Sim City
What is Urban Planning?
The process of designing and organizing land use, infrastructure, and communities to make cities, towns, and neighborhoods functional, sustainable and enjoyable places to live.
What city is working towards carbon zero by reducing cars?
Copenhagen
Why is Houston one of the worst designed cities?
Poor zoning that doesn't meet the basic needs of the economy
What is Downies favorite animal
Bird
How can cities be sustainable?
Through incorporating green infrastructure. Key components of this include green roofs, rain gardens, parks, and permeable surfaces that reduce stormwater runoff and improve air quality.
How does Copenhagen reduce car usage
Taxing new cars by 150%
What does Houston lack in sustainability?
Green spaces, quick and easy access to buildings, lack of adjustability to natural disasters
What Needohs does Downie have on his desk?
Dumdrop and Jellyfish, Nice cube is gone :(
What is the most sustainable type of city transportation?
Comprehensive networks that connect land, making walking and biking easier than driving. Also making mass public transportation easy and accessible.
What is Copenhagens quality of life
Extremely high due to investments in its waterfront, public recreation, and easy to walk streets, and parks
What is suburbanization in Detroit?
A socioeconomic separation that allows rich to take up land and use excess land as waste dumbsites
Who is Downies best friend?
Mr. Nuss
What are successful waste systems?
Landfills far from residential areas, promoting a circular economy and processing waste efficiently
What is a con of sustainable urban planning
How is Detroit expanding?
They are industrializing, leaving less walkable spaces and a shrinking downtown despite growing populations and little public transportation
What is Mr Downies party trick
”Ploop”
What is sustainable energy use in a city?
Reduced transportation, implementing green infrastructure, and optimizing/subsidizing buildings that offer renewable energy integration
Seperate, and enforced recycling, trash and reusing bins, emphasizing the reuse of buildings and materials
What is the health risk in Detroit?
The rising automotive industry has been linked to high pollution that is impacting the environment and health issues such as cancer and poor respiratory health
Who is Downies favorite class?
Period 7! ESS