SLS Case Study: The Atlanta Beltline Case Category: Type: Reading; Time Studies on Sustainable Discussion; Take-home Discipline: All Commitment: Communities; assignment, project; mins Sustainability in Atlanta exercise Big Ideas: OVERVIEW: The Atlanta BeltLine is one of the most important renewal projects of the 21st century. In this case study, read about the ambitions, successes, and struggles of this project, now in its 12th year. Serve-Learn-Sustain interprets sustainable communities as integrated systems, wherein environmental, economic, and social factors all inform each other. As you read this case study, consider these terms as discrete factors, but also as connected. This tool was contributed by Bethany Jacobs. INSTRUCTIONS: Use this case study in the way that works best for your class: assign it as a take-home reading, or as an in-class reading. Supplement the case study with sources from the Additional Readings section. Either as a take-home assignment, or in-class discussion, answer the Discussion Questions, or craft your own. SLS STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES & ASSESSMENT: The Serve-Learn-Sustain toolkit teaching tools are designed to help students achieve not only SLS student learning outcomes (SLOs), but the unique learning outcomes for your own courses. Reflection, concept maps, rubrics, and other assessment methods are shown to improve student learning. For resources on how to assess your students’ work, please review our . This tool achieves SLOs 1 and 3. See the end of this tool for further details. SLS Case Study: The Atlanta Beltline
SLS Case Study: The Atlanta Beltline Discipline: All Type: Reading; Discussion; Take-home assignment, project; exercise Time Commitment: mins Category: Case Studies on Sustainable Communities; Sustainability in Atlanta Big Ideas: OVERVIEW: The Atlanta BeltLine is one of the most important renewal projects of the 21st century. In this case study, read about the ambitions, successes, and struggles of this project, now in its 12th year. Serve-Learn-Sustain interprets sustainable communities as integrated systems, wherein environmental, economic, and social factors all inform each other. As you read this case study, consider these terms as discrete factors, but also as connected. This tool was contributed by Bethany Jacobs. INSTRUCTIONS: Use this case study in the way that works best for your class: assign it as a take-home reading, or as an in-class reading. Supplement the case study with sources from the Additional Readings section. Either as a take-home assignment, or in-class discussion, answer the Discussion Questions, or craft your own. SLS STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES & ASSESSMENT: The Serve-Learn-Sustain toolkit teaching tools are designed to help students achieve not only SLS student learning outcomes (SLOs), but the unique learning outcomes for your own courses. Reflection, concept maps, rubrics, and other assessment methods are shown to improve student learning. For resources on how to assess your students’ work, please review our . This tool achieves SLOs 1 and 3. See the end of this tool for further details. SLS Case Study: The Atlanta Beltline