Career Blog: City Planner

City planners are the the people or ones who design the cities' framework. In addition, city planners figure out the location of each road, building, and other frameworks that will create an efficient city for everyone in the city. Furthermore, the city planners consider many things when making their decisions such as how close each structure are to the resources for water, heavy streets, laws for zoning, and the quality of air. Not to mention, the city planners are essential for the development of efficient cities and communities, keeping up with the population increasing on a daily basis, keeping with the changes in climate on a daily basis, and the amount of waste produced by people on a daily basis. Above all, they can propose laws for zoning. Moreover, city planners also have a say or voice on issues regarding the community, means of transportation, and the environment around the city or neighborhood. The average annual salary of a city planner is approximately $66,000.

If one wants to be a city planner, he or she should have at least a bachelors degree (masters degree is definitely recommended) in areas regarding the design of urban areas, human geography, and regional or environmental planning. Furthermore, that person should also have sufficient knowledge regarding issues of the environment of the earth. Knowledge in the field of economics is also a plus. Moreover, it is best for that person have the a deep and strong foundation in one single area of study.

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Art Bell who is the author of the "The Coming Global Superstorm" believes that a human culture,sophistication, or development might have appeared long before the early occurrences of published or documented history. Furthermore, Bell introduces and discusses about numerous archaic and age old structures such as the Sphinx, the capability of contemporary ancestors of humans to talk, maritime exploration, and weapons such as spears. Moreover, Bell stated that the Sphinx was composed of sandstone and endured a lot of deterioration and decay because of rainfall over time. In addition, these tools or supplies and environmental settings have not exist in age old Egypt, which implies the fact that the Sphinx was developed at a place other than Egypt in preceding or prior time frame. Not to mention, previous human beings had nerve frameworks like those frameworks of current or contemporary human beings in circumstances of expression, so it is definitely probable that they were indeed capable of making expressions or speech, which gives the message that a human civilization may have already developed. Above all, equipment such as boats that were developed before the documented history of human beings have been rather complicated. In the same way, our predecessors recognized which trees to use, and noticed that the wood at the tree's bottom weighted the most, making the spears capable of traveling farther. Nevertheless, Art Bell noted that in consideration of the proof or information, it is definitely extremely probable that a society indeed developed before our own society had developed. Due to harsh weather conditions, this civilization or society might have collapsed. The warrants for my evidence is that while taking the word history course during my sophomore year, I learned a lot about how the human civilization existed and about how it was created. 

Play it Green: The Big Switch

I used the site "http://www.planitgreenlive.com" in which I was able to generate a city through a simulation. Furthermore, my goal was to plan out the city with success in issues regarding environmental and money. Moreover, in order to meet my goal, I needed to double check that the city I generated had roads, factories, residential areas for people to live (houses), and efficient energy resources. Not to mention, I hope to make sure that my city did not interfere with the essential wildlife. None of my the energy producing resources in my city had interfered with wildlife. In addition, I planted many parks, trees, and bushes to make the city eco-friendly. I had wind farms and coal power plants, 3 factories, and numerous houses and parks. Fortunately, I was able to create an city that could was environmentally and economically successful due to the fact that the wildlife around my city was not harmed in any way.

The Coming Global Superstorm Lit Circle Ch. 3-4

Vocab Master (Ch. 3-4)

1. meteorologist (pg.33)- an expert in or student of meteorology; a weather forecaster.

2. climatologist (pg.33)- someone who studies long-term weather trends or climatology

3. typhoon (pg.29)- a tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans.

4. fiefdoms (pg.37)- anything, as an organization or real estate, owned or controlled by one dominant person or group.

5. larynx (pg.42)- the hollow muscular organ forming an air passage to the lungs and holding the vocal cords in humans and other mammals; the voice box.

6. paleontologist (pg.44)- a scientist who studies fossils

7. javelins (pg.44)- a light spear thrown in a competitive sport or as a weapon.

8. trajectories (pg.45)- the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces.

9. Australopithecus (pg.45)- a fossil bipedal primate with both apelike and human characteristics, found in Pliocene and lower Pleistocene deposits ( circa 4 million to 1 million years old) in Africa.

10. hominids (pg.45)- a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors.