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The Real Estate Solutions and Systems module considers both what real estate is, why we have created real estate and how this real estate both involves and contributes to a variety of different system types that range from the highly technical building services through to the cultural and institutional systems that define localities, regions and nations. This module draws upon a wide literature, with a focus on more strategic and systems based thinking.

Module aims

The foundational intellectual positioning and premise is that buildings and our built environment are the manifest solution to a problem or opportunity. Our built environment is man-made and therefore there will be purpose in what is created. The simple fact that in all locations and circumstances, wherever mankind can build structures – it has and does. The observation that our buildings and built environment varies as diversely as it does is testament to the range of problems and opportunities that we, as an intelligent and industrious species, have and continue to face.

From this backdrop, the module will move rapidly on to deal with leading-edge thinking and practice, as we move from a linear developmental pathway (e.g. from poverty to wealth, from ignorance to wisdom, from threatened to safe) to one that is more circular and where the limits to linearity need to be both recognised and actioned and where the disparity between the haves and have-nots, the can-do and the can’t do, whether for moral, ethical, financial or practical reasons, need to be addressed. In accord with this, a key differentiator for this module will be the dual consideration of the focus on a separable discreet real estate asset as well as the interlinked and interdependent building as set within both its built and natural environment system.