Case Study
The types of transportation a city can implement depends on this
What is geography?
In the 1910s, this invention replaced trains as the most popular mode of transportation in suburban developments
What is automobiles?
This has led to the destruction of natural resources, leading to an increase in farmland
What is urban sprawl?
In 2014, it is estimated that there were this many passenger cars in the US
What is 600 million?
Most of today's urban water systems were developed in this century
What is the twentieth century?
This event, approaching in 1900, led to an increase in tourism, and a greater need for transportation
What are the Olympics?
Buildings belong to this sector of the environment
What is the built environment?
Roughly seventy percent of the world's water consumption is used for this
What is agriculture?
Because they spend more on housing and transportation, suburbanites have twice this than those who live in cities
This type of pollution, coming from highway systems, car parks and roads, can contaminate water
What is runoff?
One of Paris's solutions includes creating bus washing stations with this greener system
What is a recycling water system?
This part of New York is the birthplace of modern suburbia
What is Long Island?
What is petroleum?
It is expected that emissions of this greenhouse gas will grow in the US by 10% by 2035
What is CO2?
NRW is short for this kind of water, often lost through leakage, theft, and inaccurate metering
What is Non-Revenue Water?
Paris's solution for public transportation would be equivalent to cutting over fourteen million tons of this greenhouse gas
What is CO2?
Expectations around these types of vehicles have recently increased again
What are electric vehicles?
Transport is more dependent on this than any other economic sector
What is oil?
This sector accounts for a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions
What is transportation?
The WHO reported that between 1990 and 2012, the number of people living in cities without access to an improved drinking water source increased by this much
What is 34 percent?
After continuing to find a rise in C02 emissions, Paris began working on creating this kind of economy
What is a circular economy?
In 2010, this ex-mayor of Toronto suggested we "end the war on cars", which was prompted after an effort made to reduce car use
Who is Rob Ford?
Many industrialized cities have put in place these plans, which are expected to reduce energy use or promote shifts to renewables
What are Climate Action Plans?
Transportation in this country accounted for 27% of total greenhouse gas emissions in 2008
What is the US?
It is estimated that this much land in the US has been used for car parks, which contributes to air and water pollution
What is 9104 km2?