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Sponge Cities: How Green Infrastructure Can Save Urbanization

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Gain an understanding of green infrastructure and its place in the future re-development of urban areas.

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What you can learn.

Learn key concepts, challenges, and opportunities in green infrastructure design and development
Get introduced to professionals in the green industry such as landscape architects, project managers, and developers
Overview the regulatory environment regarding green infrastructure
Study green infrastructure design principles
Understand how green infrastructure is built in urban areas

About This Course

This course seeks to introduce students to some of the major components of green infrastructure, which includes green roofs, green walls, bioretention wells, rain gardens, and other stormwater management systems. These systems integrate the fields of landscape architecture, horticulture, and civil engineering.

This course applies toward the following programs

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Horticulture

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Horticulture

certificate Take your love of plants and turn it into a career. The Horticulture Certificate provides students with the foundational science behind maintaining plants and their environment. This program may be completed 100% online.

Take your love of plants and turn it into a career. The Horticulture Certificate provides students with the foundational science behind maintaining plants and their environment. This program may be completed 100% online.

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Landscape Architecture

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Landscape Architecture

certificate Whether you want to design a national park, or a modest, water-efficient backyard, landscape architecture can give you the skills and abilities to change the places you live, work, and play for the better. The profession of landscape architecture is a multidisciplinary field that weaves together design, environmental systems, sustainability, construction knowledge—as well as land and water conservation—to influence place making, and to create designed outdoor living spaces.

Whether you want to design a national park, or a modest, water-efficient backyard, landscape architecture can give you the skills and abilities to change the places you live, work, and play for the better. The profession of landscape architecture is a multidisciplinary field that weaves together design, environmental systems, sustainability, construction knowledge—as well as land and water conservation—to influence place making, and to create designed outdoor living spaces.

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