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• plans are also used to figure out how a city will function in the future (what kinds of jobs people will have, how much pollution will be created, or what kinds of transportation will move people from one part of the city to another).
• Urban plans look at current conditions in the community to figure out what’s working well and what may need to be improved.
• Urban planning looks at what’s good and bad about a community in the present, and plans ahead for how the community can maintain and improve itself in the future.
• By mid-century, about two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities and there will be more very large cities than ever before.