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Spring 2010: Finding Space, Understanding Place
Redesigning Our Region for Resilience
Full-time, 15 credits (DIAL 390W, 391W, 392W).
COURSE DESCRIPTION
We will use MetroVancouver as our laboratory to explore the multiple dimensions of land use as they relate to new urban development, rural land use and policy regarding the future of land in our region. This program brings together planners, writers, policy makers, and leading thinkers, as well as business and community leaders to examine how the decisions we are making today are significantly altering the region.
We will use a systems approach to pose some fundamental questions examining land use in the region:
Who decides which lands are used for which purposes?
How can citizens affect those decisions?
Where will we find space for another million people in the Lower Mainland?
How does land use have to change to adapt to global climate change?
What land uses should have top priority to create a resilient region?
Plan to be enchanted, mesmerized and intrigued while engaging deeply with leading experts in sustainable development, community planning, cultural change and social responsibility. The class will be charged with convening a large public event that will help MetroVancouverites re-engage in a dialogue-archive about our region.
FACULTY
Janet Moore is a faculty member at the Centre for Dialogue at SFU, collaborator with the SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development and leader of a social network of sustainability educators (walkingthetalk.bc.ca).
Peter Ladner is a former politician and business owner who is currently a business columnist and sustainability consultant.