Capstone in Urban Sustainability

The Capstone Urban Sustainability Project is a credit course offered annually by the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada.

Each year since 2015 CUSP has offered a new challenge and experience for 4th year undergraduate students. The project adopts a collaborative case-study approach, recruiting teams of students who work together to analyse and resolve an identified urban or local issue within the Region of Waterloo, bringing to bear their understanding of both human and physical geography and environmental sustainability. Students work on a project that has been identified as a research need by a community partner, such as a municipality. Our community partner for CUSP since 2015 has been the City of Cambridge, Ontario. The project is intended to deal with aspects of urban planning and development with a solution grounded in principles of sustainability, and professional practice.