The "Greening the Ivory Towers" Project: The University of Auckland case study

Abstract

Dr Tom Fookes is an Associate Professor in Planning at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a member of the Wortd Society for Ekistics and a graduate of the Athens Center of Ekistics. He arranged an undergraduate Bachelor of Planning student project on Greening University Campuses with the students travelling to Toronto for the Natural City Symposion where they reported on their work with posters and in a formal presentation. The principal student presenters were Alison Hall and Logan Whitelaw in conjunction with Nicola Bishop, LLoyd Johnston, Karen Kao, and Michelle Lee, Bplan students in the Department of Planning, University of Auckland. The text that follows is based on a PowerPoint presentation at the international symposion, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.