The best way for students to learn about geodesign is to apply their learning to real world projects, especially because many of the online students are already in the workforce.
Jim Sipes, a faculty member for the online geodesign program at Penn State and renowned designer with Sand County Studios, developed a project to investigate the new Atlanta Braves baseball stadium and neighborhood development as the challenge for the fall 2016 Geodesign II course on urban landscape change issues.
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