ARC 5935: Special Topics: Sustainable Urbanism. Wednesdays 11:00 12:45, PCA 340

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1 ARC 5935: Special Topics: Sustainable Urbanism Wednesdays 11:00 12:45, PCA 340 Gray Read Website: Blog: Syllabus and readings posted on website. Office: PCA 376A Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1012:30, Wednesdays, after class Creating vital, livable cities is one of our most effective responses to climate change. Urban life is inherently energy efficient and urban culture is rich and resilient. This course considers the role of architecture in inventing the new life of the city. We will develop ecological thinking in design and discuss strategies drawn from several fields: Urban Design, Landscape Urbanism, and Urban Ecology. Taking Miami as a case study, we will analyze urban structure and consider how to improve the quality of urban life. Class Structure: Seminar with readings, discussion, and presentations. Students will make two presentations and submit a final project based on material presented. Term Assignment: A proposal for making Miami more sustainable based on reading and research

2 Attendance: FIU requires attendance at all classes. Four unexcused absences will result in failure of this class. Religious Holidays: With prior notice to professor, any student may be excused to observe holidays of his or her faith. University Policy: Students must abide by all University rules and School of Architecture Policy. They must be courteous and respectful of others and take care not to damage property of the University or their colleagues. Grading Policy: Grades are awarded based on quality and timely completion of work. Grades reflect the quality of research, presentation, and quality of thought Class Participation: 20% Presentation of Research 30% Presentation of Proposal : 30% Final project : 20% STUDENT WORK: The School of Architecture reserves the right to retain any and all student work for the purpose of record, exhibition and instruction. All students are encouraged to photograph and/or copy all work for personal records prior to submittal of originals to the instructor. CIVILITY CLAUSE: "Florida International University is a community dedicated to generating and imparting knowledge through excellent teaching and research, the rigorous and respectful exchange of ideas, and community service. All students should respect the right of others to have an equitable opportunity to learn and honestly to demonstrate the quality of their learning. Therefore, all students are expected to adhere to a standard of academic conduct, which demonstrates respect for themselves, their fellow students, and the educational mission of the University. All students are deemed by the University to understand that if they are found responsible for academic misconduct, they will be subject to the Academic Misconduct procedures and sanctions, as outlined in the Student Handbook.

3 Sustainable Urbanism Schedule Gray Read Wednesdays, 11:00-12:45, PCA 340 Jan 10: Ecological Thinking: Thinking through the connections. Just how bad is the environmental crisis? What can we do about it? 7 Principles for building better cities: r_cities?utm_campaign=tedspread-- a&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare Jan 17: Why cities are better for environment Reading: Chapters 1 &2, in Vishaan Chakrabarti, A Country of Cities (Metropolis Books, 2013) p January 24: Building Great Cities Reading Chakrabarti, Chapter 3 January 31: Field Trip to Downtown Miami City as Landscape Reading: Excerpt from Jeff Speck, Walkable Cities (Northpoint Press, 2013) kable?utm_campaign=tedspread-- a&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare February 7: City as Landscape Reading; Konglian Yu, Big-Foot Revolution in Ecological Urbanism February 14: Urban Equity and Social Justice Reading: Richard Florida, The New Urban Crisis (Chapter 1) February 21: Reading the city: Urban Structure: Streets and public space, mix of uses, Interconnectedness Reading: Victor Dover, John Massengale, Street Design: the Secret to Great Cities and Towns, (Wiley, 2014) Introduction February 28: More on Streets Watch: Watch: Evelina Ozola on architects and streets and Marcos Zotes on interventions in public space

