*Note: This is a guest post from John O. in the other class. Not a lot of this on the exam, but a good recap of urban planning challenges: Today we had a guest speaker in class, Garet Johnson from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg planning department. She spoke to us about urban planning and how it relates [...]
This is a blog post I’m making as both a personal study tool and a potentially beneficial class review. Enjoy! Urbanization is the demographic shift from rural areas to cities and their outlying urban areas. There are five major global trends regarding this phenomenon that you need to know: More people live in urban areas [...]
Cities provide many good things (jobs, social services, education, family planning, medical centers, arts programs) but create many problems. These web sites allow you to explore some major problems associated with cities and to explore some solutions. Leave a meaningful comment or question about one issue or city. A. Problems. Visit each web site & [...]
