This is a document that is written in markdown. What is markdown? It is a ‘markup language’ that allows you to format plain text in a way that is easily converted to many different formats. For example, this document was written in markdown but will be used as an webpage and converted into HTML.

To present and turn in your final projects for Conflict Urbanism, Spring 2025 you will be editing this template. You will include all of the text of your paper here, along with any and all images, maps, videos, or other materials that you produce.

This webpage provides a comprehensive guide to markdown syntax. But to make things easier for you we are including a cheat sheet of the main things you need to know here.

Please use level 4 headings for major section divisions

(make sure to put two spaces after the end of the heading)

Write words in bold like this.

Italics are similar and are formatted like this.

To make a paragraph break you need to add two spaces at the end of your line before going to the next line.

See this is now a new paragraph.

Lists are easy:

  1. they can be ordered
  2. like this
  3. notice that the numbers are automatically ordered
  4. use two spaces in front to indent

Or they can just be bullet points:

  • like this
  • or like this
    • use two spaces
    • to have nested lists

Use Author-Date parenthetical citations following Chicago Manual of Style conventions throughout your document, and add a works cited at the bottom of your post. See Author-Date quick guide here for citation conventions.

To include hyperlinks format them like this text of link.

To embed images first ensure that the file is at least 740px wide. Then place the image file in a folder named for your group in the images folder. Then link to that image using the format here, but replace the file path with the name of your group’s folder and appropriate image file name:

description of image

If you want to include html files (i.e. an interactive map) host these via your personal github page, and then you can embed them in your document with a iframe. The format looks like this:

All you need to do to use one is replace the url that is between the two “ “. Here is an iframe of mapbox tiles:

REMINDER: To view the structure of your website in Visual Studio Code without having to upload to Github, press the following keys to get a spit-screen view: Ctrl K then V.