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COURSES TAUGHT
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS NRE 501 Landscape Perception Approaches to Ecological Issues This seminar will:
Students who are interested in applying landscape perception research to design, planning, or policy issues, as well as students who plan to conduct landscape perception research, will find this course useful. Those who take the course for 3 or 4 credits will be expected to conduct a literature review on a related topic and/or develop a proposal for conducting their own landscape perception research. Class attendance, preparation, and participation in class discussion are the most important parts of this course. NRE 787 Metropolitan Design Studio: Design Dynamics of Urban Landscape Recovery This course challenges you to envision urban development across scales in a metropolitan setting, and to think beyond the distinct categories of brownfields and greenfields, open space and developed land, high density and low density. It asks you to consider the possibilities for your work as an intervention in a continuous urban place cycle in which the landscape is constantly and simultaneously changing at different scales that have different, but related causes. This urban place cycle includes, of course, ecological and hydrological dynamics, but it also includes atmospheric and geological dynamics, site engineering and construction; introduction, fate, and transport of pollutants and contaminants; economic use, occupancy, and abandonment of the site by different communities and for different purposes, and different aesthetic, spiritual, and cultural interpretations and interventions. NRE 576 Ecological Design Approaches to Brownfield Redevelopment Brownfield redevelopment is a rapidly evolving field in which a project’s success is dependent upon innovation and communication across many disciplines and professions – all linked by an aim to improve the environmental health and economic viability of contaminated sites. This course draws on practicing experts to introduce students in these disciplines to the wide-ranging issues that must be integrated for sustainable brownfield redevelopment: law and public policy, public health, public perception, environmental justice, environmental health, risk assessment, remediation, land planning, real estate finance and construction. Readings, lectures, a field trip, a charette, and a workshop critique of student work by visiting experts will allow students to gain a breadth of knowledge of factors that interact to affect the success of brownfield redevelopment. The course is structured to: Provide a comprehensive overview of issues and topics that affect brownfield redevelopment, Enable students to contribute their own critical, interdisciplinary thinking to further evolution of brownfield redevelopment, Challenge students to invent mechanisms to promote and adapt ecological design approaches to the particular challenges of remediation, redevelopment, and sustainable occupancy of formerly contaminated sites.
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