Ch 23 Sustainable Cities Name ______

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1. Environmental and urban designers envision the development of more environmentally sustainable cities, called ______or ______. (548)

2. What is the name of one of the world’s most sustainable cities and where is it located?

3. Describe 3 environmentally sensible things that happen in Curitiba to make it a successful eco-city.

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b.

c.

4. What do the poor people of Curitiba receive?

5. ______is the percentage of people in a country or the world living in an urban area. (549)

6. Describe the two ways that urban areas grow.

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b.

7. List 3 ways rural people can be pulled to urban areas?

8. List 3 ways rural people can be pushed to urban area?

9. The proportion of the global population living in urban areas is ______.

10. What percent of the world’s people will live in urban areas by 2030? _____

11. The number of large urban areas is ______.

12. How many megacities are there? ____

13. Where is the urban population increasing most rapidly? ______

14. How many poor people live in crowded and unsanitary slums? ______

15. Between 1800 and 2006, the percentage of the U.S. population living in urban areas increased from ____ to ____. (550)

16. List the four phases of the population shift in the U.S.

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b.

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17. What were the world’s five most populous cities in 2006 and the five most populous ones projected for 2015? Fill-in the chart below from Figure 23-2.

Year / Most populous / Least populous
2004 / Tokyo
2015

18. Explain 3 urban environmental problems that have been reduced since 1920. (551)

19. When land is available and affordable, urban areas tend to ______outward and swallow up the surrounding ______.

20. Explain 2 consequences of urban sprawl.

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b.

21. “In a nutshell, urban sprawl is the product of ______

______. (552)

22. Which metropolitan area is the most “sprawled”? ______

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23. Why do some people prefer to live in sprawling suburbs?

24. Complete the chart by using the information from Figure 23-6 on page 553.

Natural capital degradation/ urban sprawl
Land & Biodiversity / Human Health Aesthetics / Water / Energy, Air, and Climate / Economic Effects

25. Urban areas can offer more ______and better education and ______, and can help protect ______by concentrating people. (553)

26. Describe two advantages of urbanization.

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b.

27. Describe two disadvantages of urbanization. (554)

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b.

28. Most urban dwellers are subjected to ______(555)

29. Sound pressure becomes damaging at about ______and painful at around ______. At 180 dbA it can ______.

30. Draw and label Figure 23-9, page 555 below.