Strategies for Urban Livability
Spring Semester only
Available Spring 2013
| 3 credits
| Elective
Majors:
Architecture,
Landscape Architecture,
Public Health,
Public Policy,
Sociology,
and
Urban Design
Four contemporary strategies are explored. City as Human
Habitat: quality of life through climatic conditions, transport
systems, public space. Democratic City: social sustainability
in City development. Bicycle Urbanism: Danish bicycle culture
in urban planning and at the socio-cultural level. European
“Fit City”: the physical environment supporting healthy
lifestyle. Copenhagen will be used as an ‘urban laboratory’
to study how the four strategies are reflected in the urban
environment.
Instructors
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Bianca Hermansen
Architect, M.A.A., Cand.arch. (Landscape Urbanism, The School of Architecture Aarhus, 2007). Ph.D. candidate (Center for Sports and Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of FineArts). Project Manager and Urban Designer at Gehl Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007-2009. With DIS since 2010.
