Question:
1- Transportation planning: induced demand. Think about traffic movement after some freeway constructions.
2- Growth management: need, difficulty, and segregation issues. Home rules and local governance, and local political and cultural characteristics.
3- Defense of privileges: I am in let us use zoning as a tool. Segregation, and NYMBY issues
4- Structural Unemployment and why important for local economic development: local, regional and global phenomena
5- Community development and cost and benefits of such development: Think carefully about local development projects (environment, social, cultural, economic, etc.)
6- Why is regional planning difficult? (Again, local governance issues, federal funding based on local population)
7- Energy and Environmental Planning issues in America. How national political agenda dictate wider planning issues in these areas.
8- Metropolitan area planning and local area planning in America.