Jan 10 2011
On Friday (1/7/11), we looked back on a week of learning about urban planning. We spent most of the period discussing lessons from playing Urban Plan 2001. First of all, we honored the grand champion of both classes, AlanM. Here is a screenshot of Alan’s city of 2 million plus people: Alan described some of [...]
Jan 08 2011
This is a cross post by KerrisG in the other class (your class has less folks to assign scribe duties to). Our text defines urbanization as the shift from people living in rural areas to people living in urban areas and is probably the greatest change our society has undergone since the transition from a [...]
Nov 01 2010
Most of our prior studies have been focused on the components that make up our world, but, in reality, the world isn’t made up of individual components, but rather of one complex whole. While categories are useful to understand subject matter, the planet operates as a complex network of interlinked systems. This is the reason [...]
