90-765, Perspectives on the City and Environment
12 units
Prerequisites: None
Delivery Format: On-Campus
Description: This course will explore the interaction over time between natural and built environments in the United States. It will focus on the processes of city growth and of suburbanization, and their impact upon the natural environments of city site and hinterland. It will consider how urban processes such as infrastructure construction, waste disposal, and industrial development affect the air, land and water media. Among the topics to be considered are the shaping of the urban landscape, urban pollution generation, nature in the city and the park movement, suburbanization and the environment, and the uses and abuses of rivers. The course will make extensive use of the Pittsburgh region as a case study of the exploitation and restoration of an urban environment, with a special focus on the issue of brownfields creation and revitalization. The course is of particular relevance to students in the Urban Development Concentration.
Last modified on June 1, 2006
