702-330 Housing Sustainability

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702-330 Housing Sustainability
Availability	Offered in 2005 and alternate years thereafter.
Credit Points	12.5
Coordinator	Associate Professor Nicholas Low
Prerequisites	705-289 Urbanisation and Urban Development
Semester	2 (view timetable)
Contact	Two hours of lectures and one tutorial per week
Subject Description	Today's housing design, technology, planning and regulation is using up the Earth's environmental resources at an unsustainable rate. Solutions to this problem are readily available. This subject explores the problem of unsustainable housing and solutions at different scales. The subject proceeds from the scale of the 'sustainable house', to the design of neighbourhoods and 'green' or environmental development, to the 'sustainable city' and its regulatory system. Along the way we look at current issues and debates. In exploring sustainable housing, the subject also provides students with a basic understanding of the Australian system of housing provision and the production, consumption, exchange and management of housing in a market society.
Assessment	Tutorial exercises to a maximum of 2000 words (50%); a research essay to a maximum of 2000 words (40%), participation in class (10%).

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