Syllabus academic year 2007/2008
INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN BUILT ENVIRONMENTABA600

Higher education credits: 7,5. Grading scale: UG. Level: G2 (First level). Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish. Optional for: IBYA3. Course coordinator: Karin Grundström, karin.grundstrom@hdm.lth.se, Boende och bostadsutveckling. Prerequisites: At least 82 hp in the programme Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. The course might be cancelled if the numer of applicants is less than 10. Assessment: For approval of the course a minimum of 80% attendance is demanded at lectures, seminars and workshops, the student must hand in the assignments for approval and write a paper for approval. Further information: The course will be held with a minimum of ten students. Home page: http://www.hdm.lth.se.

Aim
The aim of the course is to give an orientation on sustainable development with a focus on the built environment in an international perspective. The aim is to generalize and tie together knowledge from previous courses by relating issues of sustainable development to the design of the built environment.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

in writing and with references to the course literature, be able to:

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

Contents
The course gives an insight on sustainable development of the built environment from an international perspective with a focus on low-income groups. One part of the course contains literature studies and one part contains a designexercise of a building and part of a housingarea.

The aim of the course is to give an introduction to the global goals and strategies for a sustainable development of the built environment, such as the UN-habitat Agenda, the World Urban Forum and the Millennium Development Goals.

Concepts of Urbanization, urban growth, and the distribution of the urban population in different regions of the world will be introduced. The course treats a number of themes on sustainable development of the built environment related to social, environmental and economic aspects. The following themes are included: use of public space, issues of safety and security, gender and physical planning, energy consumption and passive climatisation of buildings and urban space, slum-upgrading, finance for low-income housing and organized self-help housing.

The course aims to discuss and interpret the design of housing and urban planning related to themes of sustainable development of the built environment.

Examples include projects, case-studies and research from Algeria, Costa Rica, , Honduras, Morocco, Nicaragua, the Phillippines Sri Lanka, Sweden, South Africa and Tunisia.

Literature
Literature:
Correa, C. 2000. Housing and Urbanization. Thames & Hudson. ISBN:0-500-28210-2
Links:
United Nations Human Settlements Programme: http://www.unhabitat.org/
United Nations Millennium Development Goals: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
United Nations World Urban Forum: http://www.wuf3-fum3.ca/
Articles:
Environment and Urbanization; http://www.iied.org/human/eandu/eandu_details.html
Building issues: http://www.hdm.lth.se/bi/INDEX.HTM
En svensk strategi för hållbar utveckling - ekonomisk, social och miljömässig: http://www.regeringskansliet.se/content/1/c6/02/21/70/97605cbc.pdf
Making it happen, Sweden's report on the Millennium Development Goals 2004: http://www.regeringskansliet.se/content/1/c6/04/72/93/d13ae836.pdf
Checka listan, referensgruppen för jämställdhet i kommunal planering, Uppsala Kommun, 2001.