ABSTRACT
This chapter explains a four-module course to train future architects, urban designers and planners in matters related to cities and climate change and peak oil. The first module, Sustainable Urbanism, is a theory module with lectures covering how climate change and peak oil relate to city form and urban life; its contents are structured into a possible comprehensive normative theory of sustainable urban design. The second module is a Sustainable Urban Design Studio where the knowledge learned in the previous module is applied to the design of a large urban district in a dense city or a 'greenfield' site. The third module, Sustainable Development Control, is also lecture-based and discussed the connection between standard development controls, planning regulation and designing sustainable cities. The fourth module, the research seminar Sustainable Infrastructure Spatial Design, is where students explore in more depth one of the aspects of sustainable cities, its technical, social and financial feasibility, and how this aspect relates to urban space.
