GEOG 322 - Ecologies of the City

The Anthropocene, the era of humanity as the dominant force reshaping the earth’s surface, is also the urban epoch. In 2007, the United Nations announced that city dwellers were now a majority of the world’s population, and the proportion has apparently continued to grow since. What implications does urbanization hold for the quality of the human habitat and for the sustainability of the global environment? What implications does environmental concern hold for urban patterns and processes? The course explores these questions in relation to the major domains of human-environment relations.

Credits: 1.00
Corequisite: None
Prerequisites: None
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: No First-year
Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents
Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges
Core Component: None

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