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Our Urbanizing World
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Livable Cities
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Potpourri
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The shift from the countryside into towns and cities
What is urbanization?
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, functionality, and beauty.
What is city planning?
100
Idea that cities can be viewed explicitly as ecosystems and that the fundamentals of ecosystems ecology and systems science apply to urban areas.
What is urban ecology?
100
These open spaces provide greenery, scenic beauty, freedom of movement, and places for recreation.
What are public parks?
200
The smaller communities that ring cities.
What are suburbs?
200
These are the 2 major factors that contribute to sprawl.
What are human population growth and per capita land consumption?
200
the practice of classifying areas for different types of development and land use.
What is zoning?
200
This is the term used for Urban and suburban areas which rely on large expanses of land elsewhere to supply food and other crops, as well as natural resources such as water, timber, metal ores, and mind fuels
What is resource sink?
200
List 2 of the many ecological benefits a city experiences by having public parks.
What is regulating climate, producing oxygen, filtering air and water pollutants or providing habitat for wildlife?
300
The driving force behind people moving to urban centers
What is Industrialization?
300
List 2 of the many reasons why sprawl is considered bad.
What is transportation, pollution, health, land use, or economics?
300
Mix land use, taking advantage of compact building design, walkable neighborhoods, preserving open space and farmland, and providing transportation options are all principle of this attempt to counter sprawl.
What is smart growth?
300
These are 2 of the many types of pollution a person living in a city might experience.
What is air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, light pollution?
300
These are 2 of the types of public transportation available to city dwellers.
What is rail system: trains, subway, or bus
400
Name 2 of the various factors influence the location of urban areas
What is Location, climate, topography or the configuration of waterways?
400
Another negative affect includes how it impacts the inner cities...explain.
Money gets used to build suburb areas instead of being invested in the city centers.
400
seeks to design neighborhoods on a walkable scale, with homes, businesses, schools, and other amenities all close together for concenience.
What is new urbanism?
400
Urban areas foster innovation, explain 2 reasons why.
Cities promote a flourishing cultural life and Urban environment can promote education and scientific reasearch and cities viewed as engines of technological and artistic inventiveness
400
What are 2 ways governments can encourage people to use public transportation?
raise fuel taxes, tax inefficient modes of transport, reward carpoolers with carpool lanes, encourage bicycle use and bus ridership, and charge trucks for road damage.
500
These are the main reasons people move from suburbs to cities
What is the desire to have more space and privacy?
500
Explain how sprawl contributes to increased use of fossil fuels.
People are spread out, and have to drive everywhere including a commute to work.
500
These aim to counter sprawl by revitalizing downtowns, protecting farms, forests and their industries, and ensuring urban dwellers have some access to open space near cities.
What are UGBs or urban growth boundaries?
500
These are 3 of the many ways to make cities more sustainable.
What is efficient use of resources, recycle, develop env. friendly tech, account for external costs, offer tax incentives to encourage sustainable practices, use locally produced resources, encourage urban agriculture, or use organic waste and waste-water to restore soil fertility?
500
Curitiba is a city in this country that shows the benefits of what can happen when a city invests in well-planned infrastructure.
What is Brazil?