Lecture 2A - Resilient Sustainable Cities

Question 1

What are the two pressures on cities?

Answer 1

Internal and External, Slow and Fast Burn, Exogenous (out of our control) and Endogenous (in our control)

Question 2

Example of Exogenous

Answer 2

Resource Constraints (petroleum, arable land, water) Climate Change, extreme events, population change and urbanization

Question 3

Example of Endogenous

Answer 3

Vulnerable infrastructure, Socio-demographic, Social and Human Capital, Urban Environmental Quality,

Question 4

What is ALR?

Answer 4

Agriculture Land Reserve

Question 5

Sustainable development

Answer 5

should be subject to the test of whether key aspects of our daily lives and the urban systems within which they play out can be continued indefinitely into the future from a social, environmental, and economic perspective

Question 6

Sustainable urbanization

Answer 6

represents the objective for managing the dynamics of future city development to achieve desirable environmental, social, economic and political-institutional outcome for the long term

Question 7

Resilience

Answer 7

is generally conceived as the ability of a system (e.g. city system) to absorb disturbance and reorganize to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedback