This week you have been reading in your text about “Growth Management: Smart Growth, Sustainable Development, and Planning for Catastrophe.” For this assignment, you will continue to focus on the location you chose for your Week 5 Assignment. But now you are going to dive deeper into the community, its needs, and the social justice issues prevalent there, all of which are important in growth, sustainability, and planning for the future.
Step 1: Revisit the location you focused on in your Week 5 PESTEL analysis.
Step 2: Use data from a minimum of 3 of the following resources to demonstrate an understanding of community growth, societal issues, and urban planning. Use the following sites to research the location:
CensusLinks to an external site.
- The United States Census Bureau provides demographics, socio-economic data, maps, environmental, and political data concerning communities across the United States. Such data can help determine where to build everything from schools to supermarkets, and from homes to hospitals. It helps the government decide how to distribute funds and assistance to states and localities.
Census Quick FactsLinks to an external site.
- QuickFacts provides statistics, demographics, socio-economic data, maps, and environmental data for all states and counties and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.
Data.govLinks to an external site.
- On this site you will find data on specific community populations including important social justice issues.
SEDACLinks to an external site.
- “SEDAC, the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, is one of the Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration” (SEDAC, 2023). SEDAC provides socioeconomic data with maps and themes to support.
Textbook
- Contemporary Urban Planning, chapters 7, 10-15
- Refer to Chapter 7 when considering the social justice issue you will choose.
Step 3: Complete the table in the assignment template Download assignment templateprovided.
Step 4: Include references to the three resources you chose above as well as any outside resources you used to research your location.
Step 5: Upload your completed Word document to Canvas.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
- Assess the diverse nature of urban populations and the social justice issues many of these populations face.