green Map Fairbanks

摘要

"Don't just STUDY problems—help SOLVE them!" read the publicity fliers for a fall special topics course called Fairbanks Sustainability Inventory. How can students actively solve the problems of Alaska's second-largest city? Susan Todd, associate professor of regional and land use planning with the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, decided to introduce them to one approach. Before a problem can be solved, it must be identified. So too must possible assets and solutions. Enter the Green Mapping System, an international project that originated with the Green Apple Map, a map of New York city created in 1992 by Wendy Brawer and Modern World Design. Brawer developed, from this original mapping project, a systematic, collaborative approach to mapmaking that would be useful to both residents and visitors in communities around the world.