Chapter 17

Question 1

Ecological footprint

Answer 1

The impact on the environment expressed as the amount of land required to sustain its use of natural resources

Question 2

Mixed use development

Answer 2

A single planned development designed to include multiple uses

Question 3

Mixed use development uses

Answer 3

Residential, retail, education, recreation, industrial, office space

Question 4

Transport oriented design

Answer 4

The creation of mixed use developments along train stations

Question 5

Smart growth policies

Answer 5

Policies with the intent to create sustainable communities by placing development in convenient locations and designing it to be more efficient and environmentally responsible

Question 6

New urbanism

Answer 6

Focuses on limited urban expansion while preserving nature and arable farmland

Question 7

New urbanism goal

Answer 7

Create a sense of place where residents can easily meet and engage with each other in welcoming places

Question 8

Slow growth cities

Answer 8

Where city planners have used smart growth policies to decrease the rate at which a city grows outwards

Question 9

Urban growth boundary

Answer 9

A boundary that separates urban land uses from rural land uses by limiting how far a city can expand

Question 10

Greenbelt

Answer 10

Ring of open land used to limit sprawl

Question 11

Mixed Income communities

Answer 11

Best of both worlds, low income and high income together, had single and multi family homes

Question 12

Regional planning

Answer 12

Planning conducted at the regional scale that seeks to coordinate the development of housing, transportation, urban infrastructure, and economic activities

Question 13

Infilling

Answer 13

Redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land

Question 14

Brownfields

Answer 14

Abandoned and polluted industrial sites

Question 15

Filtering

Answer 15

The process of neighborhood change in which the more wealthy groups vacate houses, passing them down to low income groups

Question 16

Zones of abandonment

Answer 16

Areas that have been largely deserted due to lack of jobs, decline in land values, etc.

Question 17

Redlining

Answer 17

A financial institution, such as a bank, refusing to offer loans on the basis of a neighborhoods racial or ethnic makeup

Question 18

Blockbusting/White Flight

Answer 18

Real estate practice that stirred up concern that african americans would soon move into a neighborhood

Question 19

Feminization of poverty

Answer 19

The increasing proportion of the poor who are women

Question 20

Urban renewal

Answer 20

Term associated with the nationwide movement that developed in the us in the 1950s and 1960s when cities were given massive federal grants to tear down and clear out crumbling neighborhoods and former industrial zones as a way to rebuild downtowns

Question 21

Urban renewal downside

Answer 21

Unfairly targeted low income neighborhoods and displaced many families

Question 22

Gentrification

Answer 22

Process by which middle class people move into deteriorated inner city neighborhoods and renovate houses

Question 23

Inclusionary zoning laws

Answer 23

Create affordable housing by offering incentives for developers to set aside a minimum percentage of new housing construction to be allocated for new families

Question 24

Land tenure

Answer 24

The legal right/ownership of the land

Question 25

Eminent domain

Answer 25

A government's right to take privately owned property for public use of interest

Question 26

Environmental injustice

Answer 26

Used to describe how communities of color and the poor are more likely to be exposed to enviormental burdens