Assignment

1- Transportation planning: induced demand. Think about traffic movement after some freeway constructions.

2- Growth management: need, difficulty, and segregation issues. Home rules and local governance, and local political and cultural characteristics.

3- Defense of privileges: I am in let us use zoning as a tool. Segregation, and NYMBY issues

4- Structural Unemployment and why important for local economic development: local, regional and global phenomena

5- Community development and cost and benefits of such development: Think carefully about local development projects (environment, social, cultural, economic, etc.)

6- Why is regional planning difficult? (Again, local governance issues, federal funding based on local population)

7- Energy and Environmental Planning issues in America. How national political agenda dictate wider planning issues in these areas.

8- Metropolitan area planning and local area planning in America.