The course is organized as a series of 7 modules (2 weeks each; each featuring a one-week virtual panel discussion):
Module 1: Overview to infrastructure and sustainable healthy cities, the need for infrastructure transitions, and for physical, social, behavioral, and institutional change
Module 2:City-wide infrastructure planning across all infrastructure sectors for environmental health, well-being, and livability (EHWL) outcomes; a framework to assess co-benefits and trade-offs among different desired social outcomes (EHWL) in different infrastructure configurations; a framework to assess multi-level social change
Modules 3 - 7: Students will break into groups to apply the ideas elucidated in the framework to different sectors, in the form of a team project: Energy; Transportation; Food (Including the Food-Energy-Water nexus); Green Infrastructure; Water-Waste Water Systems
Course will be online with options for in-person meetings among UMN students.