Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

LJMU Partner Taught

Learning Methods

Lecture
Seminar
Workshop

Module Offerings

7504CATSCI-JAN-PAR

Aims

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.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Demonstrate a critical and interdisciplinary understanding of the development of sustainable communities and cities within the context of the need for transformational system change.
2.
Identify some of the influences and interconnectedness of political, social, ecological, and economic systems on flows of energy, material, people, and knowledge through urban-rural systems.
3.
Critically evaluate and apply theories and interdisciplinary practice to the emergence of sustainable urban futures that accommodate the built environment and urban-rural ecologies.
4.
Effectively communicate complex ideas to a wider audience.

Module Content

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.

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