Paper Topic

Sustainable development is my concentration within the IDS Department, so naturally I would like to make that the focus and slant for the interpretations i derrive from the research sources i choose to include in my final draft. I do not wish to write a research paper, rather i intend to due substantial research to write an original scholarly paper on the topic of city development and sustainable city planning. My subject of interest within the realm of sustainable development is social justice and i would like to focus the goals that embody the principles of social justice in city planning, organiztion, and management. Since cities are expected to occupy 35% of the land area in the US by 2050, i would like to assess how sustainable theory and prctices can be applied to city design and a nation that is spotted with urban centers. To complete this i will i will need to lightly touch on many topics while going into more depth about only a few. I will decide which topics will consume the majority of my time as the paper develops thorugh out the semester. The topics I intend to evaulate will range from energy consumption to Economics to Forest Management to Architecture to Agriculture to Social Issues and so on. I would like to create a theory that will create a socially just and ecologically sound idea for city planning. I would like to discuss this in the body of my paper and discuss relevant issues such a a city that has followed a pattern of Smart Growth, New Urbanism, or other sustainable planning initiatives as a case study within the paper as well.