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UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning1Week One:Since the objectives of Improving our community isbased on numeric value it is necessary to know whatare the values that we should be measuring in our community. The initial one hour lecture will coverwhat is consistently measured in a community to label it desirable and what is used to identifycommunity as undesirable. How we use specific tools to measure these relationships will be explored inweek one. There will be Examples of basic GIS functions, Search, Buffer, and Sort. Exposure to the threeor four Web Applications being used to define neighborhood will be demonstrated and discussionrelating to their backend data structure will be explained. Terms like, Symbology, Topology, Networkwill be demonstrated during week one demonstrationlecture.Objective: Using internet to “Search for specifictypes of Neighborhood”. Example Census tract withhigh educational level, low income level.. Understanding the Drivers and Forces causing thisrelationship.Assignment to show how GIS as a tool facilitates the values of a neighborhood. Why is havingquantitative information valuable. Which information that is experiential is missing in this data model.One Hour Discussion and DemonstrationOut ComeThree hour self directed research and presentationproduct.

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UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning4Week Two: Utility Systems:One Hour Discussion and Presentation relating to major support systems necessary to supportneighborhoods. How is this basic “Infrastructure support network taxed or how could it be augmentedto support a better neighborhood. Examples, Energy, Water, Sanitation, Storm Water,Utilities EnergyTelecomPowerRenewable

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UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning6Potable WaterIrrigation WaterSanitation SewerStorm WaterOutcomes of Week Two, will be an understanding and documentation how these infrastructuresystems are managed and designed to be dependend ina realtime model. Each of these primary utilitysystems will become more regionalized in most areasand with that will be opportunities for innovationlooking at how these systems interconnect. Addressing basic utility infrastructure into the proposalwillshow opportunities with these types of innovation.

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning7Week Three: Main Buildings Facility TypesDuring week three the main ideas of using a 3d modeling tool are covered. Using Sketchup and KMLfiles for geo location are explored. How to augmenta neighborhood using libraries, and build a collectivemodel with specific building types are explored.Hospital (Building Type)

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning8Box Store (Building Type)The instruction for using Sketchup will allow the “sharing of these building types. This will allow forgroup model building.Demonstration and Questions regarding building withsketchup will be covered. Further investigationregarding using kml files to locate specific buildings into Google Earth model will be demonstrated aswell as utility infrastructure alignments.

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning9Sketchup Tutorials:Week Four Community Activity: Learning, Making, Purchasing, Visiting, Worshiping, Shopping,Repairing,,Studying, Working, Mentoring, Gardening,Documenting the IDEAL condition:a)Prepare a 10 image powerpoint presentation what arethe human qualities needed to conducteach of these community activities. Define the method to asses how a neighborhood cancapture these specific types of Assets.b)How is a figure ground relationship developed. Understand how the scale of the neighborhoodis experienced. Line of Site, Smell, Physical Experience.c)Several websites likewww.trulia.comare giving Walkability Maps showing how within a shortdistance “Activity types “ are available. What areother “Benefits to the community “ availablein this WEB virtual environment.

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning10Week Five Natural SystemsThe intent of week Five investigation is to show the numerous natural systems that extendacross neighborhoods that should be “digitally “ documented. This system is underpinningconcept for Week Six System Dynamics. Through thisexploration qualities of neighborhoodsand their direct interconnection with natural systems will be identified.

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UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning12Week Six: System DynamicsOverviewSystem dynamics is a computer-aided approach to policy analysis and design. It applies todynamic problems arising in complex social, managerial, economic, or ecological systems --literally any dynamic systems characterized by interdependence, mutual interaction, informationfeedback, and circular causality.The field developed initially from the work of JayW. Forrester. His seminal book IndustrialDynamics (Forrester 1961) is still a significant statement of philosophy and methodology in thefield. Within ten years of its publication, the span of applications grew from corporate andindustrial problems to include the management of research and development, urban stagnationand decay, commodity cycles, and the dynamics of growth in a finite world. It is now applied ineconomics, public policy, environmental studies, defense, theory-building in social science, andother areas, as well as its home field, management.The name industrial dynamics no longerdoes justice to the breadth of the field, so it hasbecome generalized to system dynamics. Themodern name suggests links to other systems methodologies, but the links are weak andmisleading. System dynamics emerges out of servomechanisms engineering, not generalsystems theory or cybernetics (Richardson 1991).The system dynamics approach involves:•Defining problems dynamically, in terms of graphs over time.•Striving for an endogenous, behavioral view of thesignificant dynamics of a system, afocus inward on the characteristics of a system that themselves generate or exacerbate theperceived problem.•Thinking of all concepts in the real system as continuous quantities interconnected inloops of information feedback and circular causality.•Identifying independent stocks or accumulations (levels) in the system and their inflowsand outflows (rates).•Formulating a behavioral model capable of reproducing, by itself, the dynamic problemof concern. The model is usually a computer simulation model expressed in nonlinearequations, but is occasionally left unquantified asa diagram capturing the stock-and-flow/causal feedback structure of the system.•Deriving understandings and applicable policy insights from the resulting model.•Implementing changes resulting from model-based understandings and insights.http://www.systemdynamics.org/what_is_system_dynamics.html#structureGroup Model Building;A current direction within the field is the use ofmodel-based insights for organizational learning,represented most forcefully in Senge (1990) and Morecroft and Sterman (1994). The important neweffort to build models with relatively large groupsof experts and stakeholders, known as group modelbuilding, is described in Vennix (1996) and Richardson and Andersen (2010).