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Introduction

This week we are back to writing. You are going to draw on some ideas from cities in LAC to make hypothetical suggestions to your city’s urban design team.

As usual, you are divided into your small groups to make discussion easier. You are required to make at least three written posts this week. First, respond to the Question Prompt. Second, respond to at least two classmates.

Question Prompts

First, briefly describe your hometown (you can choose the town where you were born or the one where you live now). Tell us the approximate population size, the primary industries, and one or two of your favorite features about the town’s design right now.

Now draw on two examples from Latin American cities – at least one needs to be from this week’s material, but for the other you can do separate research. For each example, tell us why this particular urban design or initiative was undertaken in this Latin American city – in so doing, bring in a geographical concept such as scale, place, globalization, or interconnection and reference course material. Then tell us why you would like to see this done in your hometown.

6 months ago

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