Session Two: Principles, Values, and the Future of Cities February 3rd Review What makes a good city Thomas Affordable housing Diverse forms of travel Actively democratic Environmental accountability Mariegail Equitable distribution of services and goods like healthcare and housing Sustainability Walkability Everyone’s basic needs are met Tammy Accessible library system Accessible public transit Affordable housing… Continue reading Session 2
Category: Urban Studies
Session 1
January 27th Session One: Acknowledgement of Ohlone Territory Introduction to the Course / Current and Future Concerns, Challenges, and Hopes for Urban Futures Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ055ilIiN4&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=PBSNewsHour Part One: Introductions, review syllabus, grading, and Zoom policies. Cities are planned by urban planners city government state government national government developers – non-profit/ for profit social movements… Continue reading Session 1
USP 514 Term Paper
USP 514 – Sustainable Development Term Paper Summarize what you learned from each and every session in this course. You are required to refer to each session separately and individually with the name of the session on top of each part of your answer. Session 1 “Introduction” There was a lot of metacommentary in… Continue reading USP 514 Term Paper
USP 515 Term Paper
USP 515 – Environmental Justice Term Paper Summarize what you learned from each and every session in this course. You are required to refer to each session separately and individually with the name of the session on top of each part of your answer. Session 1 “First Peoples and Traditional Territory Introductions” We started… Continue reading USP 515 Term Paper
Data: Antivaxxer Prevalence Correlates With Covid Incidence
CJ Trowbridge USP 493 Data Analysis 2020-12-01 SPSS Final Project Outline Introduction – what hypothesis you will test and why you expect your independent variable or variables will affect your dependent variable In the recent past, it was legal for California parents to refuse to vaccinate their children in on the basis of various superstitions.… Continue reading Data: Antivaxxer Prevalence Correlates With Covid Incidence
USP 514 Session 15 Notes
November 18th Session Fifteen: The Covid 19 Pandemic REQUIRED READING FOR SESSION FIFTEEN (click on Session 14 on left side to access reading) The Fullest Look Yet at Racial Inequalty of Covid 19 –https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html How Covid 19 is laying bare inequality in Europe Black New Deal Community Ready Corps and The Anti Police-Terror Project convened a wide… Continue reading USP 514 Session 15 Notes
USP 515 Session 13 Notes
November 16th and 18th Session Thirteen: Addressing Environmental Injustices/Cost Benefit Analysis/Precautionary Principle ASSIGNED READING FOR SESSION THIRTEEN (click on session 13 on left to access reading) Pricing the Priceless (this is a legal article so you may have to review it several times Cost-benefit analysis is a deeply flawed method that repeatedly leads to biased and… Continue reading USP 515 Session 13 Notes
USP 514 Session 14 Notes
November 16th Session Fourteen: Green New Deal REQUIRED READING FOR SESSION FOURTEEN Blueprint for Europe’s Just Transition – https://report.gndforeurope.com/ Austerity is not a solution to the climate collapse. Progress is expensive. You can’t get progress with austerity. Economic inequality is another major problem facing civilization. Democracies are collapsing around the world as a result of the unaddressed economic… Continue reading USP 514 Session 14 Notes
USP 515 Session 12 Notes
November 9th Session Twelve: Civil Rights Part One of this session will focus on how voting rights restoration schemes deny the right to vote to those who cannot afford to pay legal debt. Part Two will focus on Prison Abolition. ASSIGNED READING FOR SESSION TWELVE Part One: Voting Rights/Disenfranchisement Can’t Pay/Can’t Vote Poll taxes, or… Continue reading USP 515 Session 12 Notes
USP 514 Session 13 Notes
November 9th Session Thirteen: Cost Benefit Analysis and Precautionary Principle REQUIRED READING FOR SESSION THIRTEEN (click on Session 13 on left side to access reading) Pricing the Priceless (this is a legal article so you may have to review it several times Cost-benefit analysis is a deeply flawed method that repeatedly leads to biased and misleading… Continue reading USP 514 Session 13 Notes