Carlton Basmajian

Carlton Basmajian

Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning, Urban Design, Iowa State University

Dr. Carlton Basmajian is an Associate Profess of Community and Regional Planning and Urban Design at Iowa State University, where he studies the history of urban and regional planning in the United States. He holds a bachelors degree from the University of Chicago, a masters degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2008. 

Latest articles by Carlton Basmajian

A cloudy burning orange sky hangs above a desert wasteland with the towering ruins of a modern city decaying on the horizon.

If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later?

By Carlton Basmajian published

After a year without people, the sky would be bluer, the air clearer. The wind and the rain would scrub clean the surface of the Earth; all the smog and dust that humans make would be gone.

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