Sustainability Plans for Future Cities
Overview
Sustainability Plans for the Future: A look into global cities and their plans and visions for the future.
Sustainability is the future, and the future is shaped by sustainable visions!
The students in CIVE230: Engineering and Sustainable Development go beyond the course content by learning from the world around us and from each other. This e-book has been the outcome of the project experience that allowed students to explore topics of their choice in cities of their choice. This e-book is now a souvenir from the course.
Students in the course were tasked with making a contribution to an e-book. The inspiration for the course project this term was to connect with the University of Waterloo’s newly launched Future Cities Institute so that they might think of future cities as Waterloo Region and surrounding regions explore their sustainable futures. The students were creative and innovative in applying course concepts to cities of their choice by exploring sustainability challenges and innovations.
Sustainability Plans for Future Cities
Sustainability is the future, and the future is shaped by sustainable visions!
The students in CIVE230: Engineering and Sustainable Development go beyond the course content by learning from the world around us and from each other. This e-book has been the outcome of the project experience that allowed students to explore topics of their choice in cities of their choice. This e-book is now a souvenir from the course.
Students in the course were tasked with making a contribution to an e-book. The inspiration for the course project this term was to connect with the University of Waterloo’s newly launched Future Cities Institute so that they might think of future cities as Waterloo Region and surrounding regions explore their sustainable futures. The students were creative and innovative in applying course concepts to cities of their choice by exploring sustainability challenges and innovations. Their sustainability project encouraged them to have a futures-thinking mindset and explore visions for the future that cities have committed to. The students also made a connection to the three dimensions of sustainability (environment, economy and society) from the perspective of the city and future vision that inspired them, and researched future plans for sustainable infrastructure, technologies, policies and initiatives, globally. Students took on the task of connecting these future plans and sustainability visions that make an impact – no matter how small – to relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).