The minor in Sustainable Cities emphasizes sustainability, community engagement, and social justice. It provides students with a deep learning experience that integrates classroom learning and real-world, community-based project experience in creating sustainable communities, with a focus on the built urban environment. The minor is affiliated with the Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education - SCoRE.

Cities are complex systems and the minor explores this complexity - transportation, housing, social justice, environmental planning, climate change, food systems, sprawl, resilience, smart growth, etc. and connections with other disciplines such as engineering, data science and analytics, public health, social work, urban design, urban planning, etc.

The minor in Sustainable Cities consists of five courses and fifteen credit hours. It includes:

• one 3-credit required course - CP 2233: Sustainable Urban Development
• one 3-credit hour key content course - choose one of four course options (If you take more than one of these courses, one will count towards the key content requirement, the other(s) can count towards the City Planning course list elective requirement - 3d bullet point on this list)
• one 3-credit elective from a list of courses offered by the School of City and Regional Planning
• one 3-credit elective selected from a list of courses offered in related academic disciplines
• one 3-credit elective drawn from the courses on either list - CP or related academic disciplines.

The lists of courses shown below are not exhaustive. With permission of the Chair of the School of City and Regional Planning students may substitute one course with substantial Sustainable Cities content that is not on the below lists. All courses previously approved by the Chair will be included on an updated list below. Check out our newest addition to our course list : CP 4813: World Cities (3 credits).

A maximum of 3 credit hours of transfer credit may be used to satisfy the course requirements for a minor. This includes courses taken at another institution or credit earned through the AP or IB program, assuming the scores meet Georgia Tech minimum standards.

All courses counting toward the minor must be taken on a letter-grade basis and must be completed with a grade of C (2.00) or better.

It is the responsibility of the student and major advisor to verify that any courses a student wishes to count toward both a major and a minor meet all the Georgia Tech and major School requirements. For Georgia Tech minor requirements see the Catalog entry describing requirements for any minor.

If you have questions about the minor, please contact our office. To officially declare the minor, please complete the Change of Minor form.