Problem
You have just been hired by the town/city nearest to campus as a community planner. Your job is to design a sustainable community that will be built on a large section of the city that was leveled in a massive urban renewal project. This new planned community will have housing, places to eat and shop, light industry, a school, recreation center, and park. This will be a complete neighborhood. Know that all of the infrastructure will also be replaced; this means utilities (electricity, water, sewage) and roads.
Your job is to develop a plan (this could be a PowerPoint presentation, a video or some other medium. Be creative!) for this sustainable community addressing the technologies you learned about in the past two modules. For each technology you must:
a) State the technology. Use at least 6 technologies from these resources. Only select resources that are applicable to Florida.
b) Determine why the technology is appropriate to use in your town/city. Again, only select resources that are applicable to Florida. For example, geothermal energy is NOT an applicable choice in Florida. There are no magma pockets. Be sure to provide evidence to explain your conclusion and reference data (like maps of solar and wind resources) to support your position.
c) Explain how the chosen technologies will be used to achieve a sustainable community.
d) Describe the socioeconomic (e.g., costs/benefits, health effects) implications of the technology.