1. Housing (Growth and Decline) Lessons for Albacete, Spain Bryant Tan | 11.951 - Simulating Sustainable Futures | 9.18.07

2. City of Almere (Netherlands)

3. New town built in 1975 Population: 181,960 Insipired by Garden Towns in England Growth allowed for city with several cores Each neighborhood/area reflects the changing ideas of architecture and planning of their time About Almere

4. Housing in the Netherlands Land use: 68.9% of the land is used for agriculture, 19% of the surface is occupied by water A typical feature of population (and housing) distribution is that there are no really very large cities in the Netherlands 1960s government policy aimed at spreading population and employment opportunities to new towns 1990s housing policy aimed at concentrating developments within towns and cities 80% housing dates from 1945 46% housing stock is rental 35% (2.4 million dwellings) is social housing, 75% of rental

5. UC Merced (Merced, California, United States)

6. Campus opened in 2005 6 miles from downtown Merced Projected enrollment of 25,000 students by 2030 Expansion: 910 adjacent acres New University Community Next to Campus ~ 31,000 people 2,100 acres to includes 11,600 homes Plans for growth

7. Coordination with City of Merced Future population growth ~ 145,000 by 2015 ~ 240,000 by 2035. Need 48,000 housing units (3 per du)

8. The Great Plains (United States)

9. Almost two-thirds of the 376 counties in the Great Plains lost people from 1950 to 2006. Four counties in North Dakota lost two-thirds or more of their population in that time. The region's population almost doubled to 9.7 million during the same period, largely because of growth in metropolitan areas such as Denver, Wichita and Billings, Montana.

10. Conservation and reuse of land Reclaiming land from farming to convert into wildlife reservations (Buffalo Commons) Federal government’s Conservation Reserve Program claimed 18 million acres in 2006 from the Great Plains (half of national farmland reclaimed) Tourism Eco tourism Lewis and Clark Trail motorcoach tours (Nebraska) Encouraging settlement 1862 Homestead Act Land for cheap or free () Capitalization of information technology and declined need to be in metro areas Debt forgiveness Planning for shrinking cities Youngstown, Ohio Dealing with shrinking

11. Immigration and population grows Greater need for housing New development Population declining in smaller, rural, and historic towns Availability of housing Restoration and rehabilitation possibilities Grow where? Decline where? While…