Course Catalogue

LJMU Partner Taught

a) Develop an overview of current research and discourse concerning transformational strategies and planning for just and sustainable cities and communities, understood in relation to current and future ecological and environmental contexts. b) Gain a critical understanding of key elements, infrastructures, maintenance issues, energy budgets, material flows, waste disposal, transportation and social systems that underlie the distribution and governance of energy and material in and through cities. c) Critically assess the systematic factors that influence the development of environmental, political, economic and policy strategies. d) Critically apply practical and/or theoretical understandings of change, transformational adaptation, and the built environment in formative peer-to-peer settings and place-based contexts.

Outline Syllabus:The module will Introduce students to the complexities of cities and communities and their local – global interconnections, and how these conditions interact with the task to transform, reclaim, and reproduce the city and built environment amid global environmental change. Workshops and a formative presentation help students explore and discuss real spaces. Students will build on multiple and interdisciplinary thinking in relation to: • Productions of urban and community spaces and places in the Anthropocene. • Climate and ecological breakdown, cities, and their interconnections at different spatial levels. • Interdisciplinary approaches to transformation in cities and communities. • Environmental and climate justice and injustice in urban settings. • Urban specific design, planning, and processes of transformation and regeneration in the built environment. • Social, political, ecological, and cultural implications of sustainability transitions and transformations of space and infrastructures. • Community based and grassroots initiatives. • Understanding the role of urban resistances, reclamations, and reproductions of space that challenge unsustainable and unjust systems and practices.

Additional Information:This module is available to be studied on-site or at distance.