PDS AP Environmental Science 5th Period 2010-11

Here is the slideshow of our scavenger hunt for good and bad urban/suburban design in the Charlotte-Metro area:

So, this is a nice 3 minute video by National Geographic that ties together ideas from Unit 6 and 7. Lots of humans on the this planet, and they are migrating to urban areas… You worried yet?

We’ve been identifying some urban and suburban areas in Charlotte and surrounding towns that are poorly laid out or show a lack of planning in our flickr group pool. What can cities do when there is a need to redo such areas? Here is neat 20-minute TEDTalk on the subject if you have time to [...]

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 [...]

AP Environmental Science classes this past Thursday were able to have the privileged opportunity to listen to guest speaker, Garet Johnson of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department, about our Charlotte community. The Charlotte Mecklenburg Planning Department’s mission is to provide integrated planning services that promote substantial growth to improve our community’s way of life with the [...]

For anyone out the day Garet Johnson (urban planner) of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department spoke to the class, here is the slide deck of her presentation. ConorR wrote a scribe post about her visit that you can access here. Charlotte’s Future View more presentations from Derrick Willard.

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 [...]