{"id":2682,"date":"2014-07-28T15:25:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T19:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outdooredguys.wordpress.com\/?page_id=2682"},"modified":"2018-01-02T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:39:51","slug":"urban-planning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/about-2\/our-centres\/laurel-creek\/urban-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 8 Urban Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"null\" dir=\"ltr\" border=\"1\" width=\"290\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" height=\"53\">\n<p>Given a map on which to plan a new community for 100 000 people, students are challenged to allocate space for housing, industry, commerce, farming, and the environment. Different models of land use are presented, and students need to decide which plans reflect their vision of a successful community.<\/p>\n<p>Notes for teachers:The program will give students the guidelines needed to plan their communities, however, the actual urban planning part will take place back at school. Students will have maps divided into one hundred squares. Students will need to allocate each of those squares to a particular land-use. The final product will\u00a0be a map of a city colour coordinated for different uses.\u00a0Teachers\u00a0will need to\u00a0allocate a few class periods for these activities.<a href=\"https:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/sprawl2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2683 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/sprawl2.jpg\" alt=\"sprawl2\" width=\"604\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given a map on which to plan a new community for 100 000 people, students are challenged to allocate space for housing, industry, commerce, farming, and the environment. Different models of land use are presented, and students need to decide which plans reflect their vision of a successful community. Notes for teachers:The program will give [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" role=\"complementary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/about-2\/our-centres\/laurel-creek\/urban-planning\/\"><strong>Read more about<\/strong> <cite>Grade 8 Urban Planning<\/cite> &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1608,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-grade-8","category-laurel-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2682\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}