Critically assess the contributions of a particular urban planning influencer using a text by or about the figure as the predominate source and supported by other sources.
BOOK: Speck, J. (2012). Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. ISBN: 9781429945967, 1429945966.
Your work should include:
a brief biographical/career sketch of the influencer,
an exposition of the influencer’s contribution to the field of urban planning and legacy, and
a critique of the principles associated with the influencer.
Read the text and collect supporting sources. Take notes that include discussion questions, key points, and a rough outline or draft.
Cover page – author name, paper title, assignment, instructor, date, and course number.
Body
Introduction – state the topic and research question, provide context and gives the reader a roadmap for where the paper is going.
Focus – on explaining your critical analysis. Use supportive evidence from your source material.
Conclusion – let the reader know what you concluded, or learned, from the evidence. Show how you supported your thesis argument. Do not simply restate your introduction or summarize your paper.
Works cited, properly formatted using APA guidelines
must use at least 6 additional autobiographical or expert source including 2 peer reviewed journal articles.
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