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Urban Growth

'The Big Apple', United States, New York, New York City, Brooklyn Bridge & Financial District

 "Cities are not problems. They are solutions." - Jaime Lerner

“The key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life -- for 8 billion or more people -- without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.” -Edward O. Wilson

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the need for infrastructure both domestic and international
  • Communicate why more sustainable infrastructure is necessary
  • Explore the challenges to meet the global sustainable development goals.

Agenda

  1. Recap The World Biggest Problems.
  2. Slides - Demand for Infrastructure 
  3. Activity - Compare MDGs to SDGs
  4. Complete Discussion and Assignments/Quiz

Demand for Infrastructure 

Slides Links to an external site.

Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals

The UN Millennium Development Goals (2000 to 2015) supported unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest people. Yet, there is still much work to be done.  The Sustainable Development Goals are the follow-up effort to the Millennium Development Goals.

  1. Read the Sustainable Development Goals (listed below).
  2. Choose 1 goal, as a group. Post this goal (and your group members names) so no other groups choose that goal.
  3. Read about the goal in more detail Links to an external site.. 
  4. In a reply to your original post (no more than 100 words per bullet point):
    • List Millennium Development Goals which are connected to your Sustainable Development Goal (i.e. how does this goal pick up where the MDGs left off?).
    • Provide specific details about your goal (i.e. How will the goal be measured? What geographic region will this impact most?)
    • What infrastructures are needed to support achieving this goal. Try to be specific - provide an example region/country and how this infrastructure will support meeting this goal for that area.

     

    Discussion

    Read Carbon Zero -Chapter 1: Cities in the age of climate consequences Links to an external site. and answer why is carbon zero an important goal? Provide at least one suggestion on how we can get their faster based on the reading, class lecture, and your own ideas. Post your suggest on Discussion Carbon Zero ch1.