As a city planner and a bit of a research fiend, Ken Steif said he knew what he was going to do when City Council proposed zoning legislation for Pennsylvania's future medical marijuana dispensaries.
Make a map.
Steif, the director of the master's degree program in Urban Spatial Analytics at the University of Pennsylvania, who also teaches courses in the school's city planning department, said he's fascinated by new land laws appearing in places across the country. Newly developed technologies and policy changes – like drones and self-driven cars and changes to marijuana laws – are forcing cities and communities to rethink how they do things.
"There's no sense of how those changes will play out," he said.
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Make a map.
Steif, the director of the master's degree program in Urban Spatial Analytics at the University of Pennsylvania, who also teaches courses in the school's city planning department, said he's fascinated by new land laws appearing in places across the country. Newly developed technologies and policy changes – like drones and self-driven cars and changes to marijuana laws – are forcing cities and communities to rethink how they do things.
"There's no sense of how those changes will play out," he said.
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