Potpourri1
Habitat fragmentation and community segregation
What are environmental and social impacts of sprawl?
Created Central Park
Who is Fredrick Law Olmstead?
The 3 Rs that shaped the landscape
What is Regulation, Redevelopment, and Relocation?
Who is Garrett Hardin?
Haussman's contemporary in New York and Chicago.
Who is Burnham?
How the (British) courts initially protected privatizing lands
What is Nuisance and Trespass?
Someone cuts down trees on your property. This is a form of....
What is Trespass
"Eyes on the street" and defended East Village from a highway project.
Who is Jane Jacobs?
An enabler of post-WW II growth to the suburbs
What is affordable mortgages/GI Bill, interstate hwy.?
Impacts of shrinking cities
What is eroding tax base, deterioration of infrastructure, and higher property taxes?
White flight, population growth, higher incomes, the automobile
One way sprawl can be measured
Street node density, ecological footprint, housing density, distance from the city
Factors that enabled Denis to leave his feudal lifestyle
Increase safety, health (not plague), increased opportunity (become tradesman), population pressures
What was the purpose of the Homeowners Loan Corporation (HOLC)?
Provide loan guarantees
Poor school quality, adverse health incomes, and reduced opportunities for wealth accumulation.
What are impacts of redlining that continue to impact communities today?