城市规划与可持续发展

课程编码：1801010705I0P1009Y 英文名称：Urban planning and sustainable development 课时：60 学分：3.00 课程属性：学科核心课 主讲教师：杨振山等

The aim of this course is to introduce knowledge and practice on-edge of urban planning towards sustainable development. It includes five sections: Fundamentals of Understanding Cities Towards Sustainable Development, Landscapes and Dimensions of Cities in Sustainable Development, and other three sections of Planning for Sustainable Cities, including Urban Systems, China’s Programs and its Contributions to the World, and Tools and strategies. The first section introduces basic ideas and concepts of cities and sustainable development, preparing knowledge for students to be engaged into planning process for sustainable agendas. The second section lectures the key dimensions of cities in details, including demographic, economic, social, natural and ecological aspects. The third section takes a systematic view to examine the city alongside sustainable agendas with students, covering energy, transportation, water, and environmental systems. The fourth section shares practices in China, including experiences and lessons and comparisons to the world, which is expected to generate deliverables for students from other countries. The last section relates to tools and strategies, such as smart cities, ecological cities and shrinking cities, which are emerging as new but important topics in city development. The course requires only basic pre-knowledge but quite intensive as it expands on city sustainable development step by step.

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第一章 Fundamentals of Understanding Cities Towards Sustainable Development 6.0学时 杨振山
第1节 Introduction: urban planning and sustainable development (key concepts and idea)
第2节 History of world urbanization: Cities in developed vs. developing world
第二章 Landscapes and Dimensions of Cities in Sustainable Development 9.0学时 戚伟
第1节 The social and demographic landscape of the city: Changing concepts and theories
第2节 The economic landscape of the city: Key concepts and theories
第3节 The nature and ecological landscape of city: Changing concepts and theories
第三章 Planning for Sustainable Cities: Urban Systems 15.0学时 杨振山
第1节 Cities as a mirror of energy
第2节 Sustainable transportation systems
第3节 Sustainable agricultural system for cities
第4节 Managing water and its use: Central issue for sustaining human settlements
第5节 Urban ecology, green networks and ecological design
第四章 Planning for Sustainable Cities: China’s Programs and its Contributions to the World 12.0学时 杨振山
第1节 Planning systems in China: Planning as a tool to promote sustainability
第2节 Creating and shaping economic competitiveness: Socioeconomic plan and special economic zones
第3节 Ecological protection and green space use in planning
第4节 Discussion: Changes of spatial planning in China and compared to the rest of the world: Explorations towards sustainable development
第五章 Planning for Sustainable Cities: Tools and strategies 18.0学时 杨振山
第1节 Assessing urban sustainability: Indicators and measurements
第2节 Smart cities and planning practices
第3节 Ecological cities and planning practice
第4节 Shrinking cities and planning practices
第5节 Discussion: Pathways, programs and policies of urban planning towards sustainable development
第6节 Exam

Prof. Dr. Yang, Zhenshan is a human geographer and urban planner working in the fields of development studies, geography, demography, and urban and regional studies. He is interested in employing interdisciplinary approaches of synergizing social, spatial, economic, ecological and institutional knowledge to investigate issues related to sustainable development. He is Full Professor at Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. He obtained his Ph.D (urban planning) from Utrecht University (UU) in the Netherlands. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in both leading international English and Chinese academic journals, of which about half are top ranked in SSCI/SCI-indexed journals in sustainable sciences and human geographical fields. He frequently works as reviewers for over 30 journals in the field of social sciences, geography, urban and regional development. He has been actively serving the World Bank, Asia Development Bank, European Commission, IDRC (Canada), RURF (funded by IDRC, FAO and DGIS), Lincoln Land Use Institute, Natural Science Foundation of China and China National Governments, and therefore he timely updates his knowledge with both theoretical and practical concerns of humanities in the world transformations. He is currently interested in investigating human and societal promotion towards sustainable development, particularly related issues SDGs, and topics of human capital, green development, urban agriculture, shrinking cities, and big data applications.