Urban Sprawl History
Urban Sprawl Ramifications
Urban Sprawl Life
Livable City
Urban Blight
100
What was a major contributor to widespread movement into the suburbs after WWII?
What is increased ownership of automobiles
100
What are the rust belt areas?
What is abandoned urban industries
100
Double Jeopardy (make your wager....)
What is habitat fragmentation
100
Most successful urban plans focusing on livable cities, design space to be centered on what?
What is movements and interactions of people
100
How are the consequences of urban sprawl and urban blight different?
What is Urban sprawl results in problems associated with the environment while urban blight involves issues of social justice.
200
Prior to WWII most people in US cities used what form of transportation?
What is public transportation
200
How did the 2008 recession effect urban sprawl?
What is greatly slowed suburban building and new house purchases
200
In comparison to urban life, how are shopping and transportation different for people living in inner city?
What is walk more and shop locally
200
Livable cities are designed to permit people to do what?
What is walk to most places they want to go
200
High crime rates in US cities is generally caused by what?
What is poor social conditions and poverty
300
Post WWII what transportation to work became less frequently used?
What is walking
300
what is urban sprawl mostly associated with?
What is low residential density, high physical separation between homes, work, and shopping and congested traffic
300
Expanding suburbs with physical boundaries that limit spread is an example of what kind of growth
What is smart growth
300
One of the most common and essential ways that modern cities have become more livable is by shifting emphasis from what?
What is personal automobiles to public transportation
300
As a city moves toward sustainability, the sustainable development typically is concentrated on what?
What is natural resources in that area
400
Post WWII the federal government encouraged urban sprawl by offering what incentive?
What is low interest home loans
400
Over the past 50 years in the US how have the populations of suburbs, rural regions and cities changed?
What is suburbs have increased population while rural and cities have declined
400
What act did the Obama administration direct at combating urban sprawl?
What is American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
400
What are some items that one would be less likely to see in a modern livable city?
What is parking lots, automobiles, and highways
400
At what levels in society do responsible and sustainable actions and policies regarding environmental issues function?
What is all levels of society
500
How has commuting time and commuting distances changed over the past 50 years?
What is commuting time has remained about the same commuting distances have doubled
500
Abundant shopping malls, unclear city boundaries, dense and congested traffic all describe what?
What is characteristics of urban sprawl
500
What is the main cause of financial problems for a city experiencing urban blight?
What is a declining tax base
500
How does the move to curb urban sprawl reflect on agricultural and wilderness spaces?
What is conserves agricultural and wilderness spaces
500
What people have been left behind in US cities as urban sprawl progressed?
What are older, poor and ethnic minorities
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