marc schlossberg, phd associate professor, planning, public policy & mgmt. co-founder and...
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Marc Schlossberg, PhDAssociate Professor, Planning, Public Policy & Mgmt.
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Sustainable Cities InitiativeUniversity of Oregon
We Can and Must Do More: Urban Planning Programs as Higher Education Leaders
SUSTAINABLE CITY YEAR PROGRAM (SCYP) @University of Oregon
Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP)
What if we could connect existing courses taught in their existing ways with existing faculty to a single city over an academic year to work on sustainability-related projects identified by city staff?
Catalytic Learning
• 16 projects• 28 courses• 500 students• 80,000 hours of work• 11 disciplines / 2 universities• 3 separate municipal corporations• 7 city departments• $330,000
2010/11
- Planning- Architecture- Public Policy- Landscape Arch- Interior Arch- Journalism-Digital Arts
- Product Design- Business- Law- Civil Engineering- Economics-Geography- Arts and Admin.
SCYP Disciplines
Gresham Sustainable City Hall
Erin Moore, Kelsey Beardsley, and Jean Von Bargen
Architecture
SCYP Projects
Bicycle Transportation
Rockwood Transit Node
Nico Larco, Rich Margerum, Bob Parker, Robert Young
Architecture and Planning
SCYP Projects
Industrial By-Product Re-Use
Jennifer Howard-Grenville
Business
SCYP Projects
SCYP Projects Salem Latino Civic Engagement
Gerardo Sandoval, Planning
Sustainable Streetlights
Jason Germany, Colleen Chrisinger
Product Design and Planning
SCYP Projects
- Scale matters- Multi-disciplinary- Planning as organizer- Opt in- Can work with existing applied work- Or not- Needs no permission- Based on existing resources- We charge cities $300k+
What’s the Difference?
- Cross disciplinary- Applied & relevant- Real impact to communities- Service to State- Meeting student and faculty interest
Benefits to our Universities
All based on the resources that already exists.
“The Sustainable Cities Initiative is perhaps the most comprehensive effort by a U.S. university to infuse sustainability into its
curricula and community outreach.” “In Oregon students seek key to a sustainable city”
August 23, 2011
“one of higher education's most successful and comprehensive
service-learning programs.”
Students Go Into the Consulting Business for CitiesScott Carlson, May 24, 2013
Sustainable City Year Awards
MAACs, not MOOCs• Massively• Applied• Action oriented• Curriculum
Catalytic Learning
Next Steps: Replicating the “Oregon Model” 1. Annual replication workshops
– NEXT: APRIL 2014– Cities and universities can come together– Already being implemented in 12 States
2. Consult and Advise– Prior to, in conjunction with, or subsequent
to workshop
3. National Network– Cities and universities forging new path
Marc [email protected] sci.uoregon.edu
We Can and Must Do More: Urban Planning Programs as Higher Education Leaders
