ARPL 586B Healthy Cities, Livable Places
This graduate-level course is organized around the principle that healthy residents and livability are core attributes of sustainable communities. A community lacking these attributes is not, by definition, sustainable and a sustainable community will, by virtue of its adherence to the principles of sustainability, be inherently healthy and livable. The amount and nature of the required attention to its environment, its economy, and its people assures this equivalence. Through its thirteen modules, the course explores the various methods and strategies that communities can use and are using to move toward the ideal of sustainable development, with a particular focus on underlying ethics and theories and the local institutional and instrumental dynamics related to balancing the "three E's" of economic development, social equity, and environmental protection.