Name_______________ Chapter 24 Sustainable Communities

URBAN SPRAWL

1. List three factors that contributed the most to urban sprawl.

a.

b.

c.

2. Indicate whether the following have enhanced ( + ) or had no effect on urban sprawl.

a. cars

b. highway trust fund

c. commuting distances

d. low rural tax base

e. low interest mortgages

f. highway revenue act of 1956

3. How does a suburb differ from an exurb?

SMART GROWTH: STOPPING URBAN SPRAWL

4. List the four strategies for Smart Growth.

a.

b.

c.

d.

5. Which of the following are not characteristics of Smart Growth?

a. dissociated homes, workplaces, recreation areas

b. planning for car transportation

c. protection of sensitive lands

d. community integration

URBAN BLIGHT

6. What is the main negative societal impact of exurban migration?

7. An eroding tax base is characteristic of the ______________.

8. The quality and quantity of government services is ____________ in the central city compared to the suburbs.

9. Exurban migration causes the central city infrastructure to __________.

LIVEABLE CITIES

10. Which of the following make cities liveable?

a. Reduce outward sprawl

b. Reduce automobile traffic

c. Improve foot access

d. Mass transit

e. High population density

f. Heterogeneity of residences

11. How did Portland, Oregon make its city more liveable.

SUSTAINABILITY

12. Identify six characteristics of a sustainable city.

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

f

13. Economic ___________ + environmental ______________ + social _________ = __________________.

14. Define: sustainability, stewardship and sound science.