Framing questions are very important when starting to look at a project. Every time I start a project that maybe needs to be adjusted in some way or another I always forget to go back and look at my framing question. By the time I do, it is so clear that having a good framing […]
California and Climate Change Planning and Prep | Sustainable Cities Collective
A smart growth approach would focus growth in more walkable neighborhoods within existing developed areas, supported through improved public transit options. This and mixed-use development (combining housing, commercial, and other uses) reduces the distances people have to travel. More people are able to accomplish more of their daily activities through easy, local access to shops, […]
Resilience
After reading Urban Centers: An Assessment of Sustainability by McGranahan et al., I realized that I needed a new way to disagree with the idea of sustainability. I knew that I didn’t quite agree with what McGranahan brought up, but I wasn’t sure how to disagree. Brown et al. and Sellberg et al. introduced me to […]
Giving It a Try
A skill that my concentration in particular has helped me to develop is to “give it a try”. It is difficult to be planning in advance something as significant as the next two and a half years of my schooling, so the process could have very easily shut me down without letting me figure out what […]
The Big Words: Sustainability and Development
Urban Centers: An Assessment of Sustainability was one of the first articles that I read in preparation for my concentration. This article proposes a way in which sustainability should be used in urban planning and how it has or has not been successful in certain contexts. Surprisingly, I found that I disagreed with many of […]
A First Look at Urban Planning
Urbanization, while on one end results in habitat loss and the expansion of many city’s ecological footprints, is also a way in which to transition into a more “sustainable” urban area. This leads me to one of my first questions regarding urban planning and urbanization: what is sustainability?? Everyone wants it, everyone seems to know […]