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Ch 23 Sustainable Cities Name ______________
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1. Environmental and urban designers envision the development of more environmentally sustainable cities, called ________ or ______ _____. (548)
2. What is the name of one of the world’s most sustainable cities and where is it located?
3. Describe 3 environmentally sensible things that happen in Curitiba to make it a successful eco-city.
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b.
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4. What do the poor people of Curitiba receive?
5. ______________ is the percentage of people in a country or the world living in an urban area. (549)
6. Describe the two ways that urban areas grow.
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b.
7. List 3 ways rural people can be pulled to urban areas?
8. List 3 ways rural people can be pushed to urban area?
9. The proportion of the global population living in urban areas is ________.
10. What percent of the world’s people will live in urban areas by 2030? _____
11. The number of large urban areas is ________.
12. How many megacities are there? ____
13. Where is the urban population increasing most rapidly? _______ ______
14. How many poor people live in crowded and unsanitary slums? _________
15. Between 1800 and 2006, the percentage of the U.S. population living in urban areas increased from ____ to ____. (550)
16. List the four phases of the population shift in the U.S.
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b.
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17. What were the world’s five most populous cities in 2006 and the five most populous ones projected for 2015? Fill-in the chart below from Figure 23-2.
|Year |Most populous | | | |Least populous |
|2004 |Tokyo | | | | |
|2015 | | | | | |
18. Explain 3 urban environmental problems that have been reduced since 1920. (551)
19. When land is available and affordable, urban areas tend to ______ outward and swallow up the surrounding _________.
20. Explain 2 consequences of urban sprawl.
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b.
21. “In a nutshell, urban sprawl is the product of ______________________
__________________________________________________. (552)
22. Which metropolitan area is the most “sprawled”? _________________
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23. Why do some people prefer to live in sprawling suburbs?
24. Complete the chart by using the information from Figure 23-6 on page 553.
|Natural capital degradation/ urban sprawl |
|Land & Biodiversity |Human Health Aesthetics |Water |Energy, Air, and Climate |Economic Effects |
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25. Urban areas can offer more ____ _________ and better education and ________, and can help protect ____________ by concentrating people. (553)
26. Describe two advantages of urbanization.
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b.
27. Describe two disadvantages of urbanization. (554)
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b.
28. Most urban dwellers are subjected to _______ ________(555)
29. Sound pressure becomes damaging at about ________ and painful at around _______. At 180 dbA it can ______.
30. Draw and label Figure 23-9, page 555 below.
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