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Page 1: Urban Planning / Transportation Engineering Project

Urban Planning / Transportation Engineering

Project

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Objective

• Introduce students to the TDL Career Cluster: Transportation Systems/Infrastructure Planning, Management, and Regulation – Urban Planning / Transportation Engineering

(Civil Engineering)

• Introduce Students to Urban Planning Concepts

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What is Urban Planning?

• Urban Planners develop comprehensive plans and programs for use of land and physical facilities of local jurisdictions, such as towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.

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City Zones

• What are City Zones?– Zones regulate land use in various parts of

counties and cities. – “Zoning” is the practice of designating

what a specific section of land can be used for within a given geographical area.

• mapped zones separate one set of land uses from another

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WHY USE ZONING?

• Primary purpose of zoning is to segregate different uses of land that are incompatible with each other.– Zoning is used to prevent new

developments from harming existing residents or businesses.

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EXAMPLE

• Lets say you live in a low density housing area (suburb) of Omaha, and a new power company wanted to buy some of the houses in your neighborhood, destroy them, and put up a nuclear power plant in your back yard, would this harm your way of living?

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ANSWER

• By constructing a new nuclear power plant…– Housing values would go down.– Pollution (although within the required legal

limits) would increase.– Higher traffic in and out of plant may cause traffic

safety issues.– Noise levels would go up…if the plant ran 24/7, it

would be difficult for families living in the area.

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City Zones

• Residential Zone (Green)– The areas in a city where people live. – Housing developments, Apartments and Condos.

• Purpose of a Residential Zone– To reserve appropriate located areas for families living

in a broad range of dwellings.– To ensure adequate light, air, privacy, and open space– To minimize traffic congestion and to avoid the

overloading of public services.

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City Zones

• Commercial Zone (Blue)– Commerce deals with the exchange of goods

and services from producer to final consumer.– Example: Wal-Mart, Kum and Go, and

Wendy’s

• Purpose of Commercial Zones: – To provide areas for the development and

operation of retail and service businesses in support of community needs.

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City Zones• Industrial Zone (Yellow)

– Industry is the segment of economy concerned with production of goods

– The purpose of Industrial zones is to provide a location for Manufacturing plants.

– Industrial Zones provide cities with large employers.

EXAMPLE: Kellogg’s Plant, Omaha

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City Zones• Utilities :

– Refer to the set of services (infrastructure) provided by organizations that are consumed by the public: gas, water, electricity, and sewerage.

– These organizations are usually owned or regulated by the government

• Power Plants• Supplying Power to the city.• OPPD: Omaha Public Power District

• Water Treatment and Gas• Supplying water and gas to the city• MUD: Metropolitan Utilities District

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Transportation Engineering

• Be mindful of how well you provide areas for people to move around and through your city.

• Provide areas for road expansion.– You must be able to grow your highway

and street system as your population grows.

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How Would You Layout Your City?

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Project

• Using the SIM City software, you will develop your own city.

• You will be graded on 3 things– How fast you grow your city (100 points)– How well you take stats on your city (200

points)– How well you put together your

presentation of your city (200 points)

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What You Will Be Graded On

• 1st, City Growth: 100 points– Try to grow your city by 500 people a

year.

– You will start you city in the year 1900 and end in the year 1925

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Where Would You Start?

Start by a river or a body of water

Using water ways was a major form of transportation in the early 1900’s and today is the cheapest means of transporting goods.

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Topography• Be mindful of the surface

features of a given area

• Is it harder to build on bluffs or hills

• Build on plains or flat areas.

• Example: Council Bluffs Vs. Omaha

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When Using the SIM software• Start on a flat surface near water.

– Bluffs are hard to build on and will only cause you to run out of space.

• Start with a power plant– Do not put residential around the power plant – Power Plants should be on the outskirts of the city.

• One square equals 6 to 8 city blocks. – Do not build areas wider than 6 by 6

• Do not spread your city out too much!• Remember, you do not construct the buildings, you just zone

the land for building.

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Start with these settings:

• Easy

• $20,000

• 1900

• Do Not modify the land area.

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What You Will Be Graded On• 2nd, Statistics: 200 points

– Everyone will be required to take stats over how well you city is growing.

– To take stats, you will use the excel spreadsheet given to

you.

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When Do I Take Stats?• You will take your stats every December • You will take stats every 5 years in December

– December 1905, December 1910, December 1915…

• Make sure to pay attention, points will be taken away if you

take stats at the wrong time.

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Taking Stats

• Graph Button– Press the Graph

Button to take stats for the first 13 rows on your stat sheet. (reddish orange area)

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Taking Stats

• Budget Window– Press the green

money symbol to take stats for the last 12 rows on your stat sheet. (light blue area)

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What You Will Be Graded On

• 3rd, Presentation: 200 points– Everyone will be required to make a presentation

using the MS PowerPoint Template given.– You must have pictures included in your

presentation.– Presentations must be completed to earn

maximum points– Presentations will be given to the class after cities

are completed and all stats are taken.

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Good Luck