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Urban & Controlled Environment Agriculture

Learn to grow food in urban settings using techniques like vertical farming, hydroponics, and rooftop gardening. This field addresses food security in densely populated areas.

24 courses

Urban Food Systems: Planning for Resilient Communities

Gain a foundational understanding of how urban development and policy influence food supply, access, and sustainability, empowering you to analyze and contribute to better city food environments.

Managing Urban Spaces: Downtown Management and Business Improvement Districts

Learn how to establish, govern, and evaluate downtown management organizations and business improvement districts to revitalize urban commercial areas and public spaces.

Urban Food Systems in the Global South: Sustainable Planning and Policy

Learn to analyze urban food security challenges and design sustainable, inclusive provisioning policies in developing cities using Cartagena as a core case study.

Food in American History: From Farm to Fast Food

Explore how industrialization, cultural traditions, and global trade shaped the modern American diet and food production system in this comprehensive historical guide.

Food and Nutrition Security in Urbanizing Landscapes

Learn how to design integrated, resilient food systems that connect rural producers with urban consumers to ensure sustainable nutrition security.

Introduction to Urban Geography: How Cities Shape Our World

Understand how cities grow, function, and face modern challenges with this foundational guide to urban geography and spatial inequality.

Comparative Urban Studies: Researching and Writing About Cities

Learn how to analyze, compare, and write about urban environments, public squares, and city life using structured research methods and modern urban planning concepts.

Food System Planning: History, Policy, and Community Development

Learn how urban planning, zoning, and economic policy shape food access, and gain the foundational skills to design resilient and equitable local food systems.

Feeding the City: Urban Planning and Sustainable Food Systems

Discover how to revitalize local neighborhoods and design equitable, resilient food systems using modern urban planning and community development strategies.

Neighborhood Economics: Revitalizing Local Communities and Main Streets

Learn how local economies function and discover practical strategies to revitalize urban main streets and build resilient community wealth.

Urban Information Systems: Analyzing Local Markets and Spatial Data

Learn how to leverage spatial data, open-source mapping concepts, and market analysis frameworks to understand economic trends and drive smart urban planning decisions.

Urban Information Systems and Spatial Data for Planning

Learn how to analyze urban markets and planning data using modern information systems and spatial analysis frameworks.

Introduction to Food Justice: Analyzing Policy, Ethics, and Systems

Learn how to analyze local and global food systems, identify systemic inequalities, and advocate for ethical, sustainable food policies in your community.

Urban Studies: Researching, Comparing, and Writing About Cities

Analyze urban environments, compare global municipalities, and write compelling city profiles using New Orleans and other major urban centers as case studies.

Urban Studies: The City as a System of Production

Explore how modern cities function as centers of economic and social production, and analyze urban development through spatial planning and cultural representation.

Urban Studies and Film: Analyzing the City's Heart

Explore how cinema captures urban life and learn foundational concepts of urban planning, public spaces, and modern city design.

Financing Food Access: Urban Planning and Economic Development

Discover how to design and fund food access initiatives in underserved urban communities using modern economic development finance and planning strategies.

Revitalizing Urban Main Streets and Public Markets

Learn how to breathe new life into declining commercial districts and historic public markets using modern urban planning and community development strategies.

Revitalizing Urban Main Streets: Public Markets and Community Planning

Learn how to transform declining urban corridors and historic public markets into thriving community hubs using modern planning and economic development strategies.

Analyzing Urban Conflict: Planning Challenges and Policy Interventions

Learn how to identify, measure, and document conflict in global cities while exploring modern urban planning policies and spatial justice frameworks to foster peace.

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