CIties and Urban Land Use Section 7

Urban planning in US cities emphasis is on all EXCEPT

• building codes

• health codes

• land-use planning

• agribusiness projections

Zoning ordinances separate activities into different areas because not doing so can be

• unhealthy and inefficient

• safe and secure

• promising and uplifting

• profitable and hard-hitting

In European cities it is not unusual for

• single family homes with every large yards

• shops to be at the street level and apartments (homes) on upper levels

• wealthy people living in the suburbs

• urban poor living in the city center

Regional problems such as traffic flow, solid waste disposal and provisions of social services can best addressed when fragmented local areas

• consolidate governments institutions

• have the federal government pass all the laws

• address all issues on every third even year

• within an urban institution they form rural councils

Urban renewal programs allow governments to do all EXCEPT

• buy properties

• relocate residents and businesses

• build new roads and utilities

• allow old factories remain ungentrified

Demolishing inner city houses is to renovate them is an example of

• gentrification

• gerrymandering

• jurisdiction

• possibilism

When did the United States begin to actively urban plan?

• Civil War

• World War I

• World War II

• Korean War

Zoning ordinances encourage

• activities to be located all together

• spatial separation of land use

• mixed land use

• only gentrification

Critics say that class, racial and ethnic lines are reinforced by

• gerrymandering

• zoning

• mixed land use

• rural citizenship

The goal of smart growth is to produce a pattern of controlled development, which protects

• rural land use

• urban mixed landscapes

• gerrymandered zones

• suburbanization