Course Description:

How do scientists, landscape architects, environmental planners, and other professionals use science and technologies, in conjunction with design, to improve urban health? Urban issues will be viewed through several lenses and frameworks, including the ecosystem model, the "green infrastructure" concept, mapping, and various landscape performance benchmarks and guidelines. Students will understand the urban ecosystem dynamics of cities and urbanized places including the relationship between soils, trees, water, wildlife, and the built environment here in Philadelphia and in other cities around the world.

Course Learning Goals:

1.) To understand the urban ecosystem dynamics of cities

2.) To learn how to inventory and measure environmental variables

3.) To engage the community and one another in environmental stewardship, and

4.) To propose methods and techniques for assessing and restoring urban habitat while also addressing community-based issues surrounding various land use patterns

Course Format:

This section of Green vs. Gray, 701, is taught asynchronously. There are no scheduled meeting times and the course is delivered entirely via Canvas. It is imperative that you regularly log into this Canvas Course and check the announcements (which also land in your Temple email) for reminders, updates, and important communications.

Course Syllabus:

Fall22_GVG701_Syllabus.pdf

Course Schedule:

Fall22_GVG701_Schedule.pdf

Frequently Used Canvas Links:

Modules

Announcements

Grades

Assignments

Resources for this Semester:

Stewardship Project Resources

Student Resources

Instructor Information:

Erin Smith, she/her/hers, MLA

tuf14979@temple.edu

Office hours: virtual, by appointment