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Future Cities & Sustainable Development

Future City Competition
http://www.futurecity.org/

As a part of the events leading up to National Engineers Week, The Future City regional (N. California) competition will be held on campus on Saturday, January 28th. Teams of seventh and eighth grade students will be using SimCity software to design their city models, and then they will construct physical models of them. The contest is judged by these criteria: computer evaluation of the city, the computer city design, the city model, team presentations and project essays/abstracts written by the students on their project. The aim of the contest is to further student interest in engineering and science.

One of the objectives of the Future City competition is to create a model city that would work in harmony with the environment instead of against it—it will be "sustainable" instead of "harmful." The city will be energy efficient and recycled materials are used for construction.

The regional winner will be invited to participate in the national competition in Washington, D.C. February 22nd. Watch for photos taken during the competition They will be displayed in the University Library's lobby the week of January 30th - Feb. 20th.

For more about National Engineers’ Week,
National Engineers Week (February 19-25th)
http://eweek.org/

The Library Exhibit

SCU’s Civil Engineering department, the University Library, Environmental Studies department, University Operations department and the Cypress Residential Learning Community collaborated to present an exhibit and event covering sustainable building practices and sustainable living in conjunction with the Future City Competition.

Thank you to Steve Chiesa (Civil Engineering), Virginia Madzek, and Sean Watts (Environmental Studies), Joe Sugg (Operations), and Lester Deanes (Cypress RLC) for their contributions to this project.

Sustainability on Campus

Web Resources

Sustainable or Green Buildings

Other Sustainable Web Resources

Books on Sustainability

  • Building sustainable societies: a blueprint for a post- industrial world / Dennis C. Pirages, editor
    HC79.E5 B846 1996

  • Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water / Marc Reisner
    HD1739.A17 R45 1993

  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed / Jared Diamond
    On order for Orradre Main Stacks

  • Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things / William McDonough and Michael Braungart
    TD794.5.M395 2002

  • Designing the city: towards a more sustainable urban form / Hildebrand Frey
    Folio HT165.5 .F74 1999

  • Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster / Mike Davis
    HN80.L7 P37 1998

  • Evaluating sustainable development in the built environment /
    Peter S. Brandon and Patrizia Lombardi
    HT241 .B73 2005

  • Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons / Simon Levin
    QH541.15.B56L48 1999

  • Future cities: dynamics and sustainability / edited by Fred Moavenzadeh, Keisuke Hanaki, and Peter Baccini
    HT151 .F86 2002

  • Green building handbook: a guide to building products and their impact on the environment / Tom Woolley…[et al.].
    Folio TA401 .G74 1997

  • Green city: sustainable homes, sustainable suburbs / Low, Nicholas…[et al.].
    HT241 .G74 2005

  • Green development: integrating ecology and real estate / Rocky Mountain Institute ... [et al.]
    HD255 .G73 1998

  • Linking social and ecological systems: management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience / edited by Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke; and with the editorial assistance of Johan Colding.
    GF21 .L55 2000

  • Reinventing cities for people and the planet / Molly O'Meara, Jane A. Peterson, editor
    HT241 .O544 1999

  • Reshaping the built environment: ecology, ethics, and economics / edited by Charles J. Kier; foreword by Alex Wilson
    HD255 .R47 1999

  • Silent Spring / Rachel Carson
    QH545.P4 C38 1987

  • Supply-side Sustainability / Timothy F.H. Allen, Joseph A. Tainer, and Thomas W. Hoekstra
    QH541.A457 2003

  • Sustainability on campus: stories and strategies for change / Edited by Peggy F. Barlett and Geoffrey W. Chase
    LB3223.3 .S89 2004

  • Technology, humans and society: toward a sustainable world / Richard C. Dorf
    T173.8 .D67 2001

  • Towards sustainable development: environmental indicators / by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
    GE140 .T69 1998

  • Urban design: green dimensions 2nd ed / Cliff Moughtin with Peter Shirley
    NA9095 .M68 2005