4 March 7: Ecological Urbanism Reading: Ecological Urbanism, intro by Mohsen Mostafavi in Ecological Urbanism Mohsen Mostafavi Ed. (Lars Muller, 2010) March 14: Spring Break March 21: Tactics and Networks Reading: excerpt from Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia, Tactical Urbanism (Island Press, 2015) March 28: Infrastructure and Design: Digital Interconnectivity vs. urbanism, and Presentations Reading: William Morrish and Catherine Brown Infrastructure for the New Social Compact in Writing Urbanism, Douglas Kelbaugh and Kit Krankel McCollough eds. (Routledge, 2008) pp Discuss: Cities and water April 4: Presentations April 11: Final Projects due April 18: Jury Week April 25: Presentations Sustainable Urbanism Term Assignment and Bibliography Part 1: Choose a research topic to pursue during the semester from those listed below. Focus on one of the books associated with the topic. Read the whole book cover to cover. Prepare a presentation on the ideas that you found interesting and useful in thinking about Miami. Present to the class on the day scheduled for discussion of your topic. Outline is due the week before presentation and I will meet with you to discuss. Part 2: Starting with the ideas that you learned from the book, make a specific proposal for making Miami a more sustainable city. The proposal might be something architectural such as street design, or it could be a policy idea or an event. Think expansively about the ideas and the possibilities for the city. Present this proposal to the class for discussion according to a schedule that we will develop. Final writeup of proposal is due at the end of the term Topics and Readings

5 Why Cities are more sustainable than suburbs or rural areas Chakrabarti, Vishaan. A Country of Cities. NY: Metropolis Books, Owen, David. Green Metropolis. NY: Penguin, Walkability Beatley, Timothy Green Cities of Europe. NY: Island Press, Calthorpe, Peter. Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change NY: Island Press, Gehl, Jan. Cities for People. Island Press, Jacobs, Allan. Great Streets. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, Speck, Jeff. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Ecological Urbanism and Landscape Urbanism Mostafavi, Mohsen, ed. Ecological Urbanism. Frankfort: Lars Müller Publishers, Waldheim, Charles, ed. The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Vol. Princeton Architectural Press: NY, Urban Equity and Social Justice Florida, Richard The New Urban Crisis: How are Cities are increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class And What We Can Do About It Basic Books, 2017 Streets and Urban Structure Dover, Victor, and John Massengale. Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns. NY: Wiley, Duany, Andres, and Jeff Spec. The Smart Growth Manual. NY: McGraw-Hill, Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Technology Press, Mikoleit, Anne, and Moritz Pürckhauer. Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Hall, Peter. Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism. Routledge, Tactics and Networks Lydon, Mike, and Anthony Garcia. Tactical Urbanism. Island Press, McLaren, Duncan Sharing Cities. Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 2015 Glaeser, Edward Triumph of the City. NY:Penguin, 2012 Oldenberg, Ray Celebrating the Third Place, NY:Da Capo Press, Biophilia Beatley, Timothy. Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning. Island Press, Wilson, E. O. Biophilia. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, Amin, Ash, and Nigel Thrift. Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Polity, 2002.

6 Bibliography Alder, Frederick, and Colby Tanner. Urban Ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Amin, Ash, and Nigel Thrift. Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Polity, Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Beatley, Timothy. Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning. Island Press, Green Cities of Europe. NY: Island Press, Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities NY: Island Press, Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Raleigh, NC: Duke University Press, Bogost, Ian. Alien Phenomenology: What It Feels Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Ian Bogost on Harmon s Quadruple object Calthorpe, Peter. Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change NY: Island Press, Chakrabarti, Vishaan. A Country of Cities. NY: Metropolis Books, Chase, John Leighton, Margaret Crawford, and John Kaliski, eds. Everyday Urbanism. NY: Monacelli Press, Corner, James. "The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention." In Mappings, edited by Dennis Cosgrove, London: Reaktion, Davis, Mike. Dead Cities and Other Tales. NY: The New Press, Douglas, Ian, and Philip James. Urban Ecology: An Introduction. Routledge, Dover, Victor, and John Massengale. Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns. NY: Wiley, Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Robert Alminana. New Civic Art. Ny: Rizzoli, Duany, Andres, and Jeff Spec. The Smart Growth Manual. NY: McGraw-Hill, Fox, Warwick, ed. Ethics and the Built Environment. London: Routledge Press, Gehl, Jan. Cities for People. Island Press, "Public Spaces for a Changing Public Life." In Open Space People Space, edited by Catharine Ward Thompson and Penny Travlou, London: Taylor & Francis, Glaeser, Edward. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier. Penguin Books, Goodell, Jeff. "Goodbye Miami." Rolling Stone, June Hall, Peter. Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism. Routledge, Halprin, Lawrence. Cities. NY: Reinhold, Hardin, Garrett. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science 162 (1968): Harvey, Fiona. "Cooling Pacific Has Dampened Global Warming, Research Shows." The Guardian, Hester, Randolph T. Design for Ecological Democracy. Cambridge, MA MIT Press, 2010.

