What is urbanization?
A shift from rural countryside living to densely populated city living.
Provide 2 reasons for why urban populations are growing.
1. The human population is growing (exponentially!)
2. More people are moving away from farms and into cities for job opportunities or education opportunities.
What has allowed resource-poor cities to survive?
Fossil Fuels
What is sprawl AND what invention helped encourage this phenomenon?
Sprawl is the spread of lower-density development outward from a city-center. Automobiles encouraged this, because individuals were able to move further distanc
Tell me one way that sprawl negatively effects the environment.
Higher CO2 emissions.
Why might individuals living in the city be opposed to sprawl?
Focus your answer on public tax money.
Tax dollars are being used to build infrastructure away from the city-center.
Name the term:
The professional pursuit of designing cities to improve efficiency, functionality, and beauty
City Planning
Name the term: The practice of classifying different areas for specific development purposes
Bonus: Why does it not always work in a positive way?
Zoning
Corruption
Describe the main goal of urbanism.
Urbanism’s main goal is to create walkable cities. Businesses, schools, and residences are all planned along walking paths for convenience.
Provide 2 strategies for encouraging public transportation.
Raising fuel taxes, tax inefficient modes of transportation, add carpool lanes to roads, add bicycle and walking lanes, charge trucks for road damage
Attract visitors, provide residents with peace and recreational opportunities, purify air and water, provide wildlife with habitat etc.
There are all benefits of _______ in urban areas.
Green Spaces
Name the term:
Corridors or parkland often encircling urban areas
Greenbelts
What are greenways?
Strips of walking trails that connect parks or neighborhoods
Provide 2 examples of environmentally friendly building strategies.
installing solar panels, taking advantage of natural light with large sun-facing windows, using recycled building materials, harvesting water in rain-barrels
Urban areas are considered to be “resource sinks.” Explain what this means.
They make very few of the products they are using themselves, and need to ship in most of what their residents purchase from distant places.
Describe the goal of urban ecology.
To view urban areas as ecosystems, by understanding how all of the parts of the city are interrelated.
