1. A final analysis on your system. (1 page)
2. Research some proposed solutions to the system (2-3) and explain them. (2-3 pages)
3. Propose a specific solution for your system that will either make lessen the carbon emissions for your system or build human resilience in the face of climate change within that system. (2-3 pages)
4. Either a letter or a short written speech (public comment). (1 page)
1. Final analysis: You began this on other term project assignments. Expand on that initial analysis. Include:
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o a brief history of how we got here. You already did this on the previous assignment – you can take from there and condense. An example: If you are doing public transportation infrastructure, research how California became so dependent on freeways and why it didn’t invest in public transportation infrastructure.
o why this system needs to change in light of what we’ve been talking about regarding climate change. An example: if you are doing urban design, you may want to talk about increases in heat waves and the need for us to build our cities with climate resilience in mind. Be specific here.
2. Research solutions that have already been proposed or discussed. Ideally you will have 2-3. You will describe these and then analyze how effective they may be. Here’s an example from San Francisco: you are examining urban infrastructure in coastal areas and you are looking at ways to combat sea level rise. San Francisco Recreation and Parks has a proposal for a park it’s building in India Basin that has sea level resiliency in its designLinks to an external site.. I am not analyzing this design, but maybe it doesn’t take into account increasing rain events (I don’t know – you would think about this). You should have about 2 paragraphs per solution.
3. Your proposed solutions: Propose your own solutions. Choose the scale you want to work at. For example, if you want to increase sustainable transportation and choose biking as your mode of transportation, you may want to design for making our bike infrastructure better. Maybe you look at Dutch biking infrastructure for guidance. Or maybe you focus on increasing access to E-bikes. Or maybe you focus on how we can move people and their bikes on a regional scale – for example, how could we change public transit to allow people to bring their bikes and solve that “last mile problem”. You can think about this on a small scale or on a larger scale (for example, on the scale of a city or a state). It’s up to you. You may also take one of the solutions you described above and improve or expand on it. This part of your final project should be about 2-3 pages. For this you can say what you really want to see – it doesn’t just have to be what you think is possible right now.