Urban Solutions
Click on the following links to guide your ideas for solving the problem of urbanization, suburbanization, exurbanization (sprawl).
You can also search for "urban solutions" or "urban planning" and Chicago to help you find ideas to solve the problem you are identifying.
The importance of parks (video)
Vertical farming in old factories (video)
Restoring rivers could help cool cities
The Dorchester Project
Turn parking lots into villages
Englewood New Communities program
NEA Our Town program
Gentrification
Parking lots as public spaces
Ideas for fixing Detroit
Art In America Program
Planning Los Angeles
White House Initiative for neighborhoods
High gas prices limit growth of exurbs
Smart parking meters
Sprawl is on the skids as people move to cities
Population and sprawl (smart growth)
Consequences of suburbanization (video)
New Chicago Arts HS in old Malcolm X College building
Feel free to reach out on twitter to these people who work in urban planning at the college level:
@urbandata
@UCUrbannetwork
@theurbanportal
@urbancolab
@urbaninsitute
@MITcolab
You can also search for "urban solutions" or "urban planning" and Chicago to help you find ideas to solve the problem you are identifying.
The importance of parks (video)
Vertical farming in old factories (video)
Restoring rivers could help cool cities
The Dorchester Project
Turn parking lots into villages
Englewood New Communities program
NEA Our Town program
Gentrification
Parking lots as public spaces
Ideas for fixing Detroit
Art In America Program
Planning Los Angeles
White House Initiative for neighborhoods
High gas prices limit growth of exurbs
Smart parking meters
Sprawl is on the skids as people move to cities
Population and sprawl (smart growth)
Consequences of suburbanization (video)
New Chicago Arts HS in old Malcolm X College building
Feel free to reach out on twitter to these people who work in urban planning at the college level:
@urbandata
@UCUrbannetwork
@theurbanportal
@urbancolab
@urbaninsitute
@MITcolab