Hi all, Julie here.

Doug has had a family emergency and will possibly be absent from tomorrow’s class. He’ll make every effort to be there.

In case he can’t make it, I will come to hear your detailed progress reports and give feedback. So please be prepared to present on your project, including any visual elements you are planning to incorporate.

You should also do the reading for class, Doug says to concentrate on Chaps 6, 7 and 9 in Cohen.

I’ll post any updates I get from Doug. See you all tomorrow.

Greetings on this lovely Sunday. For Tuesady’s class, a reminder that were are covering the Paris climate agreement, the U.N.’s latest climate change report, and the U.S. climate assessment. Please read the following three items:

Pres. Trump’s statement withdrawing from the Paris Accords

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-trump-paris-climate-accord/

Impacts of U.S. withdrawal from the climate accords

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2018/06/01/one-year-since-trumps-withdrawal-from-the-paris-climate-agreement/

Trump’s indifference to evidence

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rejecting-climate-report-trump-makes-clear-his-indifference-evidence

Happy Sunday. Apologies for the delay in getting this to you.

On Tuesday, Julie will be leading the class on the art of presentation and your projects

• Read carefully :

1. One New York to p.15
2. the “Transportation” and “Climate Change” from PlaNYC which you were to at least scan for last week.
3. Vision 3 and 4 of One NYC. We’ll look at these in detail.

• Read latest Muzzio contribution: “Is This the End of Recycling”, A. Semuels, The Atlantic, 3/5/19. www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china-has-stopped-accepting-our-trash/584131/

• Futures of New York City projects: Report on the topics preliminarily chosen by your at-this-point group members. Why did your group choose this topic? What does it have to do with sustainability/resiliency in New York City? How are you allocating group member’s responsibilities? Please read the website posting for the initial group project proposal.  One member from each group should be chosen to report on the project.

• LWT; Muzzio will report on the long-delayed “Climate Change’s Giant Impact on Economy”

• Tentatively, we’ll view City of Rising Waters.

Happy snow day! Please see the following from Doug:

Tomorrow, we’ll do the following. Please do the readings to prepare.

Class agenda 3/5:

• Last Week Today
• Review revised syllabus
• Review “Futures of New York” workplan/schedule.  Each student must have an idea about the project they would like to pursue (2-3 sentences in writing).  We’ll form preliminary groups.
• View last year’s four Macaulay projects. As a stimulus to your thinking about content and how to present it. We’ll review in class. Julie will visit on March 12 to talk to you about rules of presentation.
  • 2018 conference presentations
    • Subway Flooding Final Presentation
    • Tram Transportation Final Presentation
    • Congestion Pricing Final Presentation
    • Green Roofing Final Presentation
• Readings
  • Students should:  scan “One NYC” (all 300+ pages) to get a sense of the elements of the city’s sustainability/resiliency efforts
  • Read more thoroughly: Vision 3, goals 1&2; Vision 4, goals 3&4 to give a more detailed look at some of the proposals
  • read PlaNYC: A Stronger and More Resilient New York – Transportation (pp. 174-188) & Climate Change (pp 20-36) for more detailed views in 2 specific areas
• Class viewing “City of Rising Waters”: 26:12 to 30:23; 32:40-35:40 and 17:25-22:16   (popcorn will be provided)

Next Week: Initial group “Futures of New York” project proposal

For tomorrow, we’ll open our second “Last Week Today” starring Alon and Olha.  (Please post readings/viewings. )

For Tuesday, Kyle Arnold and Isaac Weinstock will open the class with our first “Last Week Today.”  Remember, this not meant to high pressure event.  Simply, post your the article/video by Sunday using the category “LWT presentations”. The rest of the class will read/view it for Tuesday.

LWT is a 5-7 minute presentation of an article/video that in some way addresses the issues of climate change, sustainability and/or resiliency, globally or locally.  You must tell us source, author(s), date of publication and most importantly, it’s relevance to the class and provide a brief summary of the article’s argument. The presentation will be followed by a brief question-answer with the class.

