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Reality Check Student Work
Up one level- Changing Times: Pacific Northwest Development Alternatives Response to Climate Change
- Climate change is occurring globally because of the way people live and use the planet. Responses to this change are occurring throughout all Earth’s living communities, including the community of human society.
- Puget Sound Urban Centers White Paper
- In the past fifty-seven years the Puget Sound region has experienced a 200% increase in population and added 300,000 people since the 2000 census alone. The increases since 2000 represent adding half of the population of Seattle to the Central Puget Sound region (King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties) in less than 7 years.
- Transit Oriented Development White Paper
- As an estimated 1 million new residents move in the Puget Sound region by 2025, local roadway infrastructure will not accommodate the travel demand if the majority of the population drive in single occupancy vehicles. If new roadways were built to accommodate increased demand, negative environmental impacts would be severe.
- Transit Oriented Development - Overcoming Barriers Through Districts
- A presentation on overcoming barriers through districts.
- Reality Check Guidebook Presentation
- Density as Energy Consumption's Pay-Off Pitch
- Urban population density, once planned out of cities for the purpose of improving public health, is now a viable solution to rising energy concerns.
- Urban Density and Energy Consumption
- Conservation through compactness?