What is a City?
Governance
Transportation
Equity
City Characteristics
100

Sometimes the opposite of urban

What is rural?

100

How are most cities funded?

What are property taxes?

100

400 – 500 metres 

What is a typical walkshed?

100

Provide homes regardless of sobriety or mental illness. 

What is Housing First?

100

55% 

What is the percentage of world population living in urban areas?

200

Population as a function of area

What is population density?

200

Separates distinct land uses

What is zoning?

200

Considered “frequent” transit

What is 15 minutes?

200

“Physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food”

What is Food Security?

200

68%

What will be the World population in cities by 2050?

300

If rural areas are more cultural homogeneous, what are Cities?

What is heterogeneous?

300

What is an alternative to traditional property taxes?

What is Land Value Tax?

300

Active Transportation increases with…?

What is mixed land uses?

300

A democratic, more human oriented use of technology

What is Solarpunk?

300

Increases amount and speed of stormwater flow 

What are impervious surfaces?

400

How are cities often defined?

What is size?

400

Thunder Bay has adopted this instead of R1 zoning.

What is Urban Low-rise (UL)?

400

TOD requires?

What is “build the transit first?”

400

Streets, parks, security, fire protection, public transportation, schools, hospitals...

What are public goods?

400

Local, Collector, Arterial 

What is a hierarchical road network?

500

Housing that falls between single family dwellings and highrise towers?

What is the ‘missing middle?’

500

Maps that exclude racialized minorities from financing?

What is redlining?

500

Todd Litman – “a good indicator and planning target?”

What are walkable neighbourhood pubs?

500

A critical theory questioning active transportation metrics

What is ableism?

500

More numerous than murder victims?

What are traffic fatalities?