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10.3 Sustainable Cities
Key Concepts
City planners use many tools in the attempt to make urban areas more livable.
Transportation options are vital to livable cities.
Parks and open space are key elements of livable cities.
The goal of a green building is to save energy and other resources without sacrificing
people’s comfort.
There has been promising progress toward urban sustainability.
Vocabulary Preview
Define each vocabulary term in your own words. Then, write yourself a quick note on
how you will remember each. One term has been done for you.
Term
Definition
How I Remember
City planning
Geographic
information
system (GIS)
Zoning
Urban growth
boundary
(UGB)
Smart growth
A philosophy of urban growth that focuses
on economic and environmental
approaches that lead to sustainable
growth and the avoidance of sprawl
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Smart growth starts with an S, which
makes me think of sustainable, which
also starts with an S.
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Ecological
restoration
Greenway
City Planning
1. Complete the following paragraph with terms from the word bank.
city planning
smart growth
geographic information system (GIS)
urban growth boundary (UGB)
zoning
The process of designing urban areas to make them livable is called
.
, a philosophy used to manage the spread of urban areas, guides this
process. This philosophy can lead to the establishment of a
, which limits
the spread of urban areas. City planners use many tools, for example
,
that allow data to be manipulated on computers. Decisions made about land use must be put
into practice to be effective. City planners use
to put decisions into use.
2. Describe the type of zoning typically seen in urban environments.
3. What do all urban growth boundaries have in common? Explain.
4. What philosophy of urban growth requires building up, not out?
5. Describe new urbanism.
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Transportation Options
6. List three examples of mass transit options in livable cities.
7. Describe at least two examples of advantages of mass transit over automobile use.
8. What are some ways city governments encourage the use of mass transit?
Open Space
9. Identify two ecological processes that are positively affected by the presence of parks and
open space in urban areas.
10.
Fill in the cluster diagram with examples of open space in a city.
Open Space
Parks
Greenways
11. Describe how greenways are valuable to humans and to wildlife.
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Green Building Design
12. What is another term for green building design?
13. What is the goal of green building design?
14. In what types of buildings has green building design been successful?
15. List three features that might be included in a green building.
Urban Sustainability Successes
16.
Fill in the chart with short descriptions of how each location
has made progress toward urban sustainability.
Urban Sustainability Successes
Curitiba, Brazil
New York City
17. What do the successes of urban sustainability suggest?
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Organize Information
18. Fill in the concept map with terms from the word bank.
city planning
mass transit
ecological restoration
geographic information system (GIS)
open spaces
urban growth boundary (UGB)
zoning
Sustainable Cities
can be achieved
through
enhance
encourage
through
instead of
which uses tools
such as
EXTENSION Redraw this concept map on a separate sheet of paper. Show how the terms
smart growth and green building design could logically be added to the concept map.
Include boxes, arrows, and linking words as needed to add the new terms.
Answer the questions to test your knowledge of lesson concepts. You can check your
work using the answers on the bottom of the page.
19. Describe the philosophy of smart growth.
20. Identify one positive and one negative impact of zoning.
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