WorksheetsCollaborative City Project: Planning & Vocabulary Assessment
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 28mins
A student team creates a new eco-friendly transportation idea to reduce traffic in their city. This is an example of:
Hiring more workers
Creating a new solution to a problem
Copying another city's idea exactly
Advertising a product
Two student teams work together to design housing and transportation for the same neighborhood. This is an example of:
Competition
Collaboration
Scalability
Prototyping
A group designs a coffee shop mainly for college students and young professionals downtown. Who is their target market?
City officials
All residents
College students and young professionals
Construction workers
Students explain how their city business will make money, who it serves, and how it operates. This describes their:
Marketing strategy
Business model
Pitch deck
Zoning regulations
Residents, business owners, and city leaders all care about how a new park will affect them. These groups are called:
Entrepreneurs
Stakeholders
Target market
Revenue streams
A city project uses renewable energy and plans for long-term environmental impact. This shows:
Risk management
Sustainability
Economic impact
Innovation
Students redesign abandoned buildings into mixed-use spaces with housing and shops. This is an example of:
Zoning regulations
Urban development
Scalability
Prototyping
A business is created to provide affordable housing while still earning a profit. This is:
Innovation
Social entrepreneurship
Marketing strategy
Revenue stream
Before building a community center, students survey residents and hold town halls. This is:
Stakeholders
Community engagement
Risk management
Public-private partnership
Students research costs, location, and demand before starting a city project. This research is called:
Pitch deck
Feasibility study
Marketing strategy
Scalability
What is a disadvantage of being an entrepreneur?
You have more control over your work
You have a more flexible schedule
You do not always receive a regular paycheck
Your work schedule is always predictable
Roasted is a community-driven coffee shop that opened locally. They have 10 employees. They are
an example of a startup
an example of a small business
A business owned by only one person
Partnership
Franchise
Corporation
Sole Proprietorship
Carlos is planning to start a restaurant, he has already assessed the idea and has decided to move ahead with the....
What will the next step be?
Writing down a Business Plan
Hiring People
Buy the shop
Start selling food
Why do you need a business plan?
To raise capital
Gets everyone involved to focus on the same goals
Gives an objective look at what you are doing and why
It is required by law
Human made structures that are used and paid for by community and help it function?
Developments
City Services
Infrastructure
Civic Buildings
A comprehensive representation of a city showing streets,important buildings and other urban features compatible with the scale of the map.
Mixed Use Development
Zoning
City Map
Sprawl
The combination of different types of land use within a particular neighborhood
Commercial
Border
Mixed-Use Development
Edges
A building maintained and run by the local government
Mall
Grocery Store
Civic Building
Post Office
The local governing body of a city, county or town elected by its local residents
County Court
City Council
School Board
PTO
A large community made up of smaller communities, often characterized by more densely placed developments.
Village
Town
Suburb
City
______________ try to make cities safe, healthy and enjoyable places to live. They are especially concerned with public spaces that all citizens share, such as streets and parks.
Police officers
Teachers
City Planners
Mayors
____________ are boundaries between the city and its surroundings.
Edges
Blocks
Zones
Oceans
___________ is when cities spread out so far that they do not have clear edges. ____________ has become a major problem since the invention of the automobile.
White Flight
Sprawl
Density
Global Warming
____________ is not a public space
Pearland Town center
Post Office
County Courthouse
Emancipation Park
The design and construction of buildings on a parcel of land.
Residential Zone
Legend,Key
Land Use Map
City Map
What does the term "Urban Sprawl" refer to?
The planned development of urban areas
The reduction of urban areas
The spreading of a city and its suburbs over rural land at the fringe of an urban area
The growth of urban areas with significant governmental planning
What is meant by "Growth Without A Plan" in the context of urban development?
Development with detailed urban planning
Expansion of urban areas without pre-planned infrastructure
Reduction of urban areas due to lack of planning
Planned shrinking of urban spaces
What is a characteristic feature of urban sprawl regarding residential zones?
High population density
Predominantly apartment buildings
High percentage of single family homes
Mixed-use development
Which of the following is a common aspect of urban sprawl related to the layout of communities?
Close proximity of buildings
Car-independent communities
Buildings further from each other
High-rise commercial zones
Urban sprawl often leads to communities being dependent on what form of transportation?
Bicycles
Public transit
Cars
Walking
Sustainability focuses only on short-term profits and growth.
True
False
Zoning regulations help control how land is used in a city.
True
False
Scalability refers to a business’s ability to grow beyond its original size.
True
False
A student team creates a new eco-friendly transportation idea to reduce traffic in their city. This is an example of innovation.
True
False
Two student teams work together to design housing and transportation for the same neighborhood. This shows collaboration.
True
False
What is one challenge your city project might face while planning the construction of the city?
Choose one city-planning term from this assessment and explain how your team could use it in your Collaborative City Project.
Name 10 types of businesses our city needs or wants. Explain why you chose each one (e.g., barbers, grocery stores, and police department)
