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Video Links:

• 15.1 The Transit System of the Future
  Description: In this forward-thinking talk, preview exciting concepts like modular, detachable buses, flying taxis and networks of suspended magnetic pods that could help make the dream of a dynamic, driverless world into a reality.
   
• 15.2 The Future of Cities
  Description: This video from Ted Talks examines how megacities are now changing the map of the world.
   
• 15.3 Urban Planning
  Description: Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of "Stop" and "Yield."

Audio Links:

• 15.1 Immigration
  Description: Alabama's new immigration law aims to make life so difficult for illegal immigrants that they will "self-deport." And in a way it's working. Immigrants are fleeing Alabama...but not just the undocumented ones. This and other stories of people living with the unintended consequences of their decisions.
   
• 15.2 Small Towns
• Description: Stories of small town life: the claustrophobia and freedom people feel in small towns, the yearning people feel in small towns. Three teenagers in one of the harshest urban environments explain how the public housing projects are like a small town.

Web Resources:

• 15.1 Pandemics
  Description: This article from TIME magazine examines the top 10 epidemics that have plagued our world.
   
• 15.2 Population Clock
  Description: The Population Clock, issued by the Census Bureau, looks at how many births and deaths take place within the United States as well as the 10 most populated countries around the world.
   
• 15.3 Urban Sprawl
  Description: This article from Contexts Magazine examines urban sprawl and how this sprawl has changed the urban landscape and changed American life.
   
• 15.4 The Growth of Cities
  Description: This article from Pacific Standard Magazine examines  a simple pattern of population growth and decline in 4 major cities in both the United States and Europe.