LARC 3170 — Landscape Planning and Urbanism Studio
6 semester hoursUndergraduateStudiousually offered: falltypical days: M/ThBostonTraditional
Introduces sustainable landscape planning techniques with an emphasis on adaptive urbanism. Key topics include the designed and managed relationship of cities to their regional ecologies, such as sub/urbanized watersheds and coastal zones, as well as the spatial, material, and programmatic roles of environmental infrastructures in the civic landscape. Particularly emphasizes the market-based integration of recreation, transit, food, housing, and industrial networks with living systems such as urban forests, riparian corridors, managed habitats, and constructed wetlands.
Prerequisites
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 67% | 2.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 17% | 5.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 100% · T 0% · W 0% · Th 100% · F 0%
Common patterns: MR (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Marie Adams (80% of students) · reviews
- Elizabeth Yarina (20% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
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Courses that list LARC 3170 in their prerequisites.
Links
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