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Which of the following is a major concern of people who oppose urban sprawl?
a. habitat loss
b. affordable housing
c. subsistence farming
d. point-source pollution
What is A. Habitat Loss
What was the biggest problem created by urban sprawl in Atlanta in the 1990s?
a. traffic jams and air pollution
b. habitat loss of endangered species
c. rising taxes in small towns outside the city
d. hidden costs in new developments
What is A. traffic jams and air pollution
What are mixed-use developments?
What is combines housing and business in one area
Where is the suburb of a city most likely to be located?
a. inside the urban core
b. on the urban fringe
c. in a mixed-use neighborhood
d. outside the urban growth boundary
What is B. On the urban fringe
What were the three goals of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority?
a. promote all new development, attract new businesses to the city, reduce environmental protections
b. reduce air pollution, promote sustainability, protect the habitats of endangered animals
c. reduce traffic jams, reduce air pollution, reduce poorly planned development
What is C. reduce traffic jams, reduce air pollution, reduce poorly planned development
What is part of Portland’s well-planned transit system?
What are busses and streetcars.
Which of these is not part of Portland’s smart growth approach to land use planning?
a. mixed-use developments
b. a well-planned transit system
c. single-family homes on large lots
d. a pedestrian-friendly downtown
What is C. Single-family homes on large lots.
Which of the following is NOT a policy that the state of Georgia enacted to address urban sprawl?
a. promote mixed-use development
b. limit new development to 25 percent of the city
c. create new biking and walking paths to encourage people to bike or walk instead of drive
d. expand the city’s public transportation system
What is B. limit new development to 25 percent of the city
The main purpose of an urban growth boundary is to stop the development of ___________________.
What is rural land.
In 1973, Oregon placed growth boundaries around its urban areas. What was the main purpose of these boundaries?
a. to expand public transit systems
b. to stop development of rural areas
c. to make housing more affordable
d. to reduce traffic jams on highways
What is B. To stop development of rural areas.
Define a metropolitan area.
What is a major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that surround it is a metropolitan area.
Define rural fringe.
The small towns, farms, and open spaces that lie just beyond a city’s suburbs are the rural fringe.
Which of the following is something someone who is in favor of urban sprawl might say?
a. Developing land outside of cities is good for the environment.
b. Newly developed land results in lower taxes for the people who live nearby.
c. Urban sprawl creates traffic problems and increases pollution.
d. Developing land outside of cities is the best way to meet the demand for new housing.
What is D. Developing land outside of cities is the best way to meet the demand for new housing.
Define infill.
What is filling in empty or run-down parts of a city with new development.
Define urban core.
A city’s downtown or central business district is the urban core.