AP/SOSC 3714 3.00 Cities and Climate Change: The Challenge of Urban Resilience

AP/SOSC 3714 3.00

Cities and Climate Change: The Challenge of Urban Resilience

Cities face many challenges, but climate change presents some of the most urgent demands on governance, policy, and planning cities have ever experienced. Social inequalities are heightened in crises and are often determinative of success or failure in survival. This course examines the concept of resilience, asking how cities can pursue resilience in a context of climate uncertainty. Open to: Urban Studies majors and others as space permits.