jones Allen, D., Hester, R., Hou, J., Lawson, L., McNally, M., & de la Pena, D. (2017). Design As Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity. Island Press. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-848-0

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Wk 14 Making Design Accountable for Sustainability, Equity, Resilience

17 Ecocity 26. p539-593. Ch XI. Ecocity Case Studies and Evaluations. In Novotny, V., Ahern, J., & Brown, P. (2010). Water centric sustainable communities planning, retrofitting, and building the next urban environment. Wiley.

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19 Measuring Social Impacts

27. Measuring the Civic Commons https://civiccommons.us/app/uploads/2018/01/Measuring-the- Civic-Commons.pdf

Assign4: Wk12-14 #22-27 Reading Reflection

Wk 15 Pandemic Urbanism

Date Course Contents Reading Assignments Material Due Today

FALL 2020 EDS 301 - Sustainable Community Design + Practice Instructor: Dr. Chingwen Cheng, PLA, LEED AP

Course Schedule (9/7/20 updated) TA: Atziry Madera Sabido, MArch Candidate

24 How COVID-19 influence the social + ecological community? (bring reading notes to class, no need for submission)

28. Zellmer, A. J., E. M. Wood, T. Surasinghe, B. J. Putman, G. B. Pauly, S. B. Magle, J. S. Lewis, C. A. M. Kay, and M. Fidino. 2020. What can we learn from wildlife sightings during the COVID-19 global shutdown? Ecosphere 11(8): e03215. 10.1002/ecs2.3215

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29. The Dirt: https://dirt.asla.org/2020/06/30/how-will-the-pandemic-impact-the-built-environment/ reading notes

26 No class Thanksgiving Holidays Enjoy! Wk 16 Final Presentation

Dec 1

10 mins each, 7 groups

3 10 mins each, 7 groups Course evaluation Week Finals 8 Submission Assign 5: Group Project

10 Exhibition