Over 50% of the world’s population live in urban areas. This course is designed to use the London urban area as the classroom as we look at human interaction in urban environment perspectives of the ecosystem: visual core, people and parks, energy use, recycling, re-use, urban agriculture, air and water, nature in the city, surrounding context, time perspective and solutions to problems. We will focus specifically on social enterprises (private, public and public-private) and use urban ecology in solutions to big urban problems (reducing the carbon footprint, ‘green consumerism’, and European models of sustainability). Visits and readings will support learning.