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Doug Johnston,

Associate Professor

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General Course Outline

Outline

• Introduction
• What is Ecological Design?
• Examples/Definitions
• What’s in a name?  Smart Growth/Sustainable Development/Transit Oriented Design/New Urbanism/Low Impact Design –
• Social constructs for system steering
• Efficiency
• Equity
• Aesthetics
• Ethics…
• What types of systems?
• Energy
• Material
• Water
• “meta-systems” (how each of the above affects the other)
• Scales/Areas of Practice
• Regional/Community
• Objectives
• Approaches
• Watershed/Locale
• Objectives
• Approaches
• Site/Building
• Objectives
• Approaches
• Specific Methods and techniques
• Water systems and infrastructure (quantity and quality) – plants and water
• Green roofs
• Gray water systems
• Constructed wetlands
• Bioswales
• Energy/Climate
• Interaction of vegetation and (solar) energy
• Conservation
• Material and production processes
• Maintenance processes
• Material and Labor
• Construction processes
• Materials (embedded energy, life cycle, etc)
• Evaluation Methods
• Effectiveness:  Performance Assessment
• Efficiency criterion:  CBA
• Rating Systems:  e.g. LEED

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