Musée du quai Branly, Paris

British Green Architecture Seminar

Spring 2022

Assignment: Green Cities of Europe
Presentations: Jan 27, Feb 3, and Feb 10

Please upload your case study to the course Google Drive folder prior to presentation. They will be available to course members while in the UK as well as before and after.

Each team is assigned a city presented in the textbook, Green Cities of Europe (GCE) and a North American city with which to compare it. Your task is to distill, interpret, and analyze information from the text and corroborating sources as well as provide color images of and graphics about the cities that support or argue against the author's claims. It would be most effective to compare your cities side-by-side in your presentation. Cite sources for all images and information included in your presentation. Do NOT simply read the text to your colleagues. The previous classes have developed a rating system for green cities that you will use in your Green Cities analysis and presentation as well as in your journal's discovery experiences. The rating system and your subsequent analyses and discovery experiences may form the basis for a future conference paper. Use this checklist as a guide to your analysis.

Reading Assignments before Jan 20

• "Introduction: Why Study European Cities," GCE, pp 1–28.
• Introductory material, London's Contemporary Architecture 6th ed., pp 9–21 
• Chapter 9, "Conclusion: Green Cities of Europe as Compelling Models," GCE, pp 215–224
• "A Green Cities Checklist: A Subjective Rating Rubric," pp 1–4

Exemplar Web Site

• London https://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/environment

Supplemental Videos

• CITY by Global Cities Institute http://vimeo.com/27484133
• Future Life from the Crystal Exhibition Zone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK9TP_B95nQ&feature=player_embedded