From the course: Strategic Planning and Urban Design Foundations
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Employment and context
From the course: Strategic Planning and Urban Design Foundations
Employment and context
- Let's have a conversation about employment districts throughout the city and how we need different contextual design solutions for different types of uses. While our centers and corridors are going to absorb a large percentage of our future job growth, we need to think about existing business sectors. These are places that have very specific physical space and infrastructure needs like hospitals and university campuses and traditional industrial lands. So let's first talk about hospitals and education centers. So our job forecasts show that one third of future job growth in the city for the next 20 years are going to be in healthcare or education. So we really need to preserve our institutional lands. And make sure that we have proper zoning and development standards in place so that these campuses can grow up and support future students and future employees. Now let's talk about industrial land, just briefly. These are our traditional warehouse districts and we really want to…
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