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Urban Centers and Parks
Sprawl
City/Regional Planning
Transporation
Sustainable Cities
100
Reasons why parks and open spaces are key elements of livable cities
What is the need to escape from noise, commotion and stress of urban life?
100
The spread of low-density urban or suburban development outward from an urban center.
What is sprawl?
100
the professional pursuit that attempts to design cities so as to maximize their efficiency.
What is city planning?
100
This is a key component in any city planner's recipe for improving the quality of urban life.
What is transporation options?
100
Cities are resources sinks... what does this mean?
The have to import from beyond their borders nearly everything they need.
200
These provided pleasure grounds for the wealthy or areas of recreation for the poverty stricken
What are city parks?
200
These are the 2 main components of sprawl.
What are population growth and per capita land consumption?
200
People in this career deal with the same issues as city planners but work on broader geographic scales.
What is regional planning?
200
List 2 benefits of mass transit.
cheaper, more energy efficient, cleaner, less traffic
200
How do urban areas maximize efficiency of resources?
Houses are close together so providing electricity is easier, medical services, education, water and sewer systems, waste disposal and public transportation are all readily available
300
These areas are smaller but can make a big difference by allowing young children to be active.
What are playgrounds?
300
These are the primary reasons for greater per capita land consumption.
What are people like having space and privacy and dislike congestion?
300
This is a tool used to classify different areas for different types of development.
What is zoning?
300
List 2 different types of mass transit.
Bus, trains, subways, light rail
300
Why is the ecological footprint of city dwellers often larger than that of rural dwellers?
Because they are often wealthier people.
400
These are 2 positive effects of urban centers.
What is preserve land and foster innovation?
400
List 3 negative effects of sprawl.
More use of cars, more pollution, more land use, decrease in health, draining tax dollars from existing communities
400
This is the movement that seeks to design neighborhoods on a walkable scale with homes businesses and schools all close together for convenience.
What is new urbanism?
400
To make urban transportation more efficient, governments might do these 2 things.
Raise fuel taxes, tax inefficient modes of transport, reward carpoolers, encourage bicycle use and bus ridership, charge trucks for road damage
400
What are 2 ways cities can improve their standards of living while reducing their environmental impacts?
efficient use of resources, recycle, env. friendly technology, tax incentives, use locally produced resources, use organic waste to restore soil fertility, encourage urban agriculture
500
These are 2 types of pollution that urban residents often suffer from.
What is light and noise pollution?
500
These are intended to help limit sprawl by containing future growth largely within existing urbanized areas.
What is What is UGB's (urban growth boundaries)?
500
Proponents of this concept want municipalities to manage the rate, placement, and style of development to promote healthy neighborhoods and communities, jobs and economic development, transportation options and environmental quality.
What is smart growth?
500
What is one challenge a city might face when trying to introduce mass transit?
The road system might not be compatible, the city might not be large enough, the size of the transit system might be incompatible with the city
500
This is the field of study in which people hold that cities can be viewed explicitly as ecosystems and that the fundamentals of ecosystem ecology and systems science apply to urban areas.
What is urban ecology?