SUSTAINABLE CITIES QUIZLET!
What are the two things Open Space provides?
1.) Provides greenery, beauty, freedom of movement, recreation opportunities Includes parks, playgrounds, community gardens, greenways 2.) Regulates climate, produces oxygen, filters air and waiter, provides habitat
Define Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs)
A line drawn around a city to separate urban areas from rural areas, with limited permission for development
Define Smart Growth
A philosophy used to manage the spread of urban areas, guides this process
What are transportation option examples?
Buses, subways, trains more efficient, less polluting than card
Notice how industrial properties are clustered away from most residential areas, commercial properties are clustered along roadways, and residential zones are in the ______ of town
Center
Define zoning
Classification of land areas for different types of development and land use
In the photo on the last slide, the tube at the Curitiba bus stop handles fare __________ for passengers boarding for exiting
Collection
Urban Sustainability Successes include...?
Curitiba, Brazil and New York City
Zoning allows planners to guide how a community ________
Develops
Disadvantages of UGBs
Does not completely stop sprawl; limits rights of private landowners
Smart Growth focuses on ________ and ___________ approaches to avoiding sprawl
Economic, environmental
What is Brazil's urban sustainability success?
Efficient bus network, recycling and environmental education is now provided
City planners attempt to design cities that work ___________ and both look and feel _________
Efficiently, appealing
Cities _________ mass transit (public transportation) with fuel taxes, vehicle taxes, rewarding carpoolers, and enculturations bicycle and bus use
Encourage
What is GIS?
Geographic Information System that is a commonly used tool for environmental, monagement modeling and planning
Sustainable architecture has also been a major success on ____ school and _______ campuses
High, college
How do you improve public transit?
Increase its service : More routes, increased frequency, and longer operating hours. Improved coordination among modes - buses, trains, ferries and airports. Transit Priority - bus lanes, queue-jumper lanes, bus-priority traffic signals, and other measures that reduce delay to transit vehicles
Smart Growth maintains open spaces by redeveloping existing urban areas, waterfronts, and __________ sites
Industrial
Examples of a green building
Motion lighting, solar panels, smart climate control systems, recycling air systems, etc....
Urban Growth Boundaries in Portland, Oregon
Oregon's urban growth boundaries were a response to fears that sprawl might one day create a megalopolis from Salem, Oregon, up the Willamette Valley and Puget Lowlands to Seattle, Washington (upper map). The Portland area's UGB (lower map) encompasses Portland (dark gray) and portions of 24 other communities and 3 counties (light gray)
What is NYC's urban sustainability success?
Pam underway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions improve public transit, plant treee, clean up polluted sites, and improve open space access
Smart Growth is based on development decisions that are ___________, fair, and cost-_________ for the city
Predictable, effective
Involves restrictions on the use of _______ land
Private
Define Transportation Options
Public transportation is a key factor in the quality of urban life
Ecological Restoration aims to...?
Recreate, initiate, or accelerate the recovery of an ecosystem that has been disturbed
Did you know? Paris France _______ 200,000 parking spaces to encourage the use of public transportation within the city
Removed
Advantages of UGBs
Saves 20% in infrastructure costs compared with sprawl; decreases per capita land use; promotes economic development within the city
Define "New Urbanism"
Seeks to design neighborhoods that minimize the need to drive Requires good public transportation systems Sometimes impossible due to zoning restrictions
An area can be mixed or ______ use
Single
Sustainable architecture has been __________ in residences and in commercial and industrial building all over the world
Successful
What is fare collection?
The collection of fares in the transport industry in return for a ticket or passes to travel
Define city planning
The process of designing urban areas to make them livable
What are the goals of a green building design?
To save energy and resources without sacrificing people's comfort
Did you know? More than 24,000 km of abandoned rail line in the U.S. have been converted to ______ for walking, jogging, and biking
Trails
How can a UGB prevent the formation of a megalopolis?
UGBs prevent the spread of cities beyond certain areas, reducing the chance that the suburbs of one city will spread into the suburbs of another city and form a megalopolis
Smart Growth builds "__" not "out" (2 types)
Up
UGB's limit the spread of _____ _____
Urban areas
Define Greenway
Usually a shared-use path along a strip of undeveloped land, in an urban or rural area, set aside for recreational use of environmental protection
What's the AIM?
What are the characteristics of sustainable city?
Define Megalopolis
A chain of metropolitan areas
City planners use zoning to put _________ into use
Decisions
Smart Growth is a _________
Philosophy