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| 8672986310 | City planning | The professional pursuit that attempts to design cities in such a way as to maximize their efficiency, functionality, and beauty. | 0 | |
| 8672986311 | New urbanism | A school of thought among architects, planners, and developers that seeks to design neighborhoods in which homes, businesses, schools, and other amenities are within walking distance of one another. In a direct rebuttal to sprawl, proponents of new urbanism aim to create functional neighborhoods in which families can meet most of their needs close to home without the use of a car. |  | 1 |
| 8672986312 | Regional planning | City planning done on broader geographic scales, generally involving multiple municipal governments. | 2 | |
| 8672986313 | Smart Growth | A city planning concept in which a community's growth is managed in ways that limit sprawl and maintain or improve residents' quality of life. It involves guiding the rate, placement, and style of development such that it serves the environment, the economy, and the community |  | 3 |
| 8672986314 | Sprawl | The unrestrained spread of urban or suburban development outward from a city center and across the landscape. Sometimes specified as growth in which the area of development outpaces population growth |  | 4 |
| 8672986315 | Suburbs | A smaller community that rings a city |  | 5 |
| 8672986316 | Urban ecology | A scientific field that views cities explicitly as ecosystems. Researchers in this field seek to apply the fundamentals of ecosystem ecology and systems science to urban areas. |  | 6 |
| 8672986317 | Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) | In city planning, a geographic boundary intended to separate areas desired to be urban from areas desired to remain rural. Development for housing, commerce, and industry are encourage within urban growth boundaries, but beyond them such development is severely restricted | | 7 |
| 8672986318 | Urbanization | The shift from rural to city and suburban living |  | 8 |
| 8672986319 | Zoning | the practice of classifying areas for different types of development and land use | 9 | |
| 8672986320 | Urban | a city of more than 2,500 people |  | 10 |
| 8672986321 | Rural | a city of area with less than 2,500 |  | 11 |
| 8672986322 | Suburban | An urban area on the outskirts of the city center |  | 12 |
| 8672986323 | The movement of people from rural communities to Urban communities... (birthrates) | causes a decline in birthrates; U.N estimates almost all population growth will be in Urban communities | 13 | |
| 8672986324 | Pull (Reason people move to cities) | Job opportunities, healthcare, education | 14 | |
| 8672986325 | Push (Reason people leave cities) | Wars, famine, environmental degradation, loss of nature | 15 | |
| 8672986326 | The U.S. Population is moving... (to what direction?) | from North & East to West & South | 16 | |
| 8672986327 | Reasons people move to suburbs & add to sprawl | availability of cars & roads, cheaper homes, desire for yard, affluence, less crime, better schools, less pollution | 17 | |
| 8672986328 | 5 Negative impacts of Sprawl | Transportation (becomes worse), Pollution, Health, Land Use, Economics | 18 | |
| 8672986329 | Transportation (Sprawl) | Sprawl constrains transportation options, essentially forcing people to drive cars; causes lack of mass transit options, more traffic accidents; automobile-oriented culture which leads to reliance on nonrenewable petroleum | 19 | |
| 8672986330 | Pollution (Sprawl) | By promoting automobile transportation, sprawl increases pollution; Carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles increase (Climate change, air problems, Ozone layer, water ways [oils]) | 20 | |
| 8672986331 | Health (Sprawl) | Promotes physical inactivity because driving cars largely takes the place of walking during daily errands. (Increased obesity and high blood pressure) | 21 | |
| 8672986332 | Land use (Sprawl) | The spread of low-density development means that more land is developed while less is left as forests, fields, farmland, or ranch land. | 22 | |
| 8672986333 | Economics (Sprawl) | Sprawl drains tax dollars from existing communities and funnels them into infrastructure for new development on the fringes of those communities. (money that could be used to improve education and other modes of life are used on developing more houses) | 23 | |
| 8672986334 | Urban development is often done over forests, and when it does, these things happen: | Evaporation, transpiration, groundwater recharge decreases, runoff increases | 24 | |
| 8672986335 | Municipal | having to do with a city | 25 | |
| 8672986336 | Smart Growth principles | Provide a variety of transportation choices, Create Walkable neighborhoods, Make development decisions predictable, fair, and cost-effective | 26 | |
| 8672986337 | Greenway | A strip of park land that connects parks or neighborhoods; often located along rivers, streams, or canals |  | 27 |
| 8672986338 | Greenbelt | A long and wide corridor of parkland, often encircling an entire urban area |  | 28 |
| 8672986339 | Green building | (1) A structure that minimizes the ecological footprint of its construction and operation by using sustainable materials, using minimal energy and water, reducing health impacts, limiting pollution, and recycling waste. (2) The pursuit of constructing or renovating such buildings. |  | 29 |
| 8672986340 | Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) | The leading set of standards for sustainable building. |  | 30 |
| 8672986341 | Examples of Green Buildings | Bank of America Tower, Heliotrope, The Crystal, One Angel Square |  | 31 |
| 8672986342 | Benefits of Cities | Higher population density which equals more in-tact ecosystems outside the city (Ex. Japan 35/100 live in Tokyo, leaving pristine forests for ecosystem services), better medical care, efficient public services | 32 | |
| 8672986343 | Negatives of Cities | Resource Sink, more air, water, noise, and light pollution; affects poor more and is an issue of environmental Justice, Heat Islands, Bigger ecological foot print due to wealth | 33 | |
| 8672986344 | Urban Heat Island Effect | The phenomenon whereby a city becomes warmer than outlying areas because of the concentration of heat generating buildings, vehicles, and people, and because buildings and dark paved surfaces absorb heat |  | 34 |
