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ENS3210 Sustainable Community Planning & Design

Advanced · 1 credit · NAT - Natural Resources

Description
Students examine existing examples of community planning, evaluate different aspects of planning, investigate promising practices for sustainability and design a sustainability plan for the community they live in.
Prerequisite
ENS2210: Sustainable Building Design & Construction
Supporting courses
ENS3030: The Green Economy ENS3050: Environmental Politics

Outcomes The student will:

  • 1 analyze urbanization and urban growth provincially, nationally and globally

    • 1.1 research the major causes of urban growth, including:

      • 1.1.1 natural growth (ratio of births to deaths)

      • 1.1.2 push factors; e.g., poverty, lack of agricultural land, low employment, famine

      • 1.1.3 pull factors; e.g., jobs, food, housing

    • 1.2 identify patterns or trends in provincial, national and global urbanization and urban growth

    • 1.3 assess the effects on urban life caused by urbanization and urban growth

    • 1.4 define urban sprawl and identify its effects on quality of life and sustainable development

  • 2 research urban resource and environmental challenges caused by urbanization and urban growth

    • 2.1 describe advantages of urbanization and urban growth; e.g., job opportunities, access to health care and education

    • 2.2 describe disadvantages of urbanization and urban growth; e.g., sustainability, concentration of pollutants, lack of biodiversity

    • 2.3 identify potential solutions to the challenges of urbanization and urban growth

  • 3 assess the effects of transportation systems on urbanization and urban growth

    • 3.1 investigate the effects of land availability and transportation systems on urbanization and urban growth

    • 3.2 identify the role of motor vehicles and their effects on North American urbanization and urban growth

    • 3.3 identify and assess policies designed to reduce motor vehicle use in urban environments

    • 3.4 identify and assess alternative transportation systems

  • 4 evaluate the effects of urban land-use planning and control policies and legislation

    • 4.1 identify conventional land-use planning and control policies and legislation

    • 4.2 compare and contrast zoning and smart growth policies and legislation in land-use planning and control

    • 4.3 illustrate a variety of alternative methods for sustainable urban development and the preservation and conservation of land resources

  • 5 design, present and defend a sustainable urbanization and urban growth plan for a community, considering: • sustainable transportation systems; e.g., walking and cycling, mass transit • recycling, reducing and reusing waste • food production • conservation and preservation of biodiversity • reclamation of brownfield land (unused or underused commercial and industrial land) • community revitalization

  • 6 demonstrate basic competencies

    • 6.1 demonstrate fundamental skills to:

      • 6.1.1 communicate

      • 6.1.2 manage information

      • 6.1.3 use numbers

      • 6.1.4 think and solve problems

    • 6.2 demonstrate personal management skills to:

      • 6.2.1 demonstrate positive attitudes and behaviours

      • 6.2.2 be responsible

      • 6.2.3 be adaptable

      • 6.2.4 learn continuously

      • 6.2.5 work safely

    • 6.3 demonstrate teamwork skills to:

      • 6.3.1 work with others

      • 6.3.2 participate in projects and tasks

  • 7 create a transitional strategy to accommodate personal changes and build personal values

    • 7.1 identify short-term and long-term goals

    • 7.2 identify steps to achieve goals

Program of Studies 2010. Source document, © Alberta Education.