Can the magic of the River Walk be expanded into a network of parks? Can a threatened airbase become an inventively planned development? Can a new automobile factory spark sustainable development? Can environmental protection and parkland expansion be an economic generator? Current and past mayors of the nation’s seventh largest city discuss the challenges and opportunities they have faced in planning San Antonio’s explosive growth.
    Learning objectives:

• Analyze if initial problems in case studies were solved in a sustainable way and, if not, challenge those solutions
• Synthesize and identify opportunities and challenges in the community which may have sustainable development solutions
• Demonstrate specific obstacles to overcome and enumerate benefits of final development strategies to analyze circumstances in thecommunity