Unit 6 Topic 11

Question 1

What are some challenges in urban sustainability?

Answer 1

Limited resources: There can be significant demands on natural resources

Pollution and environmental degradation: Air and water
pollution; loss of green spaces

Traffic congestion: Increased traffic; air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions

Poverty and inequality

Question 2

What are brownfields?

Answer 2

A property that is potentially contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants.

Question 3

How can brownfields affect urban sustainability?

Answer 3

-Can be very difficult to reuse or redevelop the property
-Can be very costly to cleanup the contaminated property
-Can bring new jobs, new housing or business opportunities, and the revitalization of urban areas

Question 4

What is placelessness?

Answer 4

The feeling that you are in the same place where you go because the landscape is homogenous (the same).

Question 5

What is a sense of place?

Answer 5

Refers to the emotional and psychological attachment that people have to specific places, as well as the meaning and values that they attach to those places.

Question 6

What is placemaking?

Answer 6

An aim to create public spaces that are functional, attractive, and meaningful to the people who use them.

Question 7

How do squatter settlements affect urban sustainability?

Answer 7

-Most vulnerable to natural disasters such as floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes.
-Very unstable architecture.
-High levels of pollution