October 28, 2008

  • Any suggestions for a planning issue?

    Word of the day: McMansion
    from Wikipedia,
    "McMansion is a pejorative neologism, coined by NY environmentalist Jay Westervelt, to describe a particular type of housing that is constructed in an assembly line fashion reminiscent of food production at McDonald's fast food restaurants."

    I'm trying to find a planning issue to write my reflection paper for my Urban and Regional Planning course on.  I was going to do the Santa Barbara Ranch Project (aka Naples) (the Board of Supervisors of SB County as recently as 10/21 voted in approval of it! ) but I think it'd be a larger task than I can reasonably undertake.

    Now, I'm looking at Gothamist, amNY (do they still hand those out every morning at subway station entrances ?? ) and related blogs in hopes of finding some current--having been featured in the newspaper in the last 6 months--planning issue to cover.

    I need to summarize the issue, highlight the debates (historic preservation, environmental concerns, economic progress, urban renewal, etc.) and provide my own recommendation, if applicable.  It has to be a maximum of 2,000 words, or roughly 6 pages.

    Does anyone have suggestions for a planning issue I could research?

    Question of the Post (er, question #2): What do people want me to bring back from HK?!? =]

Comments (2)

  • HI! long time no talk but i saw your xanga entry and thought i'd give my two cents! here in the east bay, there's a huge planning issue going on around the concord naval base. it's 5100 acres of land currently owned by the DoD but is in the process of being transferred over to private entities. there's a lot of different ideas of what the land could be used for and it's a big deal because it's one of the largest remaining developable areas in the entire region.

    http://www.concordreuseproject.org/
    http://www.contracostatimes.com/growth/ci_10442026
    http://www.ebho.org/

    just some sites you could look into if you're interested! i don't know if the east bay is regional enough for the class but it's a pretty interesting topic! let me know what you decide! =)

  • @jefer - Hi Jenn!  Thanks for your response!!  I looked at the websites, I think I'm going to do some more research on NYC's waterfront -- because parallels can be drawn to HK's harborfront.  This assignment must seem like a piece of cake to you !  Thanks again!

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