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Urbanization Case Studies:
- U.S.: The Failure of Suburbia (James Kunstler)
- U.S.: Left Behind America (PBS Frontline)
- U.S.: Chicago's Geography Advantage (City Beautiful)
- U.S.: Why Did We Build High Rise Public Housing (City Beautiful)
- U.S.: The Abandoned Skyscrapers of Detroit (The Telegraph)
- U.S.: Millions of Americans live in Food Deserts (ABC News)
- U.S.: No Easy Answers - Food Deserts in Washington, D.C. (NPR)
- U.S.: The Rise and Fall of the American Shopping Mall (PBSNewsHour)
- U.S.: McMansions : The Houses that People Love to Hate (Washington Post)
- U.S. Pros/Cons of Gentrification (NowThisWorld)
- U.S. TEDTalk: What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them? (issue of fair access to housing for urban poor--told from the perspective/voice of urban poor)
- Smart Cities: Solving Urban Problems Using Technology
- South Korea: Songdo, Aerotropolis, the Future Smart City
- India's Smart City Plan & What it Means for Indians (Vox)
- China's Clone Cities: Paris, London, Jackson Hole (ABC News)
- China: China's Empty Cities (SBS Dateline)
- China: Inside Hong Kong's Cage Homes (Vox)
- Brazil: Inside Rio's Fevalas (Vox)
- Lagos: Africa's Fastest Growing Megacity (challenges & plans)
- Lagos: Africa's Model Mega City (this video only shows the positives of the planned future--not current challenges the city faces)
- Spain: Superblocks: How Barcelona is Taking City Streets Back (Vox)
- Bangladesh: The World's Fastest Growing Megacity: Dakha (The Daily Conversation)
Other Useful Videos:
- What is a city? (The Atlantic)
- Why Cities are Where They Are (Wendover)
- Primary Models of Urban Growth
- Urban Planning Models (U.S. focus)
- Latin American City Model
- TEDEd: Urbanization and the Future of Cities
- How to Make an Attractive City (School of Life)
- TEDTalk: Peter Calthorpe: 7 Principles for for Building Better Cities (addresses urban sprawl & sustainable city planning)
- TEDTalk: James Kunstler: "How bad architecture wrecked cities"
- Why Cities Should Plant More Trees (Vox)
- Where is the Worst Traffic in the World?(NowThisWorld)
- How to Fix Traffic Forever (Wendover)
Websites
Misc. news Articles, etc.
- Tomorrow's Cities: Singapore's Plans for a Smart Nation(BBC, April 2017)
- Debating India's Smart City Vision (Geographical, August 2019)
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