7 Hough, Michael. Cities and Natural Process: A Basis for Sustainability. London: Routledge, IPCC. "Ipcc Fifth Assessment Report Synthesis Report." IPCC, Jacobs, Allan. Great Streets. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. NY: Modern Library, Kelbaugh, Douglas, and Kit Krankel McCullough, eds. Writing Urbanism. Edited by ACSA. NY: Routledge, Krieger, Alex. "The Virtues of Cities." In Writing Urbanism, edited by Douglas Kelbaugh and Kit McCullough, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Latour, Bruno. The Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Latour, Bruno, and Dennis Weibel, eds. Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, Leatherbarrow, David. Topographical Stories. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Leinberger, Christopher. The Option of Investing in a New America. Washington, DC: Island Press, Lerner, Jaime. Urban Acupuncture. Translated by Mac Margolis, Peter Muello and Ariadne Daher. Washington DC: Island Press, Lydon, Mike, and Anthony Garcia. Tactical Urbanism. Island Press, Lynch, Kevin. Good City Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, The Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Technology Press, McKibben, Bill. "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math." Rolling Stone, July, 22, McLaren, Duncan, and julian Agyeman. Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities. MIT Press, Mikoleit, Anne, and Moritz Pürckhauer. Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Morrish, William R., and Catherine R. Brown. "Infrastructure for the Social Compact." In Writing Urbanism, edited by Douglas Kelbaugh and Kit Krankel McCullough. London: Routledge, Mostafavi, Mohsen, ed. Ecological Urbanism. Frankfort: Lars Müller Publishers, Mumford, Louis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformation and Its Prospects. NY: Harvest Books, OECD. Cities and Climate Change. OCED, Oldenburg, Ray. The Great Good Place. NY: Da Capo, Orum, Anthony, and Zachery Neal. Common Ground?: Readings and Reflections on Public Space. Taylor & Francis, Owen, David. Green Metropolis. NY: Penguin, Read, Gray. "The Theatre of Public Space." Journal of Architectural Education 58, no. 3 (May 2005): Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. Translated by Diane Ghirardo and Joan Ockman. Oppositions Books. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Rowe, Colin, and Fred Koetter. Collage City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Saunders, William, ed. Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

8 Schneider, Daniel. Hybrid Nature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Sennett, Richard. The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities. NY: Knopf, Speck, Jeff. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Stefanovic, Ingrid, and Steven Scharper, eds. The Natural City: Re-Envisioning the Built Environment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, The_Why_Factory. Green Dream. Amsterdam: NAI and The Why Factory, Thompson, Catharine Ward, and Penny Travlou, eds. Open Space People Space. London: Taylor & Francis, Topos. Urban Squares: Recent European Promenades, Squares, and City Centres. Waldheim, Charles, ed. The Landscape Urbanism Reader Vol. Princeton Architectural Press: NY, Whyte, William Hollingsworth. City: Rediscovering the Center. NY: Doubleday, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. L.A.: Direct Cinema Ltd., Wilson, E. O. Biophilia. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, Useful Websites: Urban Land Institute: uli.org. Look under Publications to find their magazine, bookstore and library Institute for Transportation and Development Policy: Itdp.org Look up TOD Standard 2.0 (transportation oriented development). Tide Rising in Key Biscayne