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1 SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS Fall 2012 Discipline: Urban Planning PLAN 4500: Coastal Cities and Climate Change Upper Division Faculty Name: Katherine Slaughter Pre-requisites: None COURSE DESCRIPTION: Coastal Cities and Climate Change. How will climate change impact coastal cities and what measures are cities taking to address this and combat climate change? After learning principles of U.S. land use law, the class will look at coastal cities on the other three continents from to understand how they might adapt to climate change. We will try to understand the land use decision making at the various governmental levels and strategies to mitigate effects of climate change. Students will work in teams assigned to each continent. The course will give students an opportunity to learn about local land use planning as practiced in the U.S. and make comparisons with land use practices and laws in other countries. COURSE OBJECTIVES Enable students to learn about U.S. land use law while studying firsthand cities on the other continents and comparing how coastal cities are planning for climate change and adaptation to rising sea levels. Increase knowledge about the diversity of governance systems and levels of planning for green urbanism and climate change. Integrate personal observation and learning experiences through journal entries and group research. REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS AUTHOR: Timothy Beatley TITLE: Coastal Resilience: Best Practices for Calamitous Times PUBLISHER Island Press ISBN #: DATE/EDITION: 2009 COST: AUTHOR: Cynthia Rosenzweig, William D. Solecki, Stephen Hammer & Shagun Mehrotra, eds. TITLE: : First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network PUBLISHER: Cambridge ISBN #: DATE/EDITION: 2011 COST: $50 AUTHOR: U.S. Constitutional Convention TITLE: U.S. Constitution # Publisher: The U.S. Capitol Historical Society COST: $1.00 1

2 A Day 1:05 2:20 pm If not in textbook, materials will be in electronic folder (EF). 1. 8/25 Introductions, Syllabus, Presentation Team, Journaling. Introducing U.S. land use practices, the challenges of climate change and coastal impacts: IPCC Report on Climate Synthesis Report 2007 (EF) (Review for scientific background) Coastal Resilience, Introduction and Chapter 1-2 (Since the last section of Coastal Resilience relates case studies, you may want to review these earlier than assigned to provide framework) (hereafter CCC ), Executive Summary and Chapter I,2 and 3 (especially pp ). (ditto above re case studies Appendix A) 2. 8/27 Past and Present: Historical Context of Private Property, Nuisance and Zoning in England and US and Defining Risks of Climate Change in US and World. Hurlburt v. Calif. Portland Cement Co, 161 Cal 239 (1911); Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty (1926); : A Citizens Guide to Planning and Zoning in Virginia, (EF) Assignment: make a chart showing the process of zoning requests in US. 3. 8/29 QUIZ 1: Nuisance and Zoning in USA W&B, Firsthand Analysis of Urban Environments, (EF) Draft Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for London Assignment Develop Checklist for Coastal Cities and Climate Change (using readings to date) GALWAY, DUBLIN 4. 9/4 student discussion of visits to Galway, Dublin CCC: Chapter 5 SOUTHAMPTON ANTWERP 5. 9/16 Discuss Trip. Massachusetts et al v. EPA (2006) Opinion re to impacts of Climate Change on American Cities Coastal Resilience: Chapter 3-4 Key Planning Dimensions, Barriers to Coastal Resilience CCC Chapter 4, 6, /18 QUIZ 2: Coastal Planning Urban Agriculture (electronic file) Preparation for Field Lab in Casablanca: North African Coastal Cities address Natural Disasters and Climate Change World Bank, June 2011 (EF) Phase 2 Casablanca Report: Executive Summary (EF) LISBON, CADIZ 7. 9/27 Student discussion of observations in visited cities. How do southern European cities differ from northern ones? What similarities or differences with Casablanca? Climate Change/Energy Game. CASABLANCA 10/1 (Field Lab in Casablanca on MONDAY 10/1) 8. 10/3 Review Trip STUDY DAY 9. 10/6 Student Presentation on Europe Coastal Resilience, Chapters 5-7. How might climate change impact coastal cities or countries we re visiting? 2

