A lecture course for undergraduates and graduates

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 am Building 110 Room 111O

CLASSGEN 123 CLASSGEN 223 URBANST 115 (3-5 Units)

This course takes a long-term, comparative and archaeological view of urban design and sustainability. Cities are the fastest changing components of the human landscape and are challenging our relationships with nature. They are the historical loci of innovation and change, are cultural hotspots, and present a tremendous challenge through growth, industrial development, the consumption of goods and materials. We will unpack such topics over more than five millennia of city life, from the Near Eastern city states and Graeco-Roman antiquity, to the Indus Valley, and through the Americas.

This is a new contribution to the Program on Urban Studies at Stanford and the Woods Institute for the Environment http://woods.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/index.php initiatives in sustainability

Web site - http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/UrbanSustainability/