URBN 399 Post-Industrial Community Revitalization

This class is designed to give students an active role in impacting industrial communities globally through the lenses of equity, inclusion, and justice using Jiu Valley, Romania as our industrial context. We will begin with a historical overview of U.S. and global industrialization with an emphasis on mono-economies like coal and other fossil fuels. This overview will analyze key policies and local decisions that led areas like Appalachia in the U.S. and the Jiu Valley in Romania to look the way they do today. Students will then learn the contemporary challenges facing industrial communities using the Jiu Valley as an applied case study, gathering available community data, insight, and global best practices centered around implementing an equitable neighborhood revitalization strategy for a former mining colony in Petrosani, Romania.