3 GHANA, STUDY DAY /13 Student observations on Accra visit. What were differences observed between Casablanca and Accra? How is the African Continent different from the European in terms of the coastal cities you have observed? What are the challenges for newer nations like Ghana and South Africa? U.S. Constitutional issues: 5 th and 14 th Amendments and Planning in U.S. Penn Central Transportation v. New York City (1978); Lucas v. South Carollina Coastal Council, 505 U.S (1992) CCC Chapters /15 Case Study of American cities dealing with climate change: Norfolk, New York City. New York City Adaptation to Climate Change (EF) /17 Preparing for Cape Town: Developing a Municipal Adaption Plan (MAP) for Climate Change in the City of Cape Town (EF) CAPE TOWN /24 Discussion of Cape Town from journal entries: How did it compare with Accra and Casablanca and with European Cities that were visited. Climate Change game in Africa: How does it differ from Europe or U.S.? /26 Student Presentation on African Cities. Summary of Learning: What are the major environmental or land use issues that we have identified so far in Europe and Africa and what are the constraints in governance or other mechanisms to address these issues? How are cities addressing climate change? /29 Quiz 3: Coastal Planning Low Carbon High Growth: Latin American Responses to Climate Change World Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies. (EF) Coastal Resilience, Chapters 8-13 (Best Practices) /31 Background Briefing on Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Manaus Review 10/29 readings and CCC, pp , BUENOS AIRES, MONTEVIDEO /9 Discussion of trip to Buenos Aires and Montevideo? What did we observe, how do these cities compare with European and African cities we ve visited. What are common themes? Review CCC, pp on Rio. Facing the Challenges of Informal Settlements in Urban Centers: The Re-urbanization of Manaus, Brazil by Fernanda Magalhaes and Eduardo Rojas, Inter-American Development Bank (EF) RIO DE JANEIRO /14 Discussion of trip to Rio: How did it compare with Buenos Aires, Montevideo, African and European Cities? What was similar, dissimilar, or new? /16 Climate Change game related to South America /19 Student Presentation on South America. Facing the Challenges of Informal Settlements in Urban Centers: The Re-urbanization of Manaus, Brazil by Fernanda Magalhaes and Eduardo Rojas, Inter-American Development Bank /21 Student Journal Summaries due. Reading from Journals in class. Intersection of International Human Rights and Domestic Environmental Regulation (EF) MANAUS /26 Exit Amazon. Film: An Inconvenient Truth 3

4 23. 11/28 Review for Exam EXAM ON 12/3 FIELD LABORATORY (At least 20 percent of the contact hours for each course.) 1) The field lab will occur on the LAST DAY we are in Casablanca and will include meeting with governmental officials and visit NGO project of urban farming. 2) The core of student work will be an ongoing class journal that integrates thoughts on the class readings and discussions and observations from visits to the three continents and the field lab. Students may also have an additional assignment for field lab. In addition to field lab, Students will be asked to make group presentation on one continent. METHODS OF EVALUATION Participation (attend, actively participate in discussion, share journal entries) 20% Field Lab 20% Tests 20% Oral Presentation 20% Exam 20% Grades will be assigned A; 80-89, B; 70-79, C; 60-69, D; below 60 F No Pluses or Minuses will be assigned. RESERVE LIBRARY LIST BY (CAVENDISH Publishing limited 1998 a British publishing house) It s RELEVANT TO EU COUNTRIES WHICH WOULD BE 5 OF THE 12 COUNTRIES WE VISIT. AUTHOR: MAURICE SUNKIN, DAVID M. ONG & ROBERT WIGHT TITLE: SOURCEBOOK ON ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PUBLISHER: Cavendish Publishing LTD. ISBN #: DATE/EDITION: 1998 COST: AUTHOR: Stephen Wheeler and Timothy Beatley, eds. TITLE: The Sustainable Urban Development Reader 2d Ed. (hereafter W&B ) PUBLISHER: Routledge ISBN #: pbk ebk 2 sets of ISBNs are in book; I want 2d edition DATE/EDITION: Second Edition AUTHOR: M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson (Eds.) TITLE: Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007 PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press ISBN: DATE/EDITION 2007 COST: 4

5 ELECTRONIC COURSE MATERIALS NEEDING DOWNLOADS Stephen Wheeler & Timothy Beatley, Sustainable Urban Development Reader, Firsthand Analysis of Urban Environments, (SEE RESERVE) These can be downloaded from Findlaw.com: Hurlburt v. Calif. Portland Cement Co, 161 Cal 239 (1911) Penn Central Transportation v. New York City, 438 U.S. 104 (1978) Lucas v. South Carollina Coastal Council, 505 U.S (1992) ADDITIONAL RESOURCES We need maps of each of the coastal cities we will visit (preferably 30 copies of each). We also need a large wall map that shows the North and South America, the Atlantic and Europe and Africa with delineation of the countries in Europe, Africa, North and South America and hopefully the major cities and ports. 5

UEP Green Urban Design and Placemaking Spring 2013 Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

UEP Green Urban Design and Placemaking Spring 2013 Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning UEP 294-04 Green Urban Design and Placemaking Spring 2013 Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Christine Cousineau Wednesdays, 6:30 PM 9:00 PM Brown House, 97 Talbot Avenue COURSE