Chapter 10
Thinking About the Environment Questions
End of Chapter Questions:
1. What is urbanization?
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2. Which countries are the most urbanized? the least urbanized? What is the urbanization trend today in largely rural nations?
3. What is an urban agglomeration? Give an example.
4. What are some of the problems brought on by rapid urban growth in developing countries?
5. What are the four variables that urban ecologists study?
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6. Suggest a reason why many squatter settlements are built on floodplains or steep slopes.
7. Generally, the higher a country's level of urbanization, the lower its level of poverty. Suggest a possible explanation for this observation.
8. What is a brownfield?
9. How has transportation affected the spatial structure of cities?
10. How can land use planning promote compact development?
11. What is an urban heat island? A dust dome?
12. How has Curitiba, Brazil, been designed to incorporate sustainability?