MAUD207 Elective-II / Urban Design
Coordinator: Dr Anand Wadwekar
Course outline
Through the lens of landscape, the subject operates within contemporary conditions whereby urban environments are understood as interconnected and related landscapes with far reaching implications at local and global scales. Their implications are reflected in current environmental concerns such as climate change, energy crisis and widespread pollution.
Session: 2020
Number of Students Registered: 07 (post graduate level)
Units
Social significance and implications for human health, environmental justice, and urban infrastructure – case studies from Europe and India- systems of social, political and economic world
Urban design process, as capacity to incorporate and give physical form to our growing scientific understanding of urban regions as social ecological systems
Facing the climate change risks and vulnerabilities – New ways of mapping, documenting and analyzing urban environments
Urban Ecology and City Form- relationships among design, infrastructure, and urban development- joining the three to achieve urban climate resilience and enhance sustainability-site studies in Bhopal and Indore.