Soils for the Urban Eden
Hort/CSS 4930
More info: amp4@cornell.edu
- 2 credits
- Meets first 7 weeks of the semester
- Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Lecture: 1:25-2:15
Lab: 2:30-4:25 - Prerequisites:
Hort/LA 4910 and 4920 or
CSS 2600 - Instructors: Marty Petrovic, Jonathan Russell-Anelli, Nina Bassuk, other guest lecturers
Topics:
- Understanding urban soils: What are urban soils? How do they differ for conventional soils? Properties of urban soils. Variation in urban soil properties.
- Challenges of growing plants in the urban environment: poor soil health.
- Managing soils for high use urban areas.
- Managing contaminated urban soils.
- Constructed soils for urban plantings and container plants.
- Sustainable urban storm water systems including green roofs, constructed biofilters and rain gardens.
- Soil remediation and soil modification.