Urban Design Social Studies Learning Targets
Social Studies, Urban Design
ALT 1 - Suburban Growth/Urban Sprawl
Demonstrates an understanding of the social effects of suburban growth and urban sprawl.
AST 1.1 - Origins and History : Demonstrates an understanding of the origins and history of suburban growth.
AST 1.2 - Impact : Demonstrates an understanding of the urban impacts of suburban growth.
ALT 2 - Automobiles/Social Impact
Demonstrates an understanding of the social effects of prioritizing the automobile for transportation.
AST 2.1 - Suburban Sprawl : Demonstrates an understanding of the role automobile-oriented design on facilitating suburban sprawl.
AST 2.2 - Pedestrian Realm : Demonstrates an understanding of automobile-prioritized design on the pedestrian realm.
AST 2.3 - Segregated Land Use : Demonstrates an understanding of the effects of automobile-oriented design regarding segregated land uses.
AST 2.4 - Traffic Congestion : Demonstrates an understanding of the impact of automobile-prioritized design and traffic congestion.
ALT 3 - Environmental Effects
Demonstrates an understanding of the environmental effects of urban sprawl on air, water, land and animals.
AST 3.1 - Resources : Demonstrates an understanding of the use of resources necessary to support sprawl infrastructure.
AST 3.2 - Surface Streams : Demonstrates an understanding of the impact of impervious surface on surface streams and groundwater infiltration.
AST 3.3 - Sprawl : Demonstrates an understanding of the effects of sprawl in fragmenting local environmental integrity.
ALT 4 - Segregating Land Issues
Demonstrates an understanding of the effects of segregating land uses (residential, work and shopping).
AST 4.1 - Traffic Congestion : Demonstrates an understanding of the interrelationship between segregated land uses and traffic congestion.
AST 4.2 - Resource Consumption : Demonstrates an understanding of the interrelationship between segregated land uses and resource consumption.
AST 4.3 - Community Fragmentation : Demonstrates an understanding of the interrelationship between segregated land uses and community fragmentation.
ALT 5 - Increasing Population
Demonstrates an understanding of the effect of increasing population in urban, suburban and rural lands.
AST 5.2 - Population Growth : Demonstrates an understanding of the interrelationship of population growth and resource use.
AST 5.1 - Urban Region : Demonstrates an understanding of the potential impacts of population growth on the livability of an urban region.
ALT 6 - Smart Growth
Demonstrates an understanding of the principles of regional planning and "smart growth".
AST 6.1 - Planning : Demonstrates an understanding of the purposes of regional land-use planning.
AST 6.2 - Smart Growth : Demonstrates an understanding of the principles of "smart growth".
AST 6.3 - Trade-Offs : Demonstrates an understanding of the trade-offs between increasing sprawl vs. increasing density ("out vs. up").
AST 6.4 - Infrastructure : Demonstrates an understanding of the need to develop environmentally sensitive "green" infrastructure within the urban environment in order to preserve environmental integrity.