Ch. 13 Urban Sustainability

new urbanism

• the activity or profession of determining the future physical arrangement and condition of a community, involving an appraisal of the present condition, a forecast of future requirements, a plan for the fulfillment of these requirements, and proposals for constructional, legal, and financial programs to implement the plan.
• A set of principles for community planning that focuses on strategies to encourage the development of sustainable, healthy communities.
• City planning done on broader geographic scales, generally involving multiple municipal governments
• A movement in urban planning to promote mixed use commercial and residential development and pedestrian friendly, community orientated cities. New urbanism is a reaction to the sprawling, automobile centered cities of the mid twentieth century.

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

city planning

• An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
• Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
• the study of the link between the physical and social dimensions of cities
• the activity or profession of determining the future physical arrangement and condition of a community, involving an appraisal of the present condition, a forecast of future requirements, a plan for the fulfillment of these requirements, and proposals for constructional, legal, and financial programs to implement the plan.

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-1

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

urban ecology

• Residential areas surrounding a city. Shops and businesses moved to suburbia as well as people.
• the activity or profession of determining the future physical arrangement and condition of a community, involving an appraisal of the present condition, a forecast of future requirements, a plan for the fulfillment of these requirements, and proposals for constructional, legal, and financial programs to implement the plan.
• An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
• the study of the link between the physical and social dimensions of cities

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

sprawl

• Residential areas surrounding a city. Shops and businesses moved to suburbia as well as people.
• An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
• Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
• the study of the link between the physical and social dimensions of cities

suburbs

• Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
• the study of the link between the physical and social dimensions of cities
• Residential areas surrounding a city. Shops and businesses moved to suburbia as well as people.
• An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

City planning done on broader geographic scales, generally involving multiple municipal governments

• regional planning
• smart growth
• city planning
• Urbanization

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

Urbanization

• the study of the link between the physical and social dimensions of cities
• the activity or profession of determining the future physical arrangement and condition of a community, involving an appraisal of the present condition, a forecast of future requirements, a plan for the fulfillment of these requirements, and proposals for constructional, legal, and financial programs to implement the plan.
• An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
• Residential areas surrounding a city. Shops and businesses moved to suburbia as well as people.

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

A set of principles for community planning that focuses on strategies to encourage the development of sustainable, healthy communities.

• regional planning
• Urbanization
• smart growth
• new urbanism

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-7