Muzzio will be the third LWT presenter of “Climate Change’s Giant Impact on the Economy” which you’ve already been assigned.

Structuring Questions for discussion of Ryerson reading:

1. What is Ryerson’s central thesis?
2. What are the dimensions/areas of concern with overpopulation?
3. What are some of Ryerson’s solutions?

Hi all,

Please see the following class updates from Doug. It is important, so READ CAREFULLY and in full.

Announcement

The IT specialist came a third time, failed to solve problem and said that the computer needed overhaul/replacement. I’m to call midweek to find out what the story is. Stay tuned.

To remedy the missed viewing and, possibly, not everyone receiving Mannahatta:

1. The following written assignment, to be submitted in hard copy on Feb 19.
2. You must be prepared to answer the three questions (part of Structuring Questions for Class 2) related to the documentary for an in-class discussion.
3. A revised Class 3.

Assignment

You are to view An Inconvenient Truth in its entirety to get a complete picture (or from 27:44 if you are sure you recall what occurred up to then).

You are to list 5 “takeaways” from the documentary. Each takeaway should be 1 sentence long and be followed by sentence or two which explains why. Takeaways are things that stick in your mind, that you take away from the viewing/reading with you e.g. “Wow. That’s important.” (5 points, hard copy due Feb 19).

Reading for Revised Class

Lesson Plan 3 (tentative)

• Delay reading of Mannahatta and viewing the Sanderson TED talk
• Discussion of Inconvenient Truth/discussion of assignment
• From Readings Class 2:
  • Geographical/political history of NYC
  • 100 largest US cities
• Readings from Class 3:
  • Ryerson/Structuring questions
  • Current population/Structuring questions
  • Population projections/Structuring questions
• Sources and Ideas for Future City conference (see below)

NYC Gallery Post due Fri, Feb 15

Please remember to post your NYC Gallery picture by 5pm Friday, Feb 15 and comment on a classmates’ photo by Sunday, Feb 17. Be sure to categorize your post. Get in touch with Julie if you need any help posting your pic.

Blog Post (due March 3)

Sources and Ideas for Future City Conference Project

On Tues, March 5, we will open the class with a discussion of group projects. Each student must submit a topic for such a project to the blog, laying out a reasonable policy approach to an issue of sustainability/resiliency that impacts NYC. 100 word maximum, post by 6pm Sun, March 3. Use the category “Project ideas”. You should look over your classmates’ proposals before we meet on Tuesday and think about what interests you. We will then try to coalesce into groups.

Four possible sources of ideas (not limited to these):

1. The City Climate Leadership Awards given to 10 cities in 2013. Choose one city and its approach to sustainability and apply it to New York.
   http://www.zdnet.com/article/top-10-cities-leading-in-urban-sustainability/
2. On June 11, 2013, the City released “A Stronger, More Resilient New York”, a comprehensive plan that contains actionable recommendations both for rebuilding the communities impacted by Sandy and increasing the resilience of infrastructure and buildings citywide.
   1. Some examples:
      1. https://onenyc.cityofnewyork.us/goals/zero-waste/
      2. https://onenyc.cityofnewyork.us/goals/80×50/
      3. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/sustainability/codes/green-buildings.page
3. The Museum of The City Of New York in its “Data Nook” lists strategies for “Getting Around.”
   • Develop a single fare system for all modes of transit e.g Tokyo, Hong Kong, Helsinki
   • Build bicycle highways
   • Develop new ways to get freight into the city
   • Improve transit access across the Hudson
   • Capture real estate value around transit stations e.g. Hong Kong, Hudson Yards
   • Adapt self-driving vehicles for city travel
   • Connect Staten island to the transit network
   • Ban cars in central areas
4. Eric Klinenberg, “Adaptation,” Class 2.