MPlan Planning

• To introduce the field of Green Infrastructure, green space planning and the development of sustainable cities by addressing the principles, values and utility of each concept within urban planning.
• To provide an understanding of the planning mechanisms that govern the development of Green Infrastructure resources within sustainability debates.
• To examine the influence of landscape ecology and the politics of planning on urban development to question how, where and why we use landscape resources to meet quality of life and place agendas.
• To draw links between the role of Green Infrastructure planning in supporting sustainable city objectives and the process of management and monitoring.
• To provide students with the socio-economic and ecological knowledge they require to evaluate the added value that urban greening, Green Infrastructure and the development of sustainable urban landscapes can provide in real world planning scenarios. 

Teaching and learning will be through weekly lectures, fours seminars with directed reading and a field visit.

To introduce the concept of Green Infrastructure and sustainable cities from their historical antecedents to their current use.

• To introduce the policy context of Green Infrastructure and planning for sustainable cities and examine the influences of political will, financial incentives and social needs in developing greener and more sustainable urban environments
• To develop an understanding of how Green Infrastructure and sustainable urban thinking can be, and is being, implemented through a more in-depth assessment of a series of global case studies.

• Group working
• Essay writing

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