We'd like you to read the full Full New York City Green Infrastructure Plan by the
mid-review, session 7.
other readings are due on the day of the session
Session 1 - Wednesday May 16th
Required Readings
+ New York City Green Infrastructure Plan 2011 annual report
Recommended Resources
+ EPA's Green Infrastructure website Just take a look around the site, we will be looking at particular articles/ links as we get further into the class.
LECTURE: overview + introduction
Session 2 - Saturday May 19th
Required Readings
+ Kahn, Andrea. “Defining Urban Sites”. Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and
Strategies. Routledge: NY, 2005. handed out in class
Session 3 - Wednesday May 23rd
LECTURE: what is design
Session 4 - Wednesday May 30th, no readings due
Recommended Resources
mid-review, session 7.
other readings are due on the day of the session
Session 1 - Wednesday May 16th
Required Readings
+ New York City Green Infrastructure Plan 2011 annual report
Recommended Resources
+ EPA's Green Infrastructure website Just take a look around the site, we will be looking at particular articles/ links as we get further into the class.
LECTURE: overview + introduction
Session 2 - Saturday May 19th
Required Readings
+ Kahn, Andrea. “Defining Urban Sites”. Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and
Strategies. Routledge: NY, 2005. handed out in class
Session 3 - Wednesday May 23rd
LECTURE: what is design
Session 4 - Wednesday May 30th, no readings due
Recommended Resources
Gaia soil pamphlet
Session 5 - Saturday June 2nd: working session, no readings due
Session 6 - Wednesday June 6th: systems diagrams, desk crits, no readings due
IMAGES: diagrams
Session 6 - Wednesday June 13th: peer review, conversation with facilities
complete your reading of full NYC Green Infrastructure Plan
Session 5 - Saturday June 2nd: working session, no readings due
Session 6 - Wednesday June 6th: systems diagrams, desk crits, no readings due
IMAGES: diagrams
Session 6 - Wednesday June 13th: peer review, conversation with facilities
complete your reading of full NYC Green Infrastructure Plan
Session 7 - Wednesday June 20th:
Guest lecturer, Kubi Ackerman of the Urban Design Lab at Columbia University's Earth Institute.
Required Readings
+ Center for Neighborhood Technology. “The Values of Green Infrastructure, A Guide to Recognizing it's Economic,Environmental and Social Benefits”. 2010.
LECTURE
+ metrics and associated class assignment
Session - Wednesday July 11th
Required Readings
+ Introduction to Civic Agriculture
Lyson, Thomas. Civic Agriculture. Tufts University Press: NH, 2004.
+ Michael Pollan's "Why Bother" nytimes april 20, 2008
+ Bringing Nature Home "Who Cares about Biodiversity?"
Tallamy, Douglas. Bringing Nature Home. Timber Press: Oregon, 2009.
+ Rebecca Solnit's "The Thoreau Problem" orion magazine, may / june 2007
