Urban
A massive urban area with a total population in excess of 10 million people.
What is a Megacity?
This type of infrastructure allows workers to live further from city centers while reducing traffic congestion and carbon emissions.
What is Public Transportation?
Geography was destiny for Chicago; it became a major hub because it served as the primary link between these two major water systems
What are the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River?
On the Chicago flag, these two blue horizontal stripes represent these specific bodies of water
What are the North/South branches of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan?
Are certain demographics grouped in specific zones?
Segregation
A "hyper-city" or massive conurbation that houses more than 20 million people.
What is a Metacity?
By providing an affordable alternative to car ownership, public transportation specifically increases economic opportunity for these two groups of people.
Who are low-income residents and urban commuters?
This 1871 disaster destroyed over 3 square miles of the city but led to the birth of the modern skyscraper and stricter building codes
What was the Great Chicago Fire?
While the stripes represent water, these four specific symbols on the flag represent historical events like the Great Fire and the World's Fairs.
What are the six-pointed red stars?
What are highly populated areas with poor infrastructure associated with poverty
- People move there to be closer to the city and job opportunities but cannot aord housing in the city
Slums
A city that exerts significant influence on global economics, culture, and politics, like New York or London.
What is a World City?
Where did the first urban development begin?
River Valley Civilizations
Implementing things that would make the city more environmentally friendly (Bike lanes)
Sustainable Design
What is displacement? How does gentrication lead to displacement?
low-income families are forced out of homes because rent becomes too high
The creation of walkable, environmentally friendly cities with business that are close to housing (Mixed-used communities)
What is New Urbanism?
Define Urbanization.
The process where cities grow and develop
What are common issues related to rapid urbanization?
Poor Infrastructure, overcrowded, and income difference between people
Development of new housing on land outside of urban areas.
Problem- Pollution, leaving pockets of development land, bad for business
Suburban Sprawl
True or False: More americans will live in metropolitan areas than suburbs
Banks would draw a redline around a neighborhood where they would not give any loans out to those people
What are the reasons that people would move to urban areas?
More jobs & opportunities.
Where have we seen in the world have the most urbanization?
Africa and Asisa
What was the reason Chicago became a major city?
The river- Connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River
List 4 characteristics of a suburb:
- Spread out
- Use of automobiles
- Single family homes
- Close to the cities but not in the cities
When middle and upper class people move into a low income neighborhood and renovate the area
What is Gentrification.