Today in PLAN639 Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets: it's mid-term time!
But we do things a little differently here at #CarolinaPlanning. In March, in the heart of basketball country, our mid-term is a tournament.
May the team with the best safe streets funding proposal win.
UNC-Chapel Hill is seeking 2 two full-time #Teaching Assistant Professors in city & regional #planning!!
Position 1: intersection of planning and #**communication. **Applications due** March 1**: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/273977
Position 2: intersection of planning and #**PersonalFinance**. Applications due **March 22**: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/275172
Full time, 9-month positions w/ 3-3 teaching load. Expected start date **July 1, 2024**
The Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is seeking a full-time Teaching Assistant Professor to teach courses at the intersection of city and regional planning and communication. This position is a full time, 9-month position and carries a 3 course per semester teaching load in spring and fall. Five courses must be undergraduate courses that meet the Communication Beyond Carolina degree requirement. Such courses must meet a minimum threshold of 2/3 course content and/or assignments that include the practice of oral communication (broadly defined). The sixth course will be determined based on the selected candidate's expertise and departmental needs. The selected candidate may choose to work with the UNC's Program for Public Discourse (PPD) to support a culture of robust public argument and to equip Carolina students with deliberative capacities to serve Carolina and beyond. If upon being hired, the candidate wishes to work with PPD, they may be considered for a secondary appointment in that unit. This position will be hired with a 3-year initial contract with the possibility of renewal and promotion, in accordance with university and departmental personnel policies. This position is expected to spend approximately 80% of their time teaching and approximately 20% of their time doing service. We are looking to hire for a July 1, 2024 start date.
This week in Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets: a field trip to a cluster of schools located on a narrow, high speed two-lane road, and meeting with #ChapelHillNC planning staff to discuss ways we can make the area safer for kids to get to and from school.
The focus for the 2nd half of the course is on developing design and policy recommendations to support the town's commitment to #SafeStreetsForAll. It's a treat helping our students get this hands on experience.
This week in Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets, we're talking about how to measure travel demand...in the most literal sense of the word: "I demand to be able to get to work, school, the park, wherever, safely, via my chosen travel mode."
We'll cover common approaches to evaluating demand, pitfalls of those approaches, and techniques you can use now to better understand your community's mobility needs.
#CompleteStreets #SafeStreets4All #CarolinaPlanning #PLAN639
This week in Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets, we're talking about:
-- the relationships between #CompleteStreets and #SafeSystems with the brilliant and lovely @sethlaj,
-- how one person's idea of the perfect street may be someone else's living hell, and
-- why it's seemingly so dang hard to make intersections like this one ⤵️ less hostile to everyone:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9303533,-79.0242746,144m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
What we're talking about this week in my Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets course:
1. The legal frameworks that should guarantee #SafeStreetsForAll...and why they fail,
2. The 4 types of cyclists, and
3. The* downsides* of many well-meaning "safety" campaigns, including this one: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/make-eye-contact-with-drivers-before-crossing-the-street-pedestrian-safety-vienna-eye-to-eye
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