Coastal cities are undergoing environmental changes at a scale and pace that challenges traditional cultures, disciplinary methods, experience, histories and techniques. The same could be said about social change and economic transformation in many of these cities, and their interactions exacerbate the challenges of governance and response in planning and design.
Cities have responded by developing new institutions, planning processes and design approaches aimed at promoting resilience to the impacts of climate change and variability. This course will examine the impacts of environmental change on cities, and explore planning and design approaches that emerged to foster development under these conditions. We will examine the urban risk and resilience paradigm and the integration of hazard risk reduction and climate action planning. We will focus on social equity and vulnerability, the merger of chronic and episodic shocks at the urban scale, the analysis of resilience as a paradigm in planning and the development of professional responses in these areas.
Lectures, class discussion and assignments will focus in three areas:
· The methods and process of contemporary city planning and designs for adapting to environmental change and weather extremes.
· The changing landscape of policies and design for coastal resilience; strategies for conservation of damaged coastal areas and adaptive approaches for coping with increased tidal and storm surge risks concurrent with sea-level rise.
· The use of mapping and spatial analysis in adaptive planning and urban climate research; the use of spatial data and the development of spatial narratives to describe and explain urban vulnerabilities and resilience.
1. Attendance: Students are expected to attend classes and be on time.
2. Readings and participation: There will be assigned readings for each class, and students will take turns discussing selected readings.
3. Assignments: Each student will develop an individual research or design project based in one or more of these areas; make presentations to the class on their research; discuss readings and other students’ research, and prepare a final paper/design project based on their research. Short assignments will lead up to the final project.
Student work will be evaluated based on the final project (which may be planning and/or design), class presentations, discussion of the literature and other student’s research, and the quality of overall participation.
GSD 5342 is a planning and design lecture/workshop that challenges its participants to develop her or his individual course of action. Proposals should lie in the general professional capacity of the participant, and can also venture into new areas of thought by combining unusual themes of investigation that are typically underrepresented in urban development and design. GSD 5342 seeks to challenge its participants to venture onto a path of creative collaborative while still addressing dominant urban issues such as population vulnerability and coastal land use while fostering the long-term build-up of resilience against future disasters. Researchers with expertise in coastal hazard mitigation and land use will provide guest lectures. We are currently investigating appropriate local sites for a site visit and a place-based focus on coastal resilience in the Northeast, as it recovers from the impacts of Sandy.
Miji ya pwani inapitia mabadiliko ya mazingira kwa kiwango na kasi ambayo inatoa changamoto kwa tamaduni za jadi, mbinu za nidhamu, uzoefu, historia na mbinu. "Hiyo inaweza kusemwa kuhusu mabadiliko ya kijamii na mabadiliko ya kiuchumi katika miji mingi, na mwingiliano wao huongeza changamoto za utawala na majibu katika mipango na kubuni. """ Miji imeitikia kwa kuendeleza taasisi mpya, mchakato wa mipango na mbinu za kubuni zinazolenga kukuza upinzani kwa athari za mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa na kutofautiana. Kozi hii itachunguza athari za mabadiliko ya mazingira kwenye miji, na kuchunguza mipango na mbinu za kubuni ambazo zilitokea kukuza maendeleo chini ya hali hizi. "Tutachunguza ""Uhatari wa Miji na Uwezo wa Kuhifadhi"" na ""Uunganisho wa Kupunguza Hatari za Hatari na Mpango wa Hatua za Hali ya Hewa.""" "Tutazingatia usawa wa kijamii na udhaifu, kuunganisha mshtuko wa muda mrefu na wa vipindi katika kiwango cha mijini, uchambuzi wa ""upinzani"" kama mfano katika mipango na maendeleo ya majibu ya kitaaluma katika maeneo haya." Mikutano, majadiliano ya darasa na kazi zitazingatia maeneo matatu: Mbinu na mchakato wa mipango ya jiji la kisasa na miundo ya kukabiliana na mabadiliko ya mazingira na hali ya hewa kali. Mabadiliko ya mazingira ya sera na muundo wa upinzani wa pwani; mikakati ya kuhifadhi maeneo ya pwani yaliyoharibiwa na mbinu za kukabiliana na kuongezeka kwa hatari za mawimbi na dhoruba zinazohusiana na kuongezeka kwa kiwango cha bahari. • Matumizi ya ramani na uchambuzi wa kijiografia katika mipango ya kubadilika na utafiti wa hali ya hewa ya mijini; matumizi ya data ya kijiografia na maendeleo ya hadithi za kijiografia kuelezea na kuelezea udhaifu wa mijini na upinzani. 1. Uwe na mtazamo wa kweli Kuhudhuria: Wanafunzi wanatarajiwa kuhudhuria madarasa na kufika kwa wakati. 2. Uwezekano wa kupata Kusoma na kushiriki: Kutakuwa na usomaji uliopewa kwa kila darasa, na wanafunzi watabadilika kujadili usomaji uliochaguliwa. 3. Uwe na mtazamo wa kweli Kila mwanafunzi ataendeleza utafiti binafsi au mradi wa kubuni kulingana na moja au zaidi ya maeneo haya; kufanya maonyesho kwa darasa juu ya utafiti wao; kujadili masomo na utafiti wa wanafunzi wengine, na kuandaa mradi wa mwisho wa karatasi au kubuni kulingana na utafiti wao. Kazi fupi zitaongoza kwenye mradi wa mwisho. Kazi ya mwanafunzi itathminiwa kulingana na mradi wa mwisho (ambayo inaweza kuwa mipango na au kubuni), maonyesho ya darasa, majadiliano ya fasihi na utafiti mwingine wa mwanafunzi, na ubora wa ushiriki wa jumla. GISD5342 ni hotuba ya mipango na kubuni ambayo inawashauri washiriki wake kuendeleza mwelekeo wake wa kibinafsi wa hatua. Mapendekezo yanapaswa kuwa katika uwezo wa jumla wa kitaaluma wa mshiriki, na pia inaweza kujihusisha na maeneo mapya ya mawazo kwa kuchanganya mandhari ya kawaida ya uchunguzi ambayo kwa kawaida ni underrepresented katika maendeleo ya mijini na kubuni. GSD-5342 inatafuta kuwapigia changamoto washiriki wake kuingia kwenye njia ya ushirikiano wa ubunifu wakati bado unashughulikia masuala ya mijini kama vile udhaifu wa idadi ya watu na matumizi ya ardhi ya pwani wakati wa kukuza ujenzi wa muda mrefu wa upinzani dhidi ya majanga ya baadaye. Watafiti wenye utaalam katika kupunguza hatari za pwani na matumizi ya ardhi watatoa mihadhara ya wageni. """Kwa sasa tunachunguza maeneo sahihi ya eneo hilo kwa ziara ya eneo hilo na kuzingatia eneo hilo juu ya upinzani wa pwani kaskazini mashariki, kwani inarejesha kutoka kwa athari za Sandy."