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ARCH6888-1 / Summer 2021

Karen Kubey

Housing + Equity

Canvas

Bulletin

Housing is essential to human life and a human right. The design, configuration, location and cost of housing profoundly influences the health and wealth of all people. This course introduces students to an enormous challenge facing practitioners: how to house a growing population in a turbulent environment. Throughout the semester, we will investigate the stresses of environmental flux and the tools of climate response through the lens of housing need. We will reflect upon the tensions of two interrelated crises that are often treated separately. Given the urgent need for action, we will employ Marshall Gans’s framework for public narratives: Self, Us, Now to connect our design and policy explorations to an argument for transformation. We will use a combination of case studies from the field of practice as well as readings in policy, social science, and real estate.

We will familiarize ourselves with the economic and ecological forces that imperil the safety and stability of residential communities as well as a variety of adaptation interventions. Our considerations will include issues of tenure, “managed retreat”, infrastructure and forms of ecological and social regeneration. From issues of regulation: flood maps, and building code, socio-economic tools, and financial implements. We will focus on the assumptions and decisions in climate policy that may reinforce or replicate conditions of housing vulnerability. Therefore, we will pay special attention to spatial injustices such as racial segregation and economic inequality which shape exposure to climate risk and housing insecurity. Our discussion will center marginalized voices, including low-income, indigenous, and communities of color and the multi-generational implications of insecurity and forced migration.

Location & Time

Online

M 11 AM - 1 PM

Session & Points

FULL SEMESTER

3 Points

Sequence

Urban Design Seminar

Call Number

12504

Programs

M.S. Architecture and Urban Design

Chinedu Obinna Adiele, Anirudh Venkat Bodempudi, Lonas Chiu, Yifei Luo, Nupur Roy Chaudhury, Hyuein Song, Xiaofei Sun, Yunpeng Wu, Dhania Yasmin, Rui Zhang, Yong Zhuang

Summer 2021 - Housing + Equity

Karen Kubey

Other Semesters & Sections

Course	Semester	Title	Instructor	Requirements & Sequence	Location & Time	Session & Points	Call No.
ARCH6888‑1	Fall 2025	Climate Crisis & Housing Crisis	Deborah Helaine Morris	Urban Design Seminar	200 Buell North TU 6 PM - 8 PM	Full Semester 3 Points	10732
A6888‑1	Fall 2023	Climate Crisis, Housing Crisis	Deborah Helaine Morris	Urban Design Seminar	203 FAYERWEATHER TU 6 PM - 8 PM	FULL SEMESTER 3 Points	10087
A6888‑1	Fall 2022	Climate Crisis + Housing Crisis	Deborah Helaine Morris	Urban Design Seminar	200 BUELL N TU 3 PM - 5 PM	FULL SEMESTER 3 Points	12489