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A City Without Cars? — The Geography of Access

A City Without Cars? — The Geography of Access Do Geography Lab · Cities and Transportation A City Without Cars? The Geography of Access The question is not whether cars vanish. It is how a city divides scarce space so people can reach work, school, shops, friends, and one another. Your assignment Rebuild access, not merely a road. Allocate one corridor, reshape the land around it, survive a local stress test, and discover why the same design behaves differently in three cities. 1. Read the city 2. Divide the street 3. Change the city 4. Stress test 5. Compare 6. Explain Transportation produces urban form A road does more than carry traffic. It changes land values, parking demand, building setbacks, trip distances, safety, and which destinations remain reachable without owning a vehicle. What this model can and cannot do The maps use real u...

The Container’s Journey — Global Supply Chain Lab

The Container’s Journey — Global Supply Chain Lab Do Geography Lab · Globalization The Container’s Journey A product does not arrive from “overseas.” It travels through particular mines, farms, factories, ports, canals, rail yards, warehouses, labor systems, and narrow places where the whole chain can bend. Your assignment Move one product through a restless world. Build a route, expose its vulnerabilities, absorb a disruption, and decide which kind of resilience is worth paying for. 1. Choose cargo 2. Build the route 3. Break the chain 4. Buy resilience 5. Explain Globalization has an address The “global economy” is not a mist floating above the Earth. It is a physical network whose links occupy land, cross borders, employ people, consume fuel, and depend on infrastructure built in particular places. How to read the scores Cost, emissions, re...