TW Flashcards
The ________ or _________ is the type and extent of development of the urban area and depends on the forms of the previous development
urban development pattern
The ______________ is denned as the spatial pattern of human activity at a certain point in time and is divided into two main categories of horizontal expansion or urban dispersion and the pattern of a compact city
pattern of physical growth or development or the urban form
__________ appears in the form of an increase in the city’s boundaries, or so-called “horizontal extensions”, and internal growth appears as the population’s internalization and the pattern of intensive growth
Exogenous expansion
One of the common issues with living in a city is _____
crime.
TYPE OF PROBLEM IN CITIES
Cities typically have serious difficulties in paying for basic services such as policing, public education, trash removal, street maintenance, and snow removal
Fiscal problems
TYPE OF PROBLEM IN CITIES
People who live amid crowding are more likely to experience stress and depression and to engage in aggressive behavior or be victimized by it.
Crowding
TYPE OF PROBLEM IN CITIES
Much urban housing is substandard, as this chapter’s opening news story illustrated, and characterized by such problems as broken windows, malfunctioning heating systems, peeling lead paint, and insect infestation
Housing
TYPE OF PROBLEM IN CITIES
In cities throughout the United States, men, women, and children live in the streets, abandoned vehicles or houses, cheap motels, or trailers, or living in someone else’s home temporarily.
Homelessness
TYPE OF PROBLEM IN CITIES
many people living in a relatively small area—is that many people need to travel to get to work or school and to visit stores, museums, and any number of other leisure-time settings.
Traffic and Transportation
TYPE OF PROBLEM IN CITIES
Traffic congestion and the sheer amount of traffic in cities also contribute mightily to ____. Traffic creates pollution from motor vehicles’ exhaust systems, and some cities have factories and other enterprises that also pollute.
Air Pollution
TYPE OF PROBLEM IN CITIES
Stress in turn impairs the mental health of urban residents. Much research finds that urban residents have worse mental health than rural residents.
Mental Health Problems
TYPE OF PROBLEM IN CITIES
Many city schools are housed in old buildings that, like much city housing, are falling apart. City schools are notoriously underfunded and lack current textbooks, adequate science equipment, and other instructional m
Public Education
Human Ecology and Environmental Concerns in Global Cities
Urban settings are very individualistic in nature and the sense of community that is very common in other areas is very rare to come across here. People are all concentrated on their own affairs paying little or no attention to their friends and neighbors.
Sense of community
Human Ecology and Environmental Concerns in Global Cities
Rapid urbanization, which strains basic infrastructure, coupled with more frequent and extreme weather events linked to global climate change is exacerbating the impact of environmental threats. Common environmental threats include flooding, tropical cyclones (to which coastal cities are particularly vulnerable), heat waves and epidemics.
Environmental threats
Human Ecology and Environmental Concerns in Global Cities
When it comes to both the provision of basic resources and resilience against environmental threats, the forecast is uneven for different groups of urban inhabitants. As the number of urban super-rich grows, many cities will also see increased numbers of urban poor.
Inequality
