PDS APES 8th Period 2009-10

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 to our area. Why do we need urban planning? The Charlotte-Mecklenburg area has been growing pretty rapidly over the past few decades. It’s still undergoing considerable development, and the population is expected [...]

I understand urbanization, the movement of people from rural to urban areas, and urban sprawl, when these people shift outwards to the suburbs as the city expands, my question is about the consequences of urban sprawl.  Just to clarify for myself, this is actually worse than people staying in the center city because it not [...]

*Note: This is a guest blog post by Michael G. in the other class.  Thought he did a nice job reviewing trends and key vocab for test.* 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 [...]

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 & [...]