Everyone’s favorite online video destination has an intriguing new category called Youtube EDU, where various universities post everything from short informational clips to full lectures onto the site for anyone to view. So far it’s a bit like a video Wikipedia, or an online version of UWTV – you can come here to take all 30 class lectures of a Multivariable Calculus course from UCBerkeley or see how Stanford University maps the 18th-century letter correspondence of Locke and Voltaire. Of course, UW is also on there with its own channel. It’s a great resource and also has the added benefit of being free to the public (like anything great on the Internet).
What I found on there that might be of interest to CEP students is a talk from Case Western Reserve University with speaker Doug Farr, an architect and planner who wrote Sustainable Design: Urban Design with Nature. In this talk, Farr discusses how LEED certification of buildings can only do so much since it doesn’t take into account how buildings are integrated sustainably with its surroundings. He argues that we need to think differently about we organize our cities – more densely in more compact, complete, and walkable neighborhoods – to design sustainability into the way we live. The video is an hour and 20 minutes long, but may be worth it for the ideas and case studies presented about planning and architecture design.
So cool.
Thanks for sharing stuff like this.
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