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What is cities spreading out?
Urban Sprawl refers to _________.
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What is increase in population, people wanting to leave the downtown area, and the need for more housing?
Give at least 2 reasons for urban sprawl.
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What is transit system?
This would be the best and most realistic way to cut down on traffic jams and pollution caused by the large increase in the number of cars in cities.
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What is urban core?
This is where you would find a skyscraper.
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What is on the urban fringe?
This is where you would find a suburb.
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What are mixed-use developments?
This is combining businesses and houses in the city to help cut down on urban sprawl.
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What are cars?
This invention help lead to even more sprawl.
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What are mixed-use developments; a transit system; a pedestrian-friendly downtown.
Give 2 solutions for dealing with urban sprawl.
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What are shopping malls, suburbs, small towns, movie theaters, schools, parks
Name 3 things you might find in an urban fringe.
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What is Columbus, New York City, or Charleston?
What is Vanceburg, Garrison, or Portsmouth?
Give an example and a non-example of a metropolitan area?
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What is a suburb?
This is a developed area at the edge of a city that is mainly homes.
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What are decrease in farmland, a longer commute to work, urban cores are becoming rundown and pollution?
Give 3 effects, both positive and negative, of urban sprawl.
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What is to stop development taking over farmlands?
___________ is the main purpose of growth boundaries (Portland's solution).
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What is rural fringe?
This is the ring of small towns and suburbs that surround a big city.
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What is wealthy regions have more large cities than poor ones; milder climates have more cities; mountain areas have very few urban areas.
Which are some reasons that some regions have more metropolitan areas than others?
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What is a metropolitan area?
This is a major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that surround it.
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What is urban cores are becoming rundown?
What effect is urban sprawl having on urban cores?
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What is replacing an abandoned factory with a new apartment building?
Give an example of infill. (Toronto's solution)
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What are tractors, mailboxes along the road, farms, small towns, open spaces, barns.
Name 3 things you would find in a rural fringe.
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What are habitats?
The home of animals is called their ___________
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What is a rural fringe?
This is the small towns, farms, and open spaces that lie just beyond a city's suburbs.
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What is habitat loss?
Which of these is a major concern of people who oppose urban sprawl? affordable housing, habitat loss, subsistence farming, loss of jobs, commercial farming, less crime
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There are many more people in Asia; The economy is shifting from farming to manufacturing and trade.
Give 2 reasons why Asian cities are growing so fast.
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What is 80%?
What percent of people live in a metropolitan area?
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What are buses and streetcars within a city that makes it easy to get around without a car?
Public transit systems are ______________.
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