Power of Place #4 East Looks West

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Power of place #24 Cityscapes, Suburban Sprawl- Boston and Chicago

1. What is the CBD? Where is it located?

2. What are empowerment zones?

3. What is the ethnicity of the majority of the residents in South Boston?

4. What is La Cocina?

5. Where does the funding to Revitalize Boston’s empowerment zone come from?

6. List three things which occurred as a result of the empowerment zone’s revitalization.

7. What is advantageous about the relative location of Boston’s empowerment zone?

8. How can new businesses in the Boston empowerment zone receive tax credits?

9. North America’s tallest building is located where? What is it called?

10. Where is Sears located?

11. Why have many employers left the Central Business District?

12. Farmlands in what region of North America are under threat as a result of suburban sprawl?

13. What are “edge cities” on the edge of?

14. Why did Motorola leave the Chicago CBD for an edge city?

Answer the following Question on a separate sheet of paper.

The pattern of migration in LDC’s is from Rural to Urban. The pattern in MDC’s is predominantly the opposite- from Urban to Rural.

Discuss why these patterns are so different.