Start Date
02/06/2020
End Date
02/06/2020
Description
As cities across the globe continue to grow and evolve, new challenges and opportunities present themselves that seek a greater integration with natural systems. As planners, urban designers and landscape architects, we choose to explore environmental infrastructures that can help our urban areas connect, thrive, and survive; while enchancing liveability and contributing to healthy urban environments.
Integrating ecological processes with a site’s natural systems has significant benefits for urban design and planning. This design process results in a natural formal expression of a site’s character; seamless relationships between settlement patterns and ecological systems; increased interconnectivity between urban and open spaces; reduced environmental impacts; less need for hard infrastructures; and wildlife habitat preservation.
In this session, we investigate contrasting conditions in the US and other parts of the world, from urban waterfronts to suburban communities. How do we protect citizens against rising floods, improve water quality, and provide access to nature? How do we integrate wetlands, gathering places, eating places- plants, animals, and people- together? How do we transition from city to nature; what are the appropriate patterns in the rural ring?
In our exploration for solutions, we draw inspiration from nature and integrate science to reflect models of environmental infrastructure that: restore ecology, while promoting healthy activities; create multi-layered green systems that marry park, agriculture, drainage, and circulation; integrate open space reserves with compact development patterns; add lasting value to communities.
Location
West Lafayette, IN
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Site Planning
Health, Safety and Welfare
No
Hours
1.0
Learning Outcomes
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to integrate environmental infrastructures into the planning and design to help our cities and communities connect, thrive, and survive; while enchancing liveability and contributing to healthy urban environments.
- Explore how this environmental infrastructure can help against rising floods, improve water quality, provide access to nature, build places that bring people together.
- Examin case studies from the United States and other parts of the world.
Instructors
Dhaval Barbhaya,
Course Codes
Provider
Purdue LA Program/Center for Community & Environmental Design