Sustainable Cities: Urban Land Use and Management

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Sustainable Cities Urban Land Use and Management
G. Tyler Millers Living in the
Environment MATES Chapter 25
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Key Concepts

• Distribution of urban and rural populations

• Factors determining urban development

• Resource and environmental problems in urban areas

• Effects of transportation systems on urban growth

• Planning and controlling urban growth

• Making cities more sustainable and desirable

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Urbanization and Urban Growth

• Urban (metropolitan) area

• Rural area

• Village

• City

• Degrees of urbanization

• Urban growth natural increase and immigration

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Patterns of Urban Growth

• Increasing proportion of population

• Great increase in large cities (gt1,000,000)

• Increasing rapidly in developing counties

• Urban growth slower in developed countries

• Poverty in urban areas increasing (See Spotlight
  p. 663)

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Urbanization in the US

• Migration to large central cities

• Migration from cities to suburbs

• Migration from north and east to south and west

• Urban sprawl

• Spatial patterns of development (see Fig. 25-9 p.
  667)

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Major Urban Regions in the US
Fig. 25-6 p. 665
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Impacts of Urban Sprawl
Fig. 25-8 p. 666
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Urban Resource and Environmental Problems

• Air and water pollution waste management

• Reduction in vegetation

• Importation of food, energy, and materials

• Climate impacts urban heat island

• Noise pollution

• Impacts on surrounding rural areas

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Urban Areas Inputs and Outputs
Fig. 25-11 p. 669
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Urban Heat Island
Fig. 25-13 p. 670
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Transportation and Urban Development

• Individual transit

• Masstransit

• Buses

• Trains

• Automobiles(See Pro/Con p. 673)

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Urban Land-Use Planning and Control

• Land-use planning (See Case Study p. 677)

• Ecological land-use planning (See Solutions p.
  681)

• Property taxes

• Zoning

• Smart growth

• Urban growth boundary

• Cluster development (See Fig. 25-22 p. 682)

• Greenways

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Solutions Making Urban Areas More Livable and
Sustainable

• New cities and towns

• Ecocity (green city)

• Trees and climate-specific landscaping

• People-oriented

• People-involved

See Guest Essay p. 684