Career Blog: City Planner

career blog: city planner or surveyor (land use) or climate change analyst (CGSS)

An urban planner or city planner is a professional who works in the field of urban planning/city planning for the purpose of optimizing the effectiveness of a community's land use and infrastructure. They formulate plans for the development and management of urban and suburban areas, typically analyzing land use compatibility as well as economic, environmental and social trends. In developing their plan for a community (whether commercial, residential, agricultural, natural or recreational), urban planners must also consider a wide array of issues such as sustainability, air pollution, traffic congestion, crime, land values, legislation and zoning codes. The typical full-time city planner reported an annual salary within a range of $43,000 to $80,000.

Toulmin Paragraph: Global Superstorm Chapter 3-4

As Earth's historical story is revealed, Earth's inhabitants had to go through many unusual temperature changes. Without a doubt, Earth can be a beautiful mystery when it comes to weather and temperatures. As stated in the book, The Coming Global Superstorm, when thunderstorms were becoming visible just above the horizon, most of the tourists were unaware of how unusual this was, but the local-the guards and attendants regarded the sight as something extremely strange. In addition, the weather in the Northern Hemisphere was far worse. However, not only was the Northern Hemisphere affected, but many other countries were affected by this weather change as well. The unusual weather created a war zone. The entire world was involved due to this weather catastrophe. Therefore, we can conclude that Earth's inhabitants had to go though unusual weather changes.

Cookie Mining

To extract the ores in a neat manner

To extract ores by drilling holes

To extract the ores as fast as possible

Today, we did a lab where we tested and examined different kinds of mining. In this case, the cookie acted as a land form, while the chocolate chips acted as the ores/minerals. Now, as you can see in the first cookie mined, my cookie wasn't broken all over the place. Instead, my cookie had its chocolate chips extracted in a orderly fashion in order to keep the cookie together. This type of mining is called strip mining. In this kind of mining the damage done isn't that bad so repairing the land form can be an option. However, as you can see in the last cookie, the "ores" were extracted in a very messy and rapid way that caused the cookie to fall apart. This kind of mining is called shaft mining. Now unlike strip mining, you cannot repair the damage done to the land form. In my second cookie, you can see that although it was not as in bad condition as the third cookie it still wasn't as good as the first cookie. This is because for this cookie, we had to drill a big hole in order to extract the ores hidden within the cookie. Now, I think we can all tell that the first cookie turned out the best, while the third cookie was pretty much destroyed.

Last Mountain Legislation

Write a law about strip mining specifically talking about the public commons.

A Resolution to Reduce Strip Mining 

WHEREAS, strap mining does more damage to the environment than strip mining; and

WHEREAS, mining is very vital to many industries in today's society; and

WHEREAS, strip mining can cause damage and destroy land forms; and

WHEREAS, restoration of every damaged land form would be deplete our economy; and

WHEREAS,  damage or destruction done to land forms by strip mining can be repaired; and

WHEREAS, mining can cause disruptions around citizens; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, by the Congress here assembled that we implement less mining and mine only when resources are low

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that industrial companies must follow a limit on strip mining or pay a fine of $5000

I believe that strip mining should be restricted more because of the damage it does to the environment. However, I highly suggest strip mining over strap mining because strip mining does less damage. Even though strip mining do cause damage and destroy land forms, the damage done can be repaired. Unlike strap mining, damage done is permanent. I understand how mining is very important for many industries today. However, I would like to emphasize our earth should not be taken for granted. Therefore, we should reduce strap mining and stick to strip mining instead. Despite my encouragement towards strip mining, I hope that there is not going to be twice as much mining as before just because we can repair the damage. I mean if we were to repair the damages done, then that would cost far more money to repair the damages than extract resources. In addition, mining is not welcome around citizens. I highly doubt that they like getting their houses mined just because there are valuable resources underneath it. Thus, I highly suggest that we implement less mining and only mine when resources are low. Also, we should respect our citizens' rights and disturb them as little as possible with our mining issues.

Soil erosion is just important as global warming and emerging diseases because these all affect the Earth and its inhabitants. Soil erosion may damage the Earth's land and land forms causing deformations of land forms. In addition, soil erosion can highly affect the job of farmers. The soil used by farmers may be ruined and so there will less food produced, Thus, leading to the depletion of Earth's resources. Therefore, soil erosion is just as harmful as global warming and emerging diseases and may possibly be even more fatal.

Plan It Green City

Now, as you can probably tell I spent quite some time to create and design my city, Little Royal Valley. I purposely built my city this way for the sole purpose of making it laid out nicely in an organized manner. I wasn't just thinking about the economical value of my city, but I was also thinking about the environmental beauty as well. As you can see in the picture of my city above, I have about 2500 environmental points, meaning that my environment is kept in a well manner. However, note that my city has various types of trees and plants in order to sustain this environment. Now, I wasn't just being eco-friendly, but I was also being successful economically too. As you can see, I have various houses and industrial buildings in my city. And yes, these buildings were harmful to my environment; however, I balanced out the harmful impact of these buildings by planting various trees and plants. Thus, I simply placed a tree near every corner of a building or had a line of trees along the side of the building to reduce the damage done to the environment.  Overtime, I started having more plants spread out and didn't build as much, which soon transformed my city to what it is now. And did you notice how I purposely separated my houses from my industrial buildings? Well, I  did that to make my city look more well organized. Now even though this strategic way of placing my buildings didn't effect my environment in the game, in reality, the placement of my buildings wouldn't easily influence my citizens from the air pollution my industrial buildings are doing. Therefore, even though the environment is doing well, we also can't slack off on the well-being of our citizens.

Global Superstorm: Time Master Chapter 3-4

Quickwrite Quiz

What are the 3 types of subsurface coal mining?
Describe the four steps of the 1st one described in the video.

The 3 types of subsurface mining include [1] conventional board and pillar mining, [2] blasting gallery technology, and [3] long wall mining. According to the "How Is Coal Mined?" video, conventional mining has four steps: 1) drilling, 2) blasting, 3) lifting, and 4) loading. In the first step, drilling, the workers drill into the wall in order to place an explosive within the wall. In the second step, blasting, after the workers place the explosive in the wall, they lock the explosive in place by burying it in dirt. Then, they stand back for the "show". Once blasting has taken place, the third step is initiated, lifting. This is where the workers shovel up the coal and fill them up into baskets. As soon as lifting has been completed, the fourth step, loading, takes place. Here, the workers take the baskets and load the coal collected onto a rail track. Once this final step is completed, stage 1 is finally over.

Land Career: Farmer

Land Career- pick from mining engineer, pedologist, and farmer. Describe a day in the life of, how does each work with land resources, salary range, training, picture and reference

 

A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmed land or might work as a laborer on land owned by others, but in advanced economies, a farmer is usually a farm owner, while employees of the farm are known as farm workers, or farmhands. Traditionally, many farmers are born into family farming businesses. Their experience is gained through observation and hands-on experience from the time they're children. However, the modernization of the farming industry has made it more necessary for farmers and ranchers to receive formal education and training as well.  In 2004, the most recent year for which comparable data exist, the average farm household had an annual net income of $81,480, while the average U.S. household netted $60,528.