Urban Planning 269 Environment in the Developing World
Quarter: Spring 2015Instructor: Susanna Hecht Susanna Hecht
This class frames a set of debates about global dynamics in terms of the dynamics of planetary change and the issues about development and environment as they are discussed today. We are in a world of economic and environmental globalization with significant transformations and probably several irreversibilities, but the catastrophist position may not be entirely warranted. We'll discuss why. And what might work. What is clear is significant paradigm shifts are in order, but how processes are operating, and the degrees of path dependencies are still open questions.
