Livability in the Modern City
Fall Semester only
| 3 credits
| Elective
Majors:
Landscape Architecture,
Sociology,
Urban Design,
and
Urban Studies
How do we make our cities livable in the face of population growth, traffic congestion, competing claims on urban space, and economic decentralization favoring suburbia? Drawing on expertise and insights from the social sciences, architecture, urban design, public health and other fields, this course will focus on topics that affect the quality of life in cities. Field studies and onsite analyses utilize Copenhagen as an urban laboratory to investigate how design can both shape urban environments and respond to urban problems.
Field Studies
- Malmo
- The nearby Swedish city - Malmo - has prime examples of modern architecture. The class travels to a modern development just outside of Malmo and then goes straight to Jakriborg, a new development that is supposed to replicate ancient Swedish cities.
- Amager
- Lastly, the class visits Amager, the southern island located below Copenhagen, and explores the new development in that area.
Instructors
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Regitze Marianne Hess
Architect, M.A.A. (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1993). B.Eng. (Civil Engineering, McGill University, 1985). Practicing architect. With DIS since 2003.
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Jeffrey Risom
M.Sc. (City Design and Social Science, London School of Economics, 2009). B.S. (Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 2001). Urban Designer at Gehl Architects, Copenhagen since 2003. With DIS 2001-2003 and since 